Where Are My Smart Glasses?
A Review of All 6 Smart Glasses On The Market
I have been waiting six years for smart glasses.
This is not an exaggeration. As a high schooler, I somehow convinced my parents that I had a legitimate business use for Google Glass and really needed a pair.
It ended up sucking. Perhaps if it didn’t suck, I could have come up with an app to sell over their ecosystem, but it did suck. The screen was highly visible — a plus! — but had so few pixels that it wasn’t able to display more than a few words. This made it useless for just about everything, including previewing text messages.
A little while after that, I stumbled upon the LaForge website. The pictures make them seem like the smart glasses of my dreams. To a bystander, they look like normal glasses. To someone wearing them, they’re a HUD for real life.
But… six years later, and they’re still not in production. Their beta is publicly available, but I’ve messed with enough beta hardware to know I’m not cut out for it. So the question is: when am I going to get smart glasses? When are you going to get smart glasses?
Well, if any of us are going to get smart glasses anytime soon, here’s where they’re going to come from:
