I'm not really an Apple fan nor am I going to buy this thing, but this seems like a criticism that goes away as soon as everyone does it.

We all look stupid staring at our black rectangles, with notches at the top, with little headphone stems sticking out of our ears. It looks stupid at first and then you get over it

Yeah, new things will look weird until culturally appropriated. Two things that seem to differentiate AR/VR stuff from previous tech

1. They are more "worn" than "used"

2. They conceal your face while wearing

So maybe cultural acceptance might take a while...

EDIT: typos

> We all look stupid staring at our black rectangles

Do we really though? Reading a newspaper or book would be stupid as well

People said this about voice assistants as well, we would get used to talking to them in public after a little while. I've still not seen anyone speaking to Siri or Google in public. The only thing most people use them for is setting timers when cooking ...

The black rectangle form factor is the same as a notepad. Nothing about it screams "I'm completely out of touch with my reality"

Yeah, saw the WSJ review with that video, but in all fairness, I think only someone who doesn't cook would think that cooking with this thing on your head might be a good idea.

> It looks so stupid that I couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

I'm so old I remember the N-Gage 1st gen being ridiculed for the "sidetalking" feature.

Now we have millionaires on TV talking to their phones like it's piece of bread they are about to take a bite of and nobody bats an eye.

I think thats the author of the wsj article

Maybe, but if you had an app that allows you to define kitchen + appliances. You could eaily made a game/app that tells you what to do. Take stuff out off fridge, cut it up... ping your virtual pot needs stirring, go back to cutting, ping turn off the oven... and so on.

Sort of virtual assistant.

That could be useful to people to avoid burning or forgetting stuff.