Re:Why I'm Returning Google Glass
by rafcavallaro on Thursday July 18, 2013 @07:12PM
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Yup - all the cool kids are wearing stethoscopes!
Re:Why I'm Returning Google Glass
by BrainInAJar on Thursday July 18, 2013 @08:28PM
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And steel toed boots. And hard hats are the latest rage
I wear glasses. Years ago people thought all glasses looked silly. And they were, with giant thick lenses. Now people buy non-RX glasses to look cool, even.
I saw an animated sci-fi show from around 10 years ago (Denno Coil, Japanese anime) where in order to see the AR/VR world, you wore glasses. Every single kid wore glasses. You had to in order to see the VR/AR. Once something is common, the look factor doesn't matter.
I think we're just seeing people being disappointed that Reality is still decades/centuries/possibly impossible behind Fiction, and Fiction is only pulling further away as Reality gets better computers to render Fiction with.