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Headphones for your eyes.

That's the product and its inevitable in some form or another. Its just too early

People don't like stuff on their face. People wear contacts or get surgery to avoid wearing glasses. People don't like stuff on their face. I paid for college working in the eyeglass industry and it's nearly universal that people "wish they didn't have to wear glasses". People don't like stuff on their face.

> People don't like stuff on their face.

If there's one thing we were able to learn with 100% certainty over the last couple years, it is this. I still think it'll have to be transparent, or at least Google Glass like, to achieve mass adoption.

I didn't like headphones before AirPods. It might take a long time... maybe it's even a neuro plug at some point. I don't know but people will want to hijack their vision for sure.

Not the same. Many people have no problem wearing a hat either. Your _face_ is different. Maybe it's a biological protection mechanism, but _it is different_.

> Headphones for your eyes.

"I need a SinoLogic 16, Sogo-7 data gloves, a GPL stealth module, one Burdine intelligent translator, and Thomson eyephones."

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