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I think AR would be a great addition but this is categorically wrong. Look at the top post in this thread. Plus, in the wild I have encountered people wearing these things taking calls, taking pictures, asking questions.

There have been at least five AR glasses that I can think of and this is only one that anyone really uses. So, no.

How does AR help anything? What problems does AR solve? At least with face camera + Clearview I could become the world's greatest politician / bounty hunter.

Actually nevermind I saw this sick demo on Reddit of an AR putting assistant but I think they had to strap a depth camera on the device. So AR means mini golf pro?

A phenomenal use case that would be enabled by simple AR is overlays for signs in foreign language and "subtitles" for foreign languages. This would be incredible during travel. Much better than pulling your phone out to look at signs, menus etc.

The “subtitles” could also serve as IRL Closed Captioning for folks who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Okay, so a nice hearing aid / babel fish. My mom might like these.

it helps keep want to develop for them or wear them at all

They have audio AR, which is sufficient for many use cases.

Is audio AR just headphones?

Yes, on the hardware side. You need some TTS and notification stuff on the software side. (like airpods, which will read you text messages and allow you to respond using siri)

Yeah. Glasses with speakers are okay, but they need to stop trying to push it as a new product line. It'll take a phone call and a promise of payment to China and we'll easily have glasses duck taped to a small in-ear headphone/with mic.

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