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The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

The trouble is, half the cool shit that AR can do requires some sort of optical sensor to pull off. If you want it to be anything more than just a smaller cell phone closer to your eye.

And if course they were compelled to hook it up to their mass surveillance network...