I just want the ability to put on a lightweight pair of glasses and have it remind me who people are.

Ideally by consulting a local database, made up of people I already know / have been introduced.

And yet while this capability would be life-changing, and has been technically possible for a decade or more, yet it was one of the first things banned/removed from APIs.

I understand privacy concerns of facial recognition looking up people against a global database, but I'm not asking for that. I'd be happy to have the burden of adding names/tags myself to the hashes.

I'd just like to be able to have what other people take for granted, the ability to know if you've met someone before (sometimes including people you've known for years).

This is why you can never trust any proprietary tech by a tech giant.

It's unfortunately a relatively hard optics thing to make reasonably working projectors into glasses, or the tiny OLED ones.

10 years ago I'd have settled for this if it only worked on Game Of Thrones characters.