Folks have been predicting that the next big shift in computing will be onto glasses that we wear and away from our phones.

The tech just hasn’t been there yet and most of the devices that do this are heavy clunky and hot

Meta is investing billions to get out ahead of this shift and to own the entertainment and data (and thus advertising) layers that sit on top of the real world through these glasses

The rumor mill is abuzz that Facebook finally making a play for it in the next set of smart glasses after a few years of sticking to VR headsets and audio/camera only glasses

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adrr 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Why do they call the smart glasses when they just send everything to the smart phone? Nothing is done on device.

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delecti 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

They're also called smartwatches, when most of them are pretty useless without a phone. Even if they offload everything to the phone, they're still much "smarter" than normal glasses, which just sit there doing nothing but correcting vision.

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withinboredom 5 days ago | parent [-]

You know, I never thought of this until I took my phone into a repair shop. I was just like “give me a call, I have my watch.”

Two seconds after I walked out … I was like, “oh, that’s not going to work…” so I just sat around for an hour.

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adrr 5 days ago | parent [-]

If you have wifi calling enabled on your mobile account and your watch has wifi connection, you can receive calls to it. Or you can get a watch that has mobile data connection.

	▲	withinboredom 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		You still need the original phone to forward the call. If it is out of commission, nothing will happen.

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wmeredith 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's a marketing term not a technical term

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actionfromafar 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Facebook is trying so very hard to be Innovative Online Industries.

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Mr_Eri_Atlov 5 days ago | parent [-]

"I get that reference."

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Octoth0rpe 5 days ago | parent [-]

And that's the whole book

	▲	actionfromafar 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		No deep insights there, but it was a beautiful romp while it lasted :)

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sqircles 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The "old man yelling at the sky" part of me can only hope the side effects of something like this gaining traction might be that physical-world advertisements fade away.

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wmeredith 5 days ago | parent [-]

I'd love ad-blokcer in my glasses. Replace every billboard I see with fine art.

	▲	sunrunner 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They’ve actually had this cool feature at art galleries and museums for quite a while now ;)
	▲	privatelypublic 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Or dad jokes.