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One social drawback of the smartphone is that I usually feel guilty to check notifications while I'm having a conversation with someone. Ever-so-occasionally I

One social drawback of the smartphone is that I usually feel guilty to check notifications while I'm having a conversation with someone. Ever-so-occasionally I'll miss an important contact and not get back to someone in a timely manner because I'm having a real face-to-face conversation. Smart-glasses (not even AR) could allow me the guilty pleasure of checking that notification without leaving the conversation. Though I suspect that someone could notice my gaze even briefly leaving eye contact. But wasn't that among the very things that gave people the creeps about Google Glass? "Are you recording me?" "Are you engaging with a social network while we are spending time together?"

andrecarini 5y ago
> But wasn't that among the very things that gave people the creeps about Google Glass? What gives me the creeps is the notion that we're expected to be constantly tethered to our digital communicators and supposed to synchronously spend energy processing/answering every single inane message thrown our way.
- kfprt 5y ago
  >What gives me the creeps is the notion that we're expected to be constantly tethered to our digital communicators and supposed to synchronously spend energy processing/answering every single inane message thrown our way. Never a free moment. Honestly sounds like slavery.
germinalphrase 5y ago
It will be fine. They will just paint over your eyes so it appears that you are maintaining eye contact. ‘Smoothing over social graces’ may be a critically important job to be done by the AR system.
- Animats 5y ago
  They will just paint over your eyes so it appears that you are maintaining eye contact. Already available from Microsoft.[1] [1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-uses-ai-to-make-our-eyes-look-at-the-webcam https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-uses-ai-to-make-our-eye...

andrecarini 5y ago

> But wasn't that among the very things that gave people the creeps about Google Glass? What gives me the creeps is the notion that we're expected to be constantly tethered to our digital communicators and supposed to synchronously spend energy processing/answering every single inane message thrown our way.

kfprt 5y ago
>What gives me the creeps is the notion that we're expected to be constantly tethered to our digital communicators and supposed to synchronously spend energy processing/answering every single inane message thrown our way. Never a free moment. Honestly sounds like slavery.

germinalphrase 5y ago

It will be fine. They will just paint over your eyes so it appears that you are maintaining eye contact. ‘Smoothing over social graces’ may be a critically important job to be done by the AR system.

Animats 5y ago
They will just paint over your eyes so it appears that you are maintaining eye contact. Already available from Microsoft.[1] [1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-uses-ai-to-make-our-eyes-look-at-the-webcam https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-uses-ai-to-make-our-eye...