if Google Glass had come out later you can be guaranteed that it would've been billed similarly. There is a formula here : Make a product with a semi-useless p

if Google Glass had come out later you can be guaranteed that it would've been billed similarly. There is a formula here : Make a product with a semi-useless privacy-intrusive camera, when the audience balks at having a camera on it you say "it's AI!" -- suddenly the people in front of the camera seem to stop caring that they have a new angle of the panopticon to avoid. It's the damnedest thing. my gut feeling is that trick would have worked to make the Glass palatable -- similar tricks worked for the current iteration of VR sets : 'It's okay that the device has six cameras pointed at you recording to god knows where, they're used for tracking.' the trick being that the tracking included is unlikely to only be your hands/posture/VR-significant things if it stands to produce company X or Y a revenue stream.