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there are millions in the wild ... so maybe not super popular but it's above penetration of anything you would call a niche product

by zmmmmm 1y ago

jsheard 1y ago
Millions in the wild, but mostly sitting in a drawer. https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/metas-ray-ban-smart-glasses-fail-to-catch-on-31f6ba4e https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/metas-ray-ban-smart-g...
- zmmmmm 1y ago
  That's about gen 1, gen 2 is vastly more successful
  - postexitus 1y ago
    Is it? I've seen zero people wearing them in central london.
    - neilv 1y ago
      I haven't noticed anyone wearing them in real-life, despite walking every day in a concentration of university/college campuses (Harvard Square, USA, and surrounding neighborhoods, sometimes including MIT). I've only noticed some influencers wearing them in Web videos, where they look prominent, like I should also be able to recognize them in-person. Maybe people are only wearing them at home or in the office? Maybe it's mostly a California techbro regional thing? Maybe I'm not paying enough attention. I will start consciously looking for them.
      - pesus 1y ago
        I've ever seen them in the California Bay Area either. I don't go into the office for my current job, though, so maybe there are some tech bros out there wearing them?
asadotzler 1y ago
That's a pretty small fraction of the population. There are about 50M foldables in use, probably 30X as many in use as the Meta Ray-Bans, and I see one of those every couple of years and the only pair of Meta Ray-Bans I've seen in the wild has been a blind friend who got the first generation early because of its accessibility capabilities.
saberience 1y ago
I got given them for free and I've never once turned them on. There's no way in this world I would ever wear a Meta produced personal life tracking device on my face (or anywhere else for that matter)

4 ms·

there are millions in the wild ... so maybe not super popular but it's above penetration of anything you would call a niche product

by zmmmmm 1y ago

there are millions in the wild ... so maybe not super popular but it's above penetration of anything you would call a niche product

jsheard 1y ago
Millions in the wild, but mostly sitting in a drawer. https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/metas-ray-ban-smart-glasses-fail-to-catch-on-31f6ba4e https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/metas-ray-ban-smart-g...
- zmmmmm 1y ago
  That's about gen 1, gen 2 is vastly more successful
  - postexitus 1y ago
    Is it? I've seen zero people wearing them in central london.
    - neilv 1y ago
      I haven't noticed anyone wearing them in real-life, despite walking every day in a concentration of university/college campuses (Harvard Square, USA, and surrounding neighborhoods, sometimes including MIT). I've only noticed some influencers wearing them in Web videos, where they look prominent, like I should also be able to recognize them in-person. Maybe people are only wearing them at home or in the office? Maybe it's mostly a California techbro regional thing? Maybe I'm not paying enough attention. I will start consciously looking for them.
      - pesus 1y ago
        I've ever seen them in the California Bay Area either. I don't go into the office for my current job, though, so maybe there are some tech bros out there wearing them?
asadotzler 1y ago
That's a pretty small fraction of the population. There are about 50M foldables in use, probably 30X as many in use as the Meta Ray-Bans, and I see one of those every couple of years and the only pair of Meta Ray-Bans I've seen in the wild has been a blind friend who got the first generation early because of its accessibility capabilities.
saberience 1y ago
I got given them for free and I've never once turned them on. There's no way in this world I would ever wear a Meta produced personal life tracking device on my face (or anywhere else for that matter)