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I cannot view the contents of the page as declinging the optional cookies sends me... back to the page where I need to decline optional cookies.

True professionals at meta.

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For me it says "unavailable" on all items. Is it the case for everyone? I'm wondering if it's because I'm based in France or if it's sold out.

When you load the page it says right at the bottom in a banner "Available now for pre-order in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom"

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I would be so uncomfortable having lunch with someone wearing these. Am I alone in that?

Maybe I haven't gotten far enough in the thread, but it seems like most people have forgotten that when Google came out with these, the people who were wearing them were called "glassholes".

Let's see how it runs with a decade's worth of water under the bridge. A lot of norms have changed since then. Still gives me the creeps.

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Operating such a device in Japan puts you in a legal gray area, and depending on your behaviour could result in unwanted police attention. They will respond to reports of such devices being used near spaces frequented by women or children. Act responsibly.

As it should be. I am not comfortable with the idea that creeps are just walking around taking photos of me or my family.

Well, don't go out into public then .. because others have every right to record what you are doing in public.

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These could be pretty incredible if the platform was more open. You get highly available image and voice input, and good voice output. Imagine if you could take a picture of anything, add a little note, have it filed away. Not necessarily an awesome Instagram picture, but just a picture of some mail you got, a tool you are putting away, any thing you want to record and save. Heck, why not a picture of your computer s…

My biggest disappointment is that the product seems to be centered around recording/taking pictures and no AR features are advertised.

The big question is what kind of development platform will it provide.

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> Imagine if you could take a picture of anything, add a little note, have it filed away. Not necessarily an awesome Instagram picture, but just a picture of some mail you got, a tool you are putting away, any thing you want to record and save. Heck, why not a picture of your computer screen? Pair that with quickly available audio transcriptions and you can also dictate anything, thoughts, small notes, information as…

I am currently in the middle of rebuilding a pair of 6.2L small block Chevrolet engines. By a factor of six these are the largest engines I've ever worked on, and the rebuild is far more extensive than anything I've attempted before too. During the teardown, part of my process (let's not dignify it with "workflow") has been photographing the incredible amount of crap that's been bolted to the engines as I remove piec…

Do you really want to bloody your knuckles wrenching with sunglasses on? I would last maybe 20 minutes before frustratedly throwing them at a wall... unless of course you are doing engine teardown out in the driveway.
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