"Google Glass was just being field tested. It was not commercially available.
It had obvious problems giving users headaches and making people uncomfortable."
"I used Google Glass. It didn’t cause headaches for me but the screen size was pathetic, I described it as like holding your phone at arms length to look at it, that’s how big the screen was. Except that’s with phones circa 2013, modern phones are bigger.
You could use it for an autocue for a news reporter or weather forecaster or something, if you cared about them seeing the autocue without needing to look into the camera. But most of the suggested use cases of training brain surgeons by showing the surgeon’s-eye-view of the procedure is nonsense because the picture size was far too small.
And when I tried to play a YouTube video it overheated and had to shut down."
I almost got caught by this one, I really (thought) I wanted to get one at the time but figured I'd wait till there was "a little more content".... Really dodged an expensive bullet with that hesitation
#18 Some people's lives were so messed up before 2020, that when it hit they were like "Finally everyone else knows what it's like, when life hands you nothing but crap" and finally felt a little sympathy from those knocked off their high-horses.