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Smart Glasses are the Future, but Who Will Get There First?

Smart glasses offer the rare opportunity for a computer to be at eye and ear level and be embedded into an accessory a majority of folks already wear.

The problem is, much like Private Eye, the very first wearable computer, companies are still struggling to figure out how to make smart glasses look cool while also making them of use to us.


In this video, Becca takes a look at the history of smart glasses in order to figure out what might be coming next.


00:00 - Smart glasses from 1991 to 2021

02:13 - Why the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses are important

03:52 Ambient computing + smart glasses

05:17 Smart glasses you can buy now

06:24 Smart glasses to come

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