Glassholes: The Next Generation
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2025
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I've been wearing Rayban glasses for years, but at this point I think I'm going to have to look for a different brand, because we're very quickly going to get to the point where anyone wearing them immediately becomes suspect.
You either die a start up or live long enough to become google.
~~Don't be evil~~
I’m not sure whether I’m more surprised at the fact that there is more than one user of the sunglasses, or that they both went to a massage parlour
My father and my brother in law both use the glasses*.
My BIL has a degenerative eye disease so this kind of technology could very well absolutely assist him in the not so far future. But my dad is just an absolute whore for bleeding edge consumer tech.
He also bought into Google Stadia for example.
How does a massage parlour help with your brother's eye issues?
It’s the only way to relax the eye socket :P
Stadia is good from a tech standpoint, the only problem was it was run by google
How are the glasses helping your brother? Do they allow him to read at distances, like street signs, or restaurant overhead menus?
I also have vision issues, and this type of technology has so much potential to help, but that’s never the focus for the tech bros, so they never deliver on their potential to help people.
Texted my sister!
So apparently he hasn’t replaced them yet and they are still broken.
They are VERY much still in an alpha state it seems.
My sister has a hope that they will be good at reading text or helping identify people later on in the technology but are still very much a WIP for a vision impaired tool.
Yeah. Thanks for the reply. Google glass had so much potential to help people like 10 years ago. But it was just tech bro bullshit and people making amateur porn. Sadly this time, I suspect it will be the same thing all over again.
I hope it helps your brother.
I’ll try and ask him about it.
I’ll be seeing him this weekend so I’ll try and lowkey ask him. It’s a somewhat recent diagnosis but I also know he broke his glasses swimming at the beach this past summer and only recently replaced them.
He doesn’t lose vision clarity per se, it’s more that his FOV in certain sections becomes much more limited before fuzzing out altogether.
I would not touch a combination of meta and luxottica with a 10m-pole. And I love gadgets.
Gettting caught should come with an instant ban from every one of these establishments and followed by a severe case of pink eye.
pretty sure you can get the last part without glasses
Who woulda thunk.