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If the tech is mostly in the glasses temples, I would prefer to have something that attaches to my existing glasses. I have prescription glasses and a big head, tried the Even G2 smart glasses and the available frames set just too small for me

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We did consider that, but it's a bit hard to fit all the electronics well and distribute the antennas optimally and keep that consistent across people and glasses. Best to have a predictable device we can engineer to the needs of this application!

Does it work firing up from the neck? Could you do a necklace style one?

Because this is an input device, I would love literally any form factor other than glasses. Smartglasses had a stigma back in 2012 when I was making them out of duct tape and beagleboards. Behind the head, in the same format as bone conduction headphones (even if there are sensor wings protruding forwards) would be so much better. In fact, combining this with bone conduction would make for a full silent and internal communication device.

+100 on this! My choice of glasses (and prescription) has nothing to do with my choice of how to talk to my computer. Don't risk failure just because you make them depend on each other.

This isn't any different than getting your lenses put in a VR set. The price of new lenses from an online glasses store isn't too bad, especially if you can afford $500 smart glasses, and now you don't have to worry about a big bulky thing that may fall off your existing glasses.

Yeah it is, because now the typing glasses are an appliance, not just your regular glasses. This makes sense for VR headsets, but it's a large part of how popular Google Glass is today.

GP is saying their choice of the glasses they want to wear all day every day is nothing to do with their choice to have something transcribe words they mouth, the latter shouldn't decide or significantly restrict the former.

Yeah, my glasses are a substantial part of my personal style and I'd be sad to have to go back to something generic looking. It's been a minus with other smart glasses as well.

Also I need to wear safety glasses with side shields frequently and would really rather be able to integrate there. Particularly relevant here since that's also in noisy environments where regular speech recognition struggles.

Thank you for bringing this up, as a fellow big head person I struggle to find 'decent' glasses that dont pinch my head.

I was thinking about the even G2 right up to this point.

What you said 100%, we are brainiacs overhere so our CPU is large

I concur!

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