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andrewla ◴[] No.45141730[source]
Is anybody making smart glasses that are just a display? For me, the rest of the feature set verges on being anti-features. I'd much rather a very rudimentary display that my phone or another device could send relatively low bandwidth data to over bluetooth or some other protocol and build from there.

Having a camera or a mic on the glasses themselves seems like something I'd mostly want to avoid for privacy, and having a speaker just seems like gilding the lily when we already have a variety of headphones to choose from.

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1. caydenpiercehax ◴[] No.45146638[source]
Most people pursuing this include display + microphone.

The microphone lets you pick up voice, which is critical. Captions, translation, note-taking, etc. all benefit from this.

Even Realities G1 is this. Mentra is releasing a pair in first half of 2026 like this. Display + microphone.