The Microsoft glasses might be bigger, but they look a lot cooler

If you regularly hang out in 1970s discos, then yes, they look cool.

None of these people have got it yet. If you wear glasses, you’ve already made a style choice, and a lot of factors come into play - your personal preferences, shape of your face, what your better half thinks, stuff like that. If you don’t wear glasses, the chances are that you have sunglasses. Again, you’ve got a massive choice, and, again, you’ve made decisions about what fits your face. The problem with both these two - Sony‘s and Microsoft’s offerings is that the styling has come from some bizarre notion that we’ll all be cool with this kind of styling, because SciFi cinema tells us that The Future looks like this.

Smart glasses need to be indistinguishable from normal glasses. You shouldn’t look like a reject from a William Gibson book, or part of an ELO tribute band. If you wear glasses, they should discreetly fix to existing frames.

I was expecting this thread to open with something much more failsome than the developer edition of a product that's no worse than Google Glass.

The point being, you don't wear these in public, they are designed for working / relaxing, not walking around the neighbourhood.

If we're still talking about the Sony specs, the demo video suggests they very much do expect you to wear them in public. Admittedly in the footage there seem to be a lot less people around than you'd expect but that's pretty much what they were doing.

Microsoft's Hololens, in contrast, is definitely designed to be used in very specific contexts not as a general 'wear all day' tool. Which is why I think it has more chance of actually getting some traction than Google Glass or Sony's efforts.

Ability to ‘shoot yourself’ removed from Sony VR demo
http://www.gamesradar.com/ability-shoot ... y-vr-demo/

Why include it in the first place?