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Boone Ashworth

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137 total appearances

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Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

I think my argument is just that's probably going to be less of a social advantage.

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

Because I'm trying to imagine being in a normal conversation with somebody...

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

not remembering their name and then having to wait for the glasses to tell me or like having a you know not knowing about a topic that they're talking about not wanting to sound stupid asking my glasses a question or whatever or just like even even with the display lenses like having a a little

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

thing, a little window in the bottom of your screen that you are looking at, people are going to be able to tell that you're not making eye contact, that you're not engaged with them in a face to face conversation.

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

And I just I just feel like there's going to be these weird tells that you are interacting with your glasses, not a person, you know,

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

Sometimes it's annoying when you're having a conversation with somebody and they pull out their phone and are texting away on their phone.

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

That feels like they're dismissing you in real life.

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

And I just think that this is in some ways going to be an easier way to do that.

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

And so I think it's just going to come down to how people how people deploy it in the moment.

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

If you're sitting there by yourself and you want to ask it a question or take a picture like that's totally fine.

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

If you're in a conversation with somebody in a room, I think it's going to get a little stickier.

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

I felt like I wasted 3.5 years for something that wasn't real.

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

But Boone, what do you think?

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

Yeah, 100 percent.

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

I mean, I one of the reasons I'm kind of excited to see where Google is going with its glasses is not because, you know, Google is like the good guy necessarily, but it's just it will be nice to have something that feels good.

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

like viable smart glasses that isn't made by Meta.

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

Just because Meta has, as Julie was saying, there's just this whole track record of privacy issues that have gone wrong.

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

I believe they're being sued right now because very sensitive videos had been uploaded to a Meta subcontractor who then saw videos that people had recorded on their glasses and didn't know that they were sharing.

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

So things like

Business Wars
Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | Google's Return | 3

People naked, people using the bathroom, people having sex like it.