{"id":3422,"date":"2016-05-04T20:50:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T12:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/04\/where-smart-glasses-fit-into-a-world-with-oculus-rift-and-hololens\/"},"modified":"2016-05-04T20:50:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T12:50:12","slug":"where-smart-glasses-fit-into-a-world-with-oculus-rift-and-hololens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/04\/where-smart-glasses-fit-into-a-world-with-oculus-rift-and-hololens\/","title":{"rendered":"Where smart glasses fit into a world with Oculus Rift and HoloLens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Epson-9\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzA0L2EyL0Vwc29uOS4yNzE5Ni5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk1NzV4MzIzIwplCWpwZw\/e73ff698\/6c0\/Epson-9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Where+smart+glasses+fit+into+a+world+with+Oculus+Rift+and+HoloLens&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F04%2Fepson-bt-300-smart-glasses%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F04%2Fepson-bt-300-smart-glasses%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">It&#8217;s a tough time out there for smart glasses. Far from igniting a robust market for connected headgear, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/project-glass\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Google Glass<\/a> did very much <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/04\/01\/google-glass-public-image\/\">the opposite<\/a>, cementing in the public consciousness the idea that smart glasses are weird, creepy and only worn by uberdorks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As a result, the whole category \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/28\/google-glass-2-revealed\/\">including Glass <\/a>\u2014 has pivoted toward the enterprise market, where the fashion concerns are tiny to nonexistent. That&#8217;s given smart glass makers like <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/12\/30\/epson-moverio-bt-200-review\/?utm_campaign=&amp;utm_context=textlink&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=\">Epson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/01\/09\/ces-2015-google-glass-smart-glasses\/\">Vuzix<\/a> some needed hope. While the goal remains to eventually create designs that are indistinguishable from regular glasses, it&#8217;ll be hard to get there if there aren&#8217;t clear use cases for smart glasses today. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/04\/epson-bt-300-smart-glasses\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/moverio\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Moverio<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/wearables\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Wearables<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/smart-glasses\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Smart Glasses<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/epson\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Epson<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/P6YzMk3wOvM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a tough time out there for smart glasses. Far from igniting a robust market for connected headgear, Google Glass did very much the opposite, cementing in the public consciousness the idea that smart glasses are weird, creepy and only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/04\/where-smart-glasses-fit-into-a-world-with-oculus-rift-and-hololens\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2669,2667,2668,725,1506],"class_list":["post-3422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-epson","tag-moverio","tag-smart-glasses","tag-tech","tag-wearables"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}