yeso And idk about the scenario you describe with the birthday party. I’d personally want my actual face and eyes present in that situation. To me the goggles make it seem like the actual event is less important than the recording of it, you know?
To pushback slightly on this argument, is this really any more obtrusive than an old school shoulder mounted camcorder with the eyepiece and shit? The species seems to have survived the cognitive dissonance between being someone else being present and human at a social gathering and looking like some fuckin cyborg with a shoulder cannon aiming their Hallmark Greeting Card Laser at their loved ones in wide-eyed fascination. The goggles can even project out an image of a little kitty cat, on the outside surface, or perhaps an advertisement for your favorite products!
On the other hand, I don’t even know if I would not consider this to be equivalently obtrusive to a smartphone hovering in that weird grip in the bottom right of someone’s field of vision as they repeatedly glance at it. So I don’t know if I could actually say the Goggles are worse because I think recording anything of that nature is kind of weird. Snap a few pictures when your kid blows out the candles and get to cutting the cake already.
