{"id":579182,"date":"2026-08-09T04:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T04:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/579182\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T04:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T04:36:10","slug":"weekly-poll-results-smart-glasses-are-a-solution-looking-for-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/579182\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly poll results: smart glasses are a solution looking for a problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants are spending tons of R&amp;D money on building new smart glasses that fill various categories. However, based on the results from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/weekly_poll_are_you_using_smart_glasses-news-73968.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last week\u2019s poll<\/a>, all of them are solutions looking for a problem.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome couldn\u2019t be more clear \u2013 the vast majority of voters are not using smart glasses. To be fair, regional availability is preventing some people from trying them out. But even then it\u2019s clear that most people haven\u2019t found a compelling use-case for them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gsmarena_001.png\" alt=\"Weekly poll results: smart glasses are a solution looking for a problem\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Less than 5% of voters report that they are actively using smart glasses. Some like them as a replacement for headphones, others lean into their head-mounted display capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Tech companies that are building smart glasses have an uphill battle ahead of them \u2013 in the comments, many people report that they find glasses with cameras to be an invasion of privacy and even go as far as calling them \u201ccreepy\u201d. That\u2019s something that Google Glass struggled with years ago and it remains a major hurdle to adoption.<\/p>\n<p>So, it\u2019s not only that these people won\u2019t buy smart glasses, but they will also shun anyone who does \u2013 smart glasses have a serious reputation problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tech giants are spending tons of R&amp;D money on building new smart glasses that fill various categories. However,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,125],"class_list":["post-579182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}