Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too

# Summary Meta and other tech companies are aggressively pushing camera-equipped and AI-powered "smart glasses" as the next computing interface, despite a track record of failed augmented reality products like Google Glass. The author argues these glasses are both culturally and fashionably dead-ends—tacky devices with thick frames driven by a handful of Silicon Valley executives who misunderstand technology's role in society, while the real appeal of products like Meta Ray-Bans centers on their hidden cameras rather than promised AI features.