Scobleizer on smart glasses at national parks: identify peaks, plants and full starfield
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-03
Responding to skepticism about AR/smart glasses, tech commentator Robert Scobleizer sketched a concrete use case: wearing smart glasses in a national park, they'd name surrounding mountain peaks, give mini historical tours, identify plants, and reveal the full starfield overhead—far beyond the few thousand stars visible to the naked eye at night atop Yosemite.
He concedes taking the glasses off for pure analog reality matters, but argues the augmented experience 'has no alternative,' quipping skeptics 'can always join the Amish'—consistent with his claim that what's coming is 1,000x better.
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