Welcome to Meta’s future, where everyone wears cameras

But the feature that ultimately sold the industrial designers on the project was a concept for an outward-facing screen on the headset. The screen could display video images of the eyes and facial expressions of the person wearing the headset to other people in the room.

Like the introduction of the personal camera, it is easy to imagine a near future scenario in which all amateur and professional workflows across creative industries are augmented by these tools, helping people to more clearly depict what is in their mind through common language and an ever expanding training corpus.

AR needs Smart Glasses to make sense, just as much as Smart Glasses need AR to make sense. With them, your whole field of vision becomes a screen on demand.