Smartglasses. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Axrxax Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. More than a decade ago, pricey smart glasses that allowed people to snap photos, text and browse the web generated a lot of buzz but also resistance. People who wore Google Glass in 2014 faced backlash over fears that the smart glasses, priced at $1,500, would secretly record people or make human interactions socially awkward. Two years later,