The project was seen as a precursor to more flexible and less overt forms of wearable computation and surplus capture. John Hanke described its familiar shape in the form of eyewear as suitable for "the early adoption phases" of wearable technology in much the same way that the first automobiles resembled horse-drawn buggies. In other words, the "glasses" were intended to disguise what was in fact unprecedented: "Ultimately we will want these technologies, wherever they are on your body, to be totally optimized based on the job they're doing, not on what is more socially acceptable at that first moment of creation, just because it reminds people of something they've seen in the past."

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 488