New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- It was way back in the 1960's that the foundational idea of smart glasses first came up. Pioneering computer scientist Ivan Sutherland experimented with a head-mounted display that looks bizarre by today's standards. In recent years, Google had a go with Google Glass, but it was a little ahead of its time, in addition to not being at all cool looking.

In more recent days, it's Mark Zuckerberg who has been saying that AI glasses are really the next platform for computing and "the genuine interface of the future". He sees AI-powered glasses as seamless, always-available AI assistants providing real-time contextual information, virtual assistance, and augmented reality experiences without the need for other devices lik...