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The demo video on the site is hilarious where it's showing news or texts right over the woman's face that he's supposed to be listening to. It's like when they show what's going on in Homer Simpson's brain when his wife is talking.
It lets you do the thing so many people do today- half listen and play with their phones at the same time- while seeming more polite.
I thought the same initially but that is demo’ng translation. She’s speaking in one language and the glasses are showing the English translation. Maybe not great UX either way since it is covering her face but that’s another story.
You would still be holding eye contact (mostly) with the speaker. If the text were above or below, you would see to be looking off into space, which may be worse from the speaker's perspective.