> If LinkedIn made AR glasses that told me who the person is I’m looking at (that I’m connected to on LinkedIn) and why/how we were connected, I’d buy that in a heartbeat.

The idea of wearing LinkedIn on my face makes my stomach churn, but while that's my personal reaction, is there a real world context you've found yourself in regularly enough that you've found yourself wanting such a product, or is it more like a conference thing? I can't even think of a physical space I've been in, ever, where there would be even one person that I'm both connected to on LinkedIn and don't know why.

Happens to me all the time. The company I work for has 1300 employees, and what I do means going cross-team pretty often, talking to people that I might have met once or twice a year ago. I speak to customer teams that pack consultants I might have worked with 10 years ago.

Generally speaking, I'm bad at remembering names. I'd buy a discreet "remind me who this is" device in a heartbeat.

Depends on what you do. But when I’m at events rather constantly (not big conferences) and people remember me, but I don’t remember them, it comes off as insulting.

VCs are a good example—founders will remember who they are for obvious reasons. But the ratio is way off—many more founders meet the same VC.

There are other industries where this happens as well.

Also, some people have problems recognizing faces in general.

> If LinkedIn made AR glasses that told me who the person is I’m looking

I could only hope that the EU would ban it ASAP if such a product existed making it unviable anywhere else. Except maybe China and such, should be pretty useful for the CCP enforcement agencies.

LinkedIn users volunteer their information to connected people. There is nothing wrong with that.

Why? It would only search the people I am connected to, not the whole planet.