At Google I/O on Wednesday, the company finally launched Android Wear, its new wearables and smartwatch software platform, and announced the availability of the first Android Wear smartwatches from LG and Samsung. Glass-wearing Googlers cheered in San Francisco's Moscone Center, and the tech press live-blogged, tweeted, and Instagrammed the heck out of the proceedings. We'll surely be writing about the day's reveals for the rest of the week, at least.

And yet, when I check my Facebook feed and limit it to the couple hundred real-world contacts that live within the Santa Fe-Taos, N.M. area -- you know, actual friends and acquaintances I've at least shaken hands with -- there's not a single mention of Android Wear or Google I/O.

While we in the tech media are all losing our minds, the vast majority of Americans who not only don't own a Tesla or Google Glass, but don't even know anyone who does, well... they couldn't care less.

Like many Crave readers, I'm an early adopter. I've tried out a few of the early wearables, both fitness trackers and smartwatches. It feels pretty inevitable to me that they're the next big thing, and Android Wear is the first bit of gravitas and integration with a major operating system that the concept needed to trickle into the mainstream.

Then again, a lot more people used to feel the same way about virtual reality... over 20 years ago.

The staggering majority of people who have noticed me wearing a smartwatch or fitness tracker over the past six or so months have not only expressed no curiosity about the devices but typically mocked me. It's all in good fun, of course. I'm not saying I've got problems getting ribbed by my friends, but they tend to playfully ask me when I plan to become a full cyborg, or have "those Google Glasses" drilled into my skull.