Did you read the white paper? Are you just generally distrustful of new tech?

Vitalik (who understands things deeply, and who generally calls bullshit when he sees it, commented that orb scanning seemed creepy, but it seemed their device really was good at protecting privacy.)

According to their white paper, they DON'T scan your retina, or more precisely they don't upload any of that (unless you specifically opt in for helping to train their system.)

They provide anonymous identification which at your option you link to wallets, etc.

You say it is solving a problem that does not exist. But this is not at all accurate. All over the world the problem of identity (and identity theft) is a big thing. Indeed it is generally the worst in developing countries where one usually does not have the ability to tie assets or contracts to ones identity in reliable ways. So it is addressing a very pressing problem.

now I did not go deep enough to give this my thumbs up approval, but nothing in what you wrote pushes me in that direction.

it seems you just assume if it came from silicon valley then it must be evil, and this is funded the VCs, hence it is evil. Fine if that is your logic

but you didn't convince me.