That my rule on all tech. Well not ten years.
I made a prediction way back in the mid-1970s – looooong before personal computers, internet, on-line everything, etc., – that we would have data ports implanted into our skulls, hard-wired into our brains. This is coming ever closer and closer to being true.
Personally, I think it is a cool invention. I heard about it several months ago and what do you know? It’s already out.
However, I don’t know if it’s going to be a usable product for me as I wear glasses already. Can people who already where glasses use this product?
In the end, I am not getting it, at least not for the next several years. It’s way too expensive and I’ll stick with the smartphone department for now.
Basically +1 to this:
Currently, it’s only on the right side. Apparently, that’s the dominant eye for most people, so Google is catering to them. Neither my wife nor I would be able to use it- she’s completely blind in that eye, and I’m damn close.
Granted, once other companies start making these, we’ll probably see more variation.
I’m not sure if you can use glasses in addition to this product, but while it currently is not lens-corrective AFAIK, there are plans to make lens-corrective versions of it in the future so that they would be your glasses.
Here’s a satirical site with video from cracked.com called 5 reasons why nobody will use google glass
Cracked.com shows you a commercial made by Google promoting glass, and then dissects it.
They make some of the obvious arguments:
- it’s unnecessary, and could be really,really embarrassing.
- it will cause traffic accidents by the millions.
- it’s distracting, at exactly the moment when you need to concentrate on something else.
and also, a point I haven’t seen before:
–There is a big disadvantage because it is voice-activated,and using it means that you are constantly talking to yourself. This is extremely annoying to others around you, like listening other people’s cell phone conversations. Plus, talking to your right eye is just plain dorky
GoogleGlass is dorky and invasive, but mark my words. In the next 5-10 years, these (or something like them) will be de facto necessities and those without them will be in the minority.
But now I have a highlighter ink smear all across my display!
I think the privacy concerns are a bit overblown. If you want to secretly tape something it’s already easy to do it with a smartphone jutting out of the top of your shirt pocket. Glass is more conspicuous and IIRC there is a light when you record stuff.
I think it’s going to be a solid hit. It’s not going to cost $1500 for consumers ; I am guessing it will be $500 or lower. I would definitely consider buying it at that price.
I know! When Apple releases the iEye, I intend to leap sideways, with great exuberance, across my yard.
There’s several guys on the tumblr linked above wearing glasses or sunglasses with it. It makes them look even more dorky.
The way to fight back against the Borgification of the world is to walk up behind every person you see wearing Google glass and plainly speak “search for kiddy pron” or “bombs/President/Al-Qaida” into the microphone. Let them explain that search to the FBI. Or their wives.
Somewhere online, I read that Google Glass can be activated without prompting by the wearer.
I thought I read that the Glass can analyze what you are looking at as you browse through a store, and some of that info can be provided to the store for their marketing analysis. (What displays work, and what displays don’t, etc.) This is, I guess, a way for Google to make money.
Has Google knuckled under to the Justice Department before?
You can get one tomorrow (one day only), April 15, for $1500:
I’m curious to see how many people buy it. Most of the news stories you hear about Google Glass are negative stories, about how people look stupid, or get in trouble for wearing them, or other things that aren’t ringing endorsements for it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the technology becomes more widespread in the future. Hopefully laws will keep up on when and where you can or can’t have Google Glass turned on. I’d be surprised if many people bought Google Glass tomorrow, I’m guessing it won’t be until more upgrades in the future, or another company comes out with a superior version and the price goes drastically down that the computer glasses become popular.
I’ve already got the ad campaign for them: The new iEye: Aye-aye! In Spanish speaking countries, of course: El nuevo iEye: Ai, ai, ai!
Bad; another way for the NSA to track people
I like the idea of a face mounted display. Lots of interesting possibilities - better FOV than a small smartphone without having to lug a gigantic screen around, augmented reality displays, etc.
Interesting possibilities, but infrequent usage. How often do you need a HUD? 99% of the time, all that stuff is useless.
On top of that, Google Glass doesn’t even have any of this. So it’s downgraded to completely useless, at least for me.
Is anyone thinking about the prosthetic possibilities? I would love to have something that can recognize people better than I can, and pop up a callout saying “This is Bob Smith”…