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Google Glass is still around and just got its first update in nearly three years
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Re: Google Glass is still around and just got its first update in nearly three years
#22If there are any Googlers around here: I'm a medical researcher from Australia and we had really encouraging preliminary results with Glass in operating theatres. We'd love to continue the work but need to be able to buy/acquire about a dozen units. We've tried reaching out to Google via their Glass for Work page, but didn't get a reply.
Our pilot study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26992465
Re: Google Glass is still around and just got its first update in nearly three years
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I don't have to leave my area to go look at the computer every time I need to look up something," Is a little more than just a bar code scanner. Considering how important some seemingly minor assembly problems have been this is probably a lot more valuable than you might think as it reduces people guessing vs. going to the effort to look something up.
That's not a glasses advantage though. The smartphone in my hand does that (my smartphone, an overpowered barcode scanner)
> in my hand
That's the important part you're missing.
Re: Google Glass is still around and just got its first update in nearly three years
#24I tried GG when I was working for Google at some event where the team came to your building and let interested people try it. I was quite enthusiastic about it before trying it, but actually using it for 5 minutes really turned me off. I think that this might be because I don't normally wear glasses. I found looking slightly askew to focus on the presented info was awkward for me (eg, maybe it was natural to somebody who wears bifocals). I also found the weight a bit unnatural.
To me, Android Wear was a much better fit for what I wanted from GG. Eg, notifications, navigations, music controls, email/text without having to pull out (and unlock) my phone. (and I hadn't worn a watch for 15-20 years before getting my first Android Wear device).
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#25Nice! I really like Google Glass, the only issue I have with it is the reduced battery life. I wish there were a supported way to replace the battery. Or is there?
I really like the Google Glass idea too, the only problem I have with it is when other people use it.
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Re: Google Glass is still around and just got its first update in nearly three years
#26The last two responses in this thread - industry applications (operating theatre) and medical use (double vision) - are the things Google should have focused on all along.
A tiny floating screen in the corner of your eye is most useful when:
1. You can't readily access the screens that are in your pocket or desk.
2. You need to look at a screen and the world around you at the same time. The screen may possibly overlay on the world around you.
Re: Google Glass is still around and just got its first update in nearly three years
#27Yeah, mine suddenly started working again. It got stuck in a weird loop a few months ago. I don't think I have an update but I think they fixed an oauth bug.
Re: Google Glass is still around and just got its first update in nearly three years
#28Three years later and I still find the idea obnoxious and pandering to the unseen apparatus of encroaching social control.
Re: Google Glass is still around and just got its first update in nearly three years
#29I'm not sure a lot of people actually got to try google glass. I'm loving (and developing in) VR, and interested in actual AR. Glass was a deadend as soon as I actually put one on. I found it to be pretty much as if you were holding up a smartwatch beside one eye, that you could turn your eye and look at in focus. There is no overlay of the real world. You are either looking at watch beside your eye or the real world…
The reaction when we had one at work was "well this is kinda crap, doesn't do much, and there's no way to wear it without looking like an asshole".
It was clever, but it was basically the worst possible experience at everything it did for most people.
I don't doubt the utility of it for niche tasks or users but as a general consumer product it was never going to take off
Re: Google Glass is still around and just got its first update in nearly three years
#30Three years later and I still find the idea obnoxious and pandering to the unseen apparatus of encroaching social control.
I don't think it's that much of an issue if each person has a video record of stuff they've seen. I mean, we already have this in a squishy lossy human way.
Where I do think it's an issue is when every person's viewpoint is piped back to the Borg mothership.