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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

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Post by derefr »

WhatIsDukkha wrote: post #17

I'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 blurry screen was always kind of off to the side and annoying when wearing it.

That sounds better than the alternative, actually—I can only imagine how distracting it would be if there was text that was clear and crisp floating in my field of vision even when I was trying to look at something else.

Re: Google Glass is still around and just got its first update in nearly three years

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Post by derefr »

Ajedi32 wrote: post #19
WhatIsDukkha wrote: post #17

I'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…

Yeah, I always got annoyed when the media kept referring to Glass as "AR", when in reality it was mostly just a quick way to get notifications and such without pulling your phone out of your pocket. If Glass counts as AR, so does my smartwatch.

"Notifications" is a bit of an under-sell for what a crappy text-screen that's by your eyeball can accomplish, when combined with a camera and microphone and bluetooth-paired to a phone.

Glass could (can?) do the Word Lens "translate what I'm looking at" thing better than a phone can—not in visual fidelity, but in fluency of use. It can also just let you read a book on the bus without holding your arm in front of your face. Neither of those are strictly AR, but nor are they things you could accomplish with a pager.

Re: Google Glass is still around and just got its first update in nearly three years

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Post by bobf »

WhatIsDukkha wrote: post #17

I'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…

I tried Glass but returned it after a few weeks. It failed for me because it didn't provide enough value for the hassle it added. The main pain points for me were that it wasn't particularly comfortable, had poor battery life, didn't offer enough useful features (at the time at least), and that a large amount of people I met in a day wanted thought they should ask about it, want to try it, etc.

Re: Google Glass is still around and just got its first update in nearly three years

#44

Post by dang »

nextlevelwizard wrote: post #33
pavement wrote: post #28

Three years later and I still find the idea obnoxious and pandering to the unseen apparatus of encroaching social control.

Do you always try this hard to sound smart?

Please don't reply to a poor comment by making the thread even worse—especially not with personal attacks, which we ban people for.

Re: Google Glass is still around and just got its first update in nearly three years

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Post by lloeki »

hammock wrote: post #14
Retric wrote: post #11

Earlier 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)

> manufacturing industry

> in my hand

Gloves, dirty and thick.

Re: Google Glass is still around and just got its first update in nearly three years

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Post by spullara »

whyagaindavid wrote: post #45

On a lighter note, people complain about google over updates. See they are not bad!

People are incorrectly complaining about google when they should really be complaining about the OEMs. You can blame google for that business model but generally they aren't deciding when Android phones get updates.

Re: Google Glass is still around and just got its first update in nearly three years

#48

Post by rullelito »

dsl wrote: post #18

If anyone from the Glass team happens to read this: A very good friend of mine has an uncorrectable problem that basically gives him double vision all the time. I got Glass for him as a gift, and it changed his life. Emails, text messages, directions, all over a single eye so it was clear. Thanks for pushing a much needed update so he can start using them again.

Can't he just have a patch?

Re: Google Glass is still around and just got its first update in nearly three years

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Post by [deleted] »

dsl wrote: post #18

If anyone from the Glass team happens to read this: A very good friend of mine has an uncorrectable problem that basically gives him double vision all the time. I got Glass for him as a gift, and it changed his life. Emails, text messages, directions, all over a single eye so it was clear. Thanks for pushing a much needed update so he can start using them again.

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Re: Google Glass is still around and just got its first update in nearly three years

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Post by iDemonix »

rullelito wrote: post #48
dsl wrote: post #18

If anyone from the Glass team happens to read this: A very good friend of mine has an uncorrectable problem that basically gives him double vision all the time. I got Glass for him as a gift, and it changed his life. Emails, text messages, directions, all over a single eye so it was clear. Thanks for pushing a much needed update so he can start using them again.

Can't he just have a patch?

I thought Google just released one?
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