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GG would become so much more popular if it would aim at certain niches first, like security, technicians, doctors and public servants (partially the way Segway did) - it should invest in showcase apps that cater for those niches and build up market from there.
Last month a few eviction notices were served in my building. The guy who was delivering them was wearing GG, presumably to legally document that the notices were served.
If 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
Ah yeah, my bad, forgot I never set up my profile. Best email is thom@sfedb.com, my supervisor's email is in the paper, but best to contact me.
Does anyone else get the impression that this might have just been an intern project* or similar? Seems very odd for a seemingly minor iterative update to pop up out of nowhere after such a long time otherwise. * The update, not Google Glass itself
But my assumption is that someone at Google still uses their Explorer Edition, and fixed some pet peeves of their own to support newer Android phones better, maybe they added the keyboard input because they needed it, etc. And then just decided to go ahead and get it released to everyone because the work was already done anyways.
I think what kept Glass from going through the roof was the camera. The whole thing would probably be awesome in its own with just display, GPS and compass. Many people feared for their privacy and the people using the Glass were considered douches because of this issue.
Yet none of those same people have an issue with taking their phone out of their pocket constantly and glancing at it which has... a camera on the front! But I could see the issue of never knowing whether or not the glass camera is recording and whether that recording is going to wind up on youtube.
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"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)
I'm kinda sad I never took advantage of their invite to buy one. Would have been a cool piece of Google history to have sitting on a shelf.
The product was very very very MVP and alpha-like, but came at a finished-product price tag. I have to imagine that this strategy reaulted in a very small and non-representative test cohort of wealthy tech geeks in the Bay Area. Many of them no doubt purchased Glass as an in-crowd signal, with little serious intention of dogfooding the product or developing for it.
Hardware at that pricetag can't just be soft-launched like software. When you charge $1,500 for a device in basically v0.1, you're setting people up for disappointment.
I think what kept Glass from going through the roof was the camera. The whole thing would probably be awesome in its own with just display, GPS and compass. Many people feared for their privacy and the people using the Glass were considered douches because of this issue.
Yet none of those same people have an issue with taking their phone out of their pocket constantly and glancing at it which has... a camera on the front! But I could see the issue of never knowing whether or not the glass camera is recording and whether that recording is going to wind up on youtube.
The difference with a phone is generally people pull it out, do something, then put it away. You'd get a similar reaction from onlookers if you kept your phone front and center your entire day.
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Yet none of those same people have an issue with taking their phone out of their pocket constantly and glancing at it which has... a camera on the front! But I could see the issue of never knowing whether or not the glass camera is recording and whether that recording is going to wind up on youtube.
You never know when the smartphone camera is recording either.
Yes, you get all the fancy AR stuff with camera, but I think you could still build a nice HUD without the cam.
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.
Google controls the entire table here. But they want you to blame all of the different OEMs rather than looking at the real culprit in the middle of all of them.