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Re: Google relaunches Glass for businesses

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Post by skinnymuch »

bitmapbrother wrote: post #41
aresant wrote: post #9

This is so !@%!@ cool. Check out the A/B test of a technician with / without the software referenced in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5gXuZp25f0 Then here's a video that gives a sense of the software's interface: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5HOHNECW20 Very workflow oriented with nice communication and lookup features. This is the kind of small optimization stuff that is going to be revolutionary…

Here's a Boeing video on how they use Glass for their wiring harnesses. Pretty fascinating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTblKJjTadQ

This video is really good for grokking how the tech can help. Showing practical examples with the workers. Better than the other videos linked that are a bit too much marketing, less legit info. Not that this video isn't marketing also of course.

Re: Google relaunches Glass for businesses

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Post by Hailie343 »

oliv__ wrote: post #71
lallysingh wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the glamor. If you started on the manufacturing side, it wouldn't have any caché when walking down the street. But if you started with a bunch of models on a runway wearing these, you would. They tried going lux consumer and failed. But if they went the manufacturing route first, they would've burned any chance of the other.

I don't agree. They could've used the manufacturing side to enhance the tech, get the components to a cheaper price point, maybe even slim down the whole thing and then when they felt ready to enter the consumer market, spin it off as something new under another consumer-only brand.

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Re: Google relaunches Glass for businesses

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Post by takeda »

sloppycee wrote: post #19
theptip wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a good reason they don't put that large manual up on a rack by the actual work area?

The cynic in me thinks they did that on purpose, the further they put the manual from the task the greater the efficiency gain of their software.

Actually if it was next to him, the traditional way might be faster due to possible problems with voice recognition. I would imagine it would be especially bad in loud places.

Re: Google relaunches Glass for businesses

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Post by batmansmk »

theptip wrote: post #12
aresant wrote: post #9

This is so !@%!@ cool. Check out the A/B test of a technician with / without the software referenced in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5gXuZp25f0 Then here's a video that gives a sense of the software's interface: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5HOHNECW20 Very workflow oriented with nice communication and lookup features. This is the kind of small optimization stuff that is going to be revolutionary…

Is there a good reason they don't put that large manual up on a rack by the actual work area?

When you have one wire in one hand out of a braid of 90 and wonder where to plug it, you don't want to have to get up, flip through the manual, find the right wire reference (try remembering "AX45Y", "45YT5Y" etc all day long), read the corresponding graph and go back to your station.

The alternative with Glass is, read out loud the reference you have in your hand and it tells you where to plug it right where you are, hands-free.

Re: Google relaunches Glass for businesses

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Post by sushid »

arbitrage wrote: post #29
kharms wrote: post #8

>>Glass is also helping healthcare professionals. Doctors at Dignity Health have been using Glass with an application our partner Augmedix calls “a remote scribe”. My primary care doctor has a human scribe. The scribe is a recent graduate (BS), planning on going to med school next year. Being physically in the room, watching the doctor work is a great benefit to her. I'm not sure she'd benefit as much from watching a…

I would be totally cool with being recorded. I think its beyond time we get past the ridiculous false modesty that seems to be considered a virtue, but with no real benefit.

It's not "false modesty" to desires some privacy away from cameras when you're getting medically diagnosed with a condition.

Just because you're fine with it doesn't mean that there are people with sensitive medical conditions who would rather not have a video recording of themselves being examined.

Re: Google relaunches Glass for businesses

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Post by objclxt »

enjo wrote: post #59
payne92 wrote: post #27

It's easy to armchair quarterback this stuff after the fact, but this is where Glass should have started. The price point, social stigma/issues, and use cases all screamed "business applications!". Consumer tech may be where the glamour and scale are, but it's not always the best market entry point.

Wasn't that the point tho? Basically Google went: "We have this cool thing, but we're not sure were it's most applicable. Lets just put it out in the world and see what people do with it!" Which is what they did. The data they gained from that experiment no doubt led to this.

That's what they did after it was clear it was done as a piece of consumer hardware.

It's easy to forget how hard Google pushed Glass to consumers. They parachuted people out of a helicopter onto the roof of the Moscone Center wearing them. They invested a vast amount of money building out massive floating barges to use as showrooms, which they quietly mothballed and sold. They allowed Robert Scoble to take a picture of himself in the shower with one (some might say this was the worst crime of all).

If Google wanted to "just put it out in the world" they wouldn't have invested so much money in their consumer push. Now that I think about it, that Google I/O in 2012 was a bit of a disaster all around for consumer hardware, because it had both the Glass and the Nexus Q. At least Glass actually shipped.

Re: Google relaunches Glass for businesses

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Post by ryanobjc »

payne92 wrote: post #27

It's easy to armchair quarterback this stuff after the fact, but this is where Glass should have started. The price point, social stigma/issues, and use cases all screamed "business applications!". Consumer tech may be where the glamour and scale are, but it's not always the best market entry point.

Except you don't really know that. Hindsight 20/20 means that the current place seems inevitable. Here's an alternate future:

- People were initially apprehensive of the high price, but a small dedicated fan base bought it up - Shortly after launch, Google drops the price by a $200 - People deride it's feature set, commenting on the things it "should" have included - Despite that, the interface is very good - A year later, the next version is released, fixing all the missing problems people complained about - The item becomes a must-have tech, front page of Wired articles are written about it, etc, etc

Re: Google relaunches Glass for businesses

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Post by TeMPOraL »

tqi wrote: post #56

For the manufacturing example, why is this better than having a simple 7-10 inch tablet? For the doctor example, why is this better than a simple body cam, or even a camera that is wall or desk mounted?

> For the manufacturing example, why is this better than having a simple 7-10 inch tablet?

Hands-free operation.

Honestly, I'd love to use it all the time, instead of my smartphone. There are so many cases in which you want to have the screen in your FOV, but your hands free, not just at work...

> For the doctor example, why is this better than a simple body cam, or even a camera that is wall or desk mounted?

It probably isn't, unless the doctor can also utilize a display for something. Otherwise it's just an expensive (and quite likely crappy, compared to other available options) camera.

Re: Google relaunches Glass for businesses

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Post by erikpukinskis »

tpeo wrote: post #66
aresant wrote: post #9

This is so !@%!@ cool. Check out the A/B test of a technician with / without the software referenced in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5gXuZp25f0 Then here's a video that gives a sense of the software's interface: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5HOHNECW20 Very workflow oriented with nice communication and lookup features. This is the kind of small optimization stuff that is going to be revolutionary…

That was my reaction... about 3 to 4 years ago when I saw the Epson Moverio BT-100 engine maintenance training demonstration ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVV5tUmky6c ). It's not as sleek as Glass, but it's in the same spirit. Point being that Google isn't quite breaking new ground by selling augmented reality to businesses. Rather, it seems that they're trying to make the most out their Glass product now that it…

It wasn't a consumer product it was a dev kit.

Re: Google relaunches Glass for businesses

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Post by skinnymuch »

colechristensen wrote: post #11
randomf1fan wrote: post #2

I'd be really interested in hearing from someone who uses this on the floor. Is it really all they say it is? The marketing and PR looks good, but do mechanics really love it?

>"It took a little getting used to. But once I got used to it, it's just been awesome," Erickson says. From a pretty good NPR article from a while back. http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/03/18/514...

I was wondering the same thing as the person you answered to. Thanks for the article + audio snippet. I know the tech isn't as new anymore, but still exciting the more it gets used. Can't wait to see what comes about in a couple years for broader usages (i.e. how someone like me could utilize glasses to work better)
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