Will that be Google's 68th Operating System or 69th I forget how many they are up to now. /s
Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
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#12It seems that Google Glass was not ready for prime time when it launched. Now, as in the next couple of years, seems to be the inflection point for the whole ecosystem. Apple is also supposedly preparing for a launch of their glasses. I see tremendous use cases for these glasses in all sorts of workplaces from surgery, dermatology, hair stylists, factory assembly, horticulturists to potentially nefarious uses cases l…
Yep, and Google will fail to foresee practical needs and cancel the project in less than five years.
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#13Will that be Google's 68th Operating System or 69th I forget how many they are up to now. /s
> Google's 68th Operating System or 69th
Maybe those are iterations for them
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#14Whenever I transpose my comments to HN, I usually do some light editing. The following comment is unedited because this headline kinda fired me up.
Considering how Google’s treated AR and VR in the last 10 years, hyping people up then quietly pulling back support and finally cancellation after just 2-3 years, I don’t see this going well.
They had a toehold 6-10 years ago which they could have easily kept iterating on and making small marketshare gains, but I guess that wasn’t good enough. Now instead of entering 2022 with 10-20% marketshare, a mature platform, and developer/user mindshare, they’re starting the new year with none of that and the idea “Hey maybe we should try AR/VR stuff again.”
Get bent Google. You shouldn’t have cancelled Daydream and killed the small amount of goodwill you were starting to cultivate. Lenovo got burned, developers got burned, users got burned. And they still want to try again?
Instead of taking your Google Glass ball and running home with it after everyone was mean about the idea, maybe listen to the feedback and change the product? But no, despite Glass being introduced almost purely around consumer-targeted ideas and concepts, it’s now an “Enterprise” product out of reach of us mere mortals.
ARCore, with its many naming and branding changes, has also failed to catch on like Google hyped.
Google, you’re charging into battle with Apple and Zuck and you got a dildo made of American cheese. Good luck.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkXnLUpXgAEz6Yg.jpg (via HBO's Succession)
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#15It seems glasses like these will be inevitable at some point, whether from Google or someone else.
How will we have any privacy at all in a future where anyone could be recording you and uploding that data to some cloud? All it takes is one person with them at a party, or restaurant, or busy city street.
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#16We're going to get to a point where instead of advertisers paying per click they'll pay per look since the glasses will be able to track eyeballs. Hell, there might be a premium that pays "x" per every millisecond spent looking at the ad.
That doesn't sound dystopian at all. Got to love capitalism!
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#17It seems that Google Glass was not ready for prime time when it launched. Now, as in the next couple of years, seems to be the inflection point for the whole ecosystem. Apple is also supposedly preparing for a launch of their glasses. I see tremendous use cases for these glasses in all sorts of workplaces from surgery, dermatology, hair stylists, factory assembly, horticulturists to potentially nefarious uses cases l…
Those glasses have been used in elderly care here in Denmark for quite a while. Nurses who treat wounds use a set of glasses to document the process so they don’t have to switch in and out of gloves a million times.
I wouldn’t too much about the big American advertisement companies getting a lead on it, considering how little they are trusted outside the US in anything related to enterprise.
Those glasses I mentioned are actually Google glass if I recall correctly, but with some completely different software because naturally you can’t use Google software to document patient data in the EU.
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#18It seems glasses like these will be inevitable at some point, whether from Google or someone else. How will we have any privacy at all in a future where anyone could be recording you and uploding that data to some cloud? All it takes is one person with them at a party, or restaurant, or busy city street.
That ship has sailed a long time ago. There is a good chance that everything you do outside of your home is being recorded by someone or something and stored somewhere. Including your neighbors' Ring cameras, traffic cameras, shop cameras, and workplace surveillance. The only saving grace so far is that it's not getting automatically uploaded to YouTube yet, but somebody has access to it.
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#19Whenever I transpose my comments to HN, I usually do some light editing. The following comment is unedited because this headline kinda fired me up. Considering how Google’s treated AR and VR in the last 10 years, hyping people up then quietly pulling back support and finally cancellation after just 2-3 years, I don’t see this going well. They had a toehold 6-10 years ago which they could have easily kept iterating on…
Add SceneForm to it, announced with fanfare at IO and slowly forgotten.
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#20I have Google announcement fatigue. It's just so pointless to get excited about anything they say they're working on. I wonder how employees feel after spending years working on a new product only to see it tossed aside and forgotten. Years of their life wasted, discarded like they never mattered in the first place. It makes me shudder to imagine that as a possible trajectory my life could have taken. I mourn for any of the multiverse versions of me that lived that experience.