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This is the "big thing". The battery issues will be a minor footnote if the majority of your use of Glass is it providing information as you need it, rather than you fussing with it trying to get the information you need. Google Now allows for this to happen - the better it becomes, the better Glass becomes.
This is a perfect example of a primary difference between apple and google. Apple makes sure that before you ever use it that almost every single thing akin to what Dustin pointed out is a non-issue. Google gives you an alpha/beta product and wants you to find the flaws for them, and maybe help shape it. Using bread as an analogy, Apple gives you a beautiful tasty loaf ready to eat; Google gives you some dough and te…
Apple is like one that makes the absolute best vanilla and chocolate ice creams you've ever had. And maybe in the back, they're working on an amazing mint-chocolate-chip, but they haven't quite found just the right supplier of peppermint extract, and until then, nobody gets to try it.
Google is like that crazy experimental ice cream shop that has all sorts of weird flavors available at any time, and sometimes they don't quite work out (like "pancakes") but sometimes they're huge successful breakthroughs (like "bourbon and cornflakes"), and they have no way of knowing which is going to be which until the public starts to taste them.
After trying google glass out last week, it still has a long way to go. Many tech people lined up to try it out. All of us failed to do anything useful with it. We had to be told how to activate it. We had to be told what we could do with it. What phrases it keys off of ('Okay glass'). These were all highly technical people and we couldn't figure it out on our own. Contrast that with a few christmas' ago when I left…
This is a perfect example of a primary difference between apple and google. Apple makes sure that before you ever use it that almost every single thing akin to what Dustin pointed out is a non-issue. Google gives you an alpha/beta product and wants you to find the flaws for them, and maybe help shape it. Using bread as an analogy, Apple gives you a beautiful tasty loaf ready to eat; Google gives you some dough and te…
I think ice cream shops might make for a better analogy. Apple is like one that makes the absolute best vanilla and chocolate ice creams you've ever had. And maybe in the back, they're working on an amazing mint-chocolate-chip, but they haven't quite found just the right supplier of peppermint extract, and until then, nobody gets to try it. Google is like that crazy experimental ice cream shop that has all sorts of w…
I'm not sure what they will do about battery life. Maybe if they'll use more efficient chips like Cortex A7 or Cortex A53 instead of Cortex A9, battery life would increase. But I think the main reason is the small battery, and the reason they can't increase it much more is because they don't want it to be heavy. So they can only really try to optimize the device with a more efficient chip, more efficient voice recognition, more efficient video recording, and so on.
PCs, due to their general purpose nature, cannot be shaped to fit any one situation perfectly. They also require a lot of interaction to tell them which particular function they're supposed to perform in a particular moment.
I'm sure there will still be wearable PCs, but it's going to be transitional.
That's what I thought, though oddly, I haven't seen this obvious fact mentioned anywhere else. It can be fixed in future I'm sure - but in the short term it might cause some problems:
"OK Glass. Tweet 'I'm an idiot'." - someone shouting in the subway
-I don't think the screen is not bright enough, and I haven't had the issue where you have to look at something dark to see it.
-I also disagree about "dangerous while driving." In fact, I would argue quite the opposite. It's SO much safer than looking at your phone for directions. The fact that any information I need is a simple, and fast, glance away is much better than holding up my phone and looking back and forth between that.
(Side note- it's also fantastic for directions while biking. Previously I'd have to do this scary "check my phone while biking" thing, which was no good at all.)
-Looking at the screen has felt incredibly natural to me. You're not looking at the extreme top right. I don't have a lot more to say here other than YMMV, I guess.
I spent an hour tonight debating someone on how the Oculus Rift is revolutionary while Glass is not. The first hand reviews of the Rift vs Glass are night and day. One is the future the other is meh.
Interesting, so we're finally getting virtual reality helmets? I've been waiting since the early 1990s. They seemed to be right around the corner and were featured in several films like Lawnmower Man (1992), that Aerosmith video ( Amazing , 1993), Disclosure (1994), Virtuosity (1995), Johnny Mnemonic (1995), Hackers (1995). I suppose it makes sense, every technology seems to take about 20 years to reach the consumer…