I dont think Google Glass 'broke'. Just because new thing is not as successful as iphone, does not mean its failure.
Why Google Glass Broke
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#12- battery life
- people don't want to talk to their device in public or make gestures around their head. it looks/sounds stupid
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#13I work in a capacity that reviews, tests, and develops proofs of concepts for new tech. We purchased 3 glasses when they came on the market. Our review:
1. pathetic battery life. You're going to have at most 6 hours of life. And that's with the GG radios off (and functionality at a nil).
2. You can't turn it off. it goes into a screen-off non-standby that still chews through battery. So when you think that youre conserving it for later... nope.
3. "Glass Overheating, shutting down". This showed up in the latter firmwares. Never fixed. It ruins the idea of recording video for lengths of time. I was trying to record a renaissance dance. Didnt work.
4. Forces a facebook style timeline. Horrible interface.
5. Has no use without wifi and bt on. The device is an Android... yet is completely dunb without data connections. Why werent there functionality built in that didnt need 24/7 internet access?
6. In order to use with a cell phone, you have to: turn on bt and pair, turn on WiFi tethering on the phone, allow data to tunnel through BT, and pair every connection from glass to phone. This, of course, eats battery. So, it was left at home, with the home WiFi, beating the purpose of with a cell.
7. Screen was offcenter and annoying. Itwas placed so you had to look up right to see it. Not to mention, it was askew on the face. That means recording video had an annoying 7deg tilt... unless you held your head like a dog.
8. $1500 . For "Google Quality". Not to mention, no support unless you count other people who wasted $1500 or more for the similar experience.
And, they took out one of the neatest features: facial recognition. Because of "privacy", yet the device consistently chatters to home base.
Yeah. Its a turd.
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#14I'm going to put my neck out and say "watch this space".
Google don't have this front and center any more with this glass product but I think they'll definitely be looking at different form factors in the future.
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#15I dont think Google Glass 'broke'. Just because new thing is not as successful as iphone, does not mean its failure.
Suffice to say that, it was at least a very expensive experiment. And everybody I know hated it - it had a very antisocial vibe on the wearer.
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#16I'm not convinced it broke any more than the newton or the palm pilot broke. It's just too early. palm pilots, newtons, and other PDAs were around for 13+ years and were considered "for geeks only". It wasn't until iPhone that PDAs finally became popular with the masses. Personal HUDs or Google Glass etc will go through the same steps. Something, maybe not totally similar but something with a camera, a HUD, augmented…
We got a few at my old workplace, and the tone of this article really annoyed me because you had to be wilfully ignorant to think that Glass was a finished, polished product. The whole point of 'Explorers' was explicitly stated as being for finding the kinks in the system outside the lab. The people who claimed it 'worst product ever' were moronic linkbaiters. One of the problems it did have that I thought was a prob…
>> "The whole point of 'Explorers' was explicitly stated as being for finding the kinks in the system outside the lab."
Originally. Then they started to sell it on the play store for $1500 with a full marketing page and no explanation that it was a beta product.
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#17Is it gone? My English is not the best but I would interpret the google plus status they are reffering to not as closing down but as "Hey we move to our own offices, beta is over, no new beta devices. We tell you when the final release will be available for purchase." https://plus.google.com/+GoogleGlass/posts/9uiwXY42tvc
"beta is over, no new devices" means no devices will available and the next sentence "we'll tell you" seems to imply never or a very in-the-future date. TLDR; It's an euphemism for closing up shop
Okay, yeah, maybe it's like that.
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#18I look at Google Glass as this decades 'Segway'. Hyped beyond all proportions, it failed as a mass market product, but found enough of a niche that you still see them to this day.
That will be the future of 'Glass.
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#19Personally I think it was the camera that killed it. That, and the fact that google put out an unfinished product without providing plethora of resources and apps for it, to get people excited, hoping the community would finish it for them... That, and the fact that people started calling Google Glass users "glassholes".
What killed it was that it didn't solve any problems that weren't already solved by other devices (notably Smartphones) and introduced other problems (the 'glasshole' one you mentioned is but one example) that the other devices did not have.
That and of course Robert Scoble wearing it in the shower.
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#20I'm not convinced it broke any more than the newton or the palm pilot broke. It's just too early. palm pilots, newtons, and other PDAs were around for 13+ years and were considered "for geeks only". It wasn't until iPhone that PDAs finally became popular with the masses. Personal HUDs or Google Glass etc will go through the same steps. Something, maybe not totally similar but something with a camera, a HUD, augmented…
You know, looking at everything through a HUD will give you diminished reality, not augmented :(