Can a product have a competitor if it hasn't actually launched yet?
Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor
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Re: Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor
#12Can a product have a competitor if it hasn't actually launched yet?
Not only that, but the market has not been established either. The product has not real solid use case except getting Facebook/G+ notifications on the go.
Re: Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor
#13What these things really need is some way of being controlled directly by the brain. I don't want to be wearing goofy glasses and telling them to guide me to the pub. I just want to conjure up a rabbit to follow.
Hehe, I suppose that wont be hard in the nearby future (25 years). The glasses could have neuro-censors that would be in constant contact with key parts of both sides of the brain.
The glasses could have neuro-censors
Re: Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor
#14Am I the only one who thinks Google Glass is a bad idea? We already trusted our virtual life to google (emails, what we do, etc). Are we sure that we are ready to trust our real(physical) life too? Don't get me wrong... It seems like a cool project but I wouldn't use it, maybe I am getting too old :/
It doesn't bother me much for a simple reason: Sutherland's wheel of reincarnation applies to cloud computing. Right now there isn't enough processing power or storage on a portable device to store everything you would want out of a thing like this, but give it time. And then it's hardware, it doesn't have to be ad supported -- the device can know all about you, but it's your device.
So that's one possible future. And the tech they're developing is pretty agnostic to whether the information it collects is stored in the cloud or just on the device, so let's try not to be too pessimistic about something cool just yet.
Re: Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hehe, I suppose that wont be hard in the nearby future (25 years). The glasses could have neuro-censors that would be in constant contact with key parts of both sides of the brain.
The glasses could have neuro-censors That's a frightening typo!
Lol, frightening indeed. My bad.
Re: Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor
#16Am I the only one who thinks Google Glass is a bad idea? We already trusted our virtual life to google (emails, what we do, etc). Are we sure that we are ready to trust our real(physical) life too? Don't get me wrong... It seems like a cool project but I wouldn't use it, maybe I am getting too old :/
It doesn't bother me much for a simple reason: Sutherland's wheel of reincarnation applies to cloud computing. Right now there isn't enough processing power or storage on a portable device to store everything you would want out of a thing like this, but give it time. And then it's hardware, it doesn't have to be ad supported -- the device can know all about you, but it's your device. So that's one possible future. An…
True, then again the temptation for them to start feeding you personalized real time ads, were your whole life is their ad canvas, might be too great to resist. Lets wait and see.
Re: Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor
#17What these things really need is some way of being controlled directly by the brain. I don't want to be wearing goofy glasses and telling them to guide me to the pub. I just want to conjure up a rabbit to follow.
Hehe, I suppose that wont be hard in the nearby future (25 years). The glasses could have neuro-censors that would be in constant contact with key parts of both sides of the brain.
Neuro-censors... you mean like this guy? http://vimeo.com/46304267
;)
Re: Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor
#18Microsoft's current strategy with everything seems to be:
"me too! me too!!!"
Re: Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor
#19Microsoft's current strategy with everything seems to be: "me too! me too!!!"
As was pointed out elsewhere, this was applied for a year before Google Glass was shown at all.
Re: Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor
#20Microsoft's current strategy with everything seems to be: "me too! me too!!!"
I'm curious if you're arguing that Microsoft shouldn't hedge their risk to Google Glass taking off by building a competitive product?
There are certainly a bunch of areas where Microsoft are also innovating (see Microsoft Research).