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Can someone post a mirror? I'm being prompted to sign in with Twitter to view the article, something which I have no intent of doing.
Uhh, what? I was under the assumption, at least from all their marketing material and everything that I've heard about Glass from other people on the internet, that there are models that fit over your existing prescription glasses. No?
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Hah, that's funny, but I disagree. The walkman delivered value I couldn't get otherwise. I wanted to carry an extra device because I wanted music, and I couldn't play music otherwise. (Unless I carried a boombox on my shoulder, which some people did in awesome rap videos). Google glass doesn't add tremendous value over what I can currently do with my phone. It takes pictures...faster...but I can already take pictures…
my phone also won't make me look like a dork. seriously, this is Google's number one hurdle to getting people to use this.
FWIW, when I was an intern at Google, Sergey wore them 24/7. He looked a bit weird the first couple of times, but after that he just looks like Sergey. It's like people wearing glasses when they previously didn't. Weird for a bit, then perfectly normal afterwards.
> Problem is…people who wear glasses can’t wear Google Glass. Uhh, what? I was under the assumption, at least from all their marketing material and everything that I've heard about Glass from other people on the internet, that there are models that fit over your existing prescription glasses. No?
> Problem is…people who wear glasses can’t wear Google Glass. Uhh, what? I was under the assumption, at least from all their marketing material and everything that I've heard about Glass from other people on the internet, that there are models that fit over your existing prescription glasses. No?
We whipped up a quick adapter in a few minutes using OpenSCAD and found that the IR sensor was the pain point. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:88426
Can someone post a mirror? I'm being prompted to sign in with Twitter to view the article, something which I have no intent of doing.
Can someone post a mirror? I'm being prompted to sign in with Twitter to view the article, something which I have no intent of doing.
"Google Glass is a new gadget. Other popular devices reduced the number of gadgets I needed to carry and made life better, but Glass is an extra gadget plus it's stupid because it doesn't do anything and what it does do it does badly".
> Problem is…people who wear glasses can’t wear Google Glass. Uhh, what? I was under the assumption, at least from all their marketing material and everything that I've heard about Glass from other people on the internet, that there are models that fit over your existing prescription glasses. No?
I may be wrong! Thanks for correcting me. That having been said, it should REPLACE glasses, not be in addition to. Still doesn't solve a problem for their prime target demo.
As for your main point: for this initial model, the main benefit it offers, that I hear from users time and time again, is the instant photo/video capability. Not having to dig your phone or camera out of your pocket / handbag is a huge win for a lot of people in the initial explorer program.
But that's not why I think the product will succeed. I can see the future potential of an always-on heads-up display, and that's just too useful to pass up. Will it ever get there? Maybe not, but I think it has a greater chance of that than failure.
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Hah, that's funny, but I disagree. The walkman delivered value I couldn't get otherwise. I wanted to carry an extra device because I wanted music, and I couldn't play music otherwise. (Unless I carried a boombox on my shoulder, which some people did in awesome rap videos). Google glass doesn't add tremendous value over what I can currently do with my phone. It takes pictures...faster...but I can already take pictures…
"Google glass doesn't add tremendous value over what I can currently do with my phone." Right now. And yet, isn't one of your points that it's not a micro improvement? You're saying here it's a micro improvement on your phone... but that's a bad thing in your blog. It's not hard to imagine Glass having a phone built in (in fact I'd welcome it, the apps I really need on my phone could easily be in Glass, and I could d…
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my phone also won't make me look like a dork. seriously, this is Google's number one hurdle to getting people to use this.
All bluetooth headsets make people look like dorks, but that hasn't stopped their proliferation. FWIW, when I was an intern at Google, Sergey wore them 24/7. He looked a bit weird the first couple of times, but after that he just looks like Sergey. It's like people wearing glasses when they previously didn't. Weird for a bit, then perfectly normal afterwards.