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Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by ocean12 »

bergie wrote: post #80
ocean12 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then you missed a cogent argument: "If you have a phone in your pocket, why wear this? And it doesn’t seem to replace the need to carry a phone."

You may want to ask the 70,000 people who put money into the Pebble smartwatch Kickstarter... http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper... Here are the arguments Tog makes for an "iWatch": http://asktog.com/atc/apple-iwatch/

I thought we were discussing Google Glass.

(for what its worth, Gruber backed the Pebble on Kickstarter: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/04/23/pebble-watch )

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by zb »

weego wrote: post #21
pinko wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. The implication of the quote is that, unlike traditional glasses, Google Glass will distract the wearer .

So his point is he is blaming the product for people not being attentive? That would mean the car is at fault for driving without due care and attention, and yet I'm supposed to buy that that is a valuable insight?

That would mean the car is at fault for driving without due care and attention

If the car has a TV screen directly in front of the driver, then the design of the car would certainly be at fault for driving without due care and attention. Is that really that controversial?

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by missing_cipher »

kevinconroy wrote: post #11

People said the same thing about the huge, bulky cell phones that came out in the 1980s. Who would want to carry around a phone with them all the time? And one that large? It'll never catch on! Some folks said the same thing about the iPad. Who needs a tablet when I've got a laptop and a smartphone? What strikes me is that this person is lambasting a product that he hasn't tried first hand. He hasn't lived with it fo…

This is the trend with pretty much every "x IS y" article.

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by [deleted] »

youngtaff wrote: post #91
jpwagner wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People said the same thing about the huge, bulky cell phones that came out in the 1980s. Wait, bulky cell phones did not catch on. Cell phones became ubiquitous once they became practical. Go back in time and introduce a modern cell phone (assume the infrastructure to support it) and it would be a huge success. Maybe the next incarnation of enhanced reality will be huge, but the argument is that this incarnation will…

But would you get to the modern cellphone without the bulky ones? Also did the bulky ones not catch on because they were bulky, or because they were expensive or ...?

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Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by [deleted] »

weego wrote: post #18
calinet6 wrote: post #8

This needed to be said. The social implications of this device are indeed ridiculous. Most insightful: "Can you imagine having a conversation with someone that's wearing this thing? I'd feel like they aren't even paying attention." I already detest people wearing bluetooth headsets. They give off the wrong social cues, they were never really accepted as fashion, and other than government-mandated hands-free use in ca…

Making eye contact is the most important part of in-person social interaction, it gives a number of passive and active clues as to the persons intent and emotions. As neither of us have had any interaction with someone wearing Glass we are both hypothesising, yet I would suggest the number 1 goal was to allow maintaining eye contact when wearing it, and then there were probably some constraints that lead the rest of…

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Post by SquareWheel »

calinet6 wrote: post #8

This needed to be said. The social implications of this device are indeed ridiculous. Most insightful: "Can you imagine having a conversation with someone that's wearing this thing? I'd feel like they aren't even paying attention." I already detest people wearing bluetooth headsets. They give off the wrong social cues, they were never really accepted as fashion, and other than government-mandated hands-free use in ca…

    "This needed to be said."
Did it really? I didn't find the article insightful in any way, it's only superficial complaints about a product he's never used.

People are excited about this project not because of Google -- they're excited because it's a brand new form factor. It's something that is revolutionary and not just evolutionary. And yes, first generation products do tend to be ugly, slower, and have input problems as I'm sure Glass will. But this was also the case with the first mouse and GUI, the first touch screens, and the first multi-touch screens. They got better, and cheaper. Modern smartphones are incredibly polished after only 5 or 6 years of refinement (that is, from when this no-button multi-touch model took off). And you know what, society adapted to them just fine.

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by campnic »

riggins wrote: post #41
kevinconroy wrote: post #11

People said the same thing about the huge, bulky cell phones that came out in the 1980s. Who would want to carry around a phone with them all the time? And one that large? It'll never catch on! Some folks said the same thing about the iPad. Who needs a tablet when I've got a laptop and a smartphone? What strikes me is that this person is lambasting a product that he hasn't tried first hand. He hasn't lived with it fo…

People said the same thing about the huge, bulky cell phones that came out in the 1980s. that's a strawman. The primary claim is that Google's implementation is lame. The primary claim in not that 'Glass-type' hardware is lame.

The entire article doesn't contain compelling support for the argument you say he is making. Its a bunch of hand waving about how google gets bored after the engineering. That may be so, but he provides no tactile examples of how this is the case.

I can see your point about how he's attempting to argue the implementation is lame, but its also easy to construe his argument as 'glass-type' hardware is lame. This is an issue with the authors presentation, not with the OPs argument.

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by randallsquared »

calinet6 wrote: post #34
randallsquared wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> insightful quote: "I can only imagine my morning commute on the bus, with 15 different people talking to the screen on their head just trying to check email." So, low-quality earbuds are the problem, here, right? I mean, you're talking about listening to other people talking softly on public transportation, and you say the conversation is the problem? Do you similarly hate people who use cellphones or talk with fri…

I don't know where you're from, but around here, no one talks softly on public transportation except the crazies.

Heh. :) Most days, I take the VRE or Amtrak into DC to work, and there's always someone talking on their phone, or to their friend in the seat next to them, or to the conductor. Except, mostly, on the Quiet Car.
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