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My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price

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Re: My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price

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Post by swalsh »

bane wrote: post #95

I appreciate this review, and I agree with him 100% on the price point. Had I been in the audience I wouldn't raise my hand till $200-300 either ($1500 is almost comically absurd). But at the same time, I'm gonna wait no matter what till it does more. A head mounted camera (which seems to make up the bulk of the advertising use-cases for it) just isn't important to me...at all. I think the head mounted navigation stu…

I think the advertising focus on the camera is actually brilliant. Look at facebook, and instagram. Outside the hacker circle, instant updates mean very little. Quick photos are cool. Eventually people will start seeing the value in a HUD, but for now its probably too futuristic for a majority of people. Instant photo's really aren't.

Re: My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price

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Post by PeterisP »

WiseWeasel wrote: post #125
onedev wrote: post #10

Some observations: From what he wrote it seems to me like he only gauged the reactions of technically-oriented people. Of course tech people are going to be pretty excited about this, more-so than the average Joe. He also seems to feel very very strongly about this. I don't think many people feel the same strength of opinion towards Glass. He's right about the price. If they could cut it down to subsidized-smartphone…

The social implication of wearing Glass is that your network notifications take priority over your conversation. When you get a call or email or text message notification during a conversation, you can choose to ignore it and leave the phone in your pocket, or covertly switch to silent mode. When you're wearing glass, the notification interjects itself physically between you and your conversation partner, indicating…

It does not "interject physically between you and your conversation partner", it becomes available in a corner of your vision away from your conversation partner and you can pause the conversation and look at that, or dismiss it just as you dismiss a vibrating cellphone.

Re: My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price

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Post by PeterisP »

jacquesm wrote: post #68
ewang1 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see that being much of an issue. When you're out in public, most expectations of privacy are gone anyways.

Yes, but you don't want every Tom, Dick and Harry to start photographing you either do you? How would you feel if where ever you went someone followed you with a camera pointed at you?

Depending on your country, you probably are being photographed all the time - if significant portion of cars have dashboard-cams (as, say, in Russia) then on the street you're likely all the time on someone's camera.

Re: My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price

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Post by PeterisP »

Heliosmaster wrote: post #51
jdotjdot wrote: post #26

I'm actually pretty curious how this will fit for people who already wear glasses or some kind of eyewear. Will there be prescription Google Glass(es)? That could shoot the price way up, especially if Google is the only merchant for them. Who will make the lenses for me? Could I get my favorite glasses merchant to make my glasses, or will I be forced to get a $700 special prescription pair from Google? Maybe people w…

Eventually, if the market will be very wide, I guess there will be Google Prescription Glasses (you decide the name). For the moment Glass can be detached and put on top of the frame of your current glasses (bonus: hipsters with big frames, won't even notice it!). I Totally agree with the first iteration concept.

Not 'eventually', it's already confirmed, manufactured and used - some of the demoed Glass units have a slightly different front frame where prescription lenses can be attached in the same way as for "normal" glass frames.

Re: My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price

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Post by hutniped »

gingerlime wrote: post #115
raldi wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Glass is successful, what makes you think the technology won't one day be available as an add-on to just about any pair of glasses?

good point, or customizable like mobile phone covers (like the good ol' nokia days)

Google already promised that Glass will work with your prescription glasses as a screwable addon: http://9to5google.com/2013/03/12/google-confirms-prescriptio...

Re: My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price

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Post by PeterisP »

andybak wrote: post #118
sidi wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With Dropbox, you are free to pick the editor. Not so with Drive. The 'Docs +' in fact adds a constraint.

I'm not clear how to get a Google Drive workflow using Dropbox and an app. i.e: 1. A single canonical version of each document with a change history. 2. Simultaneous real-time editing by multiple users with conflict resolution. Dropbox has pretty limited locking and conflict resolution even if you don't factor in live editing.

Well, you don't get simultaneous real-time editing by multiple users with conflict resolution - but that's not why I use Dropbox for. In the last year, I had two documents where I needed to do that, and I used Google docs for that; but it's a very rare edge case for me. Frankly, in many real cases, I'd trust Word's track-changes+email workflow better despite its horrible usability - as when editing an agreement or technical spec, you don't really want to share everything with the "other side", so you need keep the comments and not-really-decided edits hidden; and you also want to review all their recent changes explicitly every time.

Most documents I work with need no conflict resolution as creator and viewer is strictly separated; but where proper collaboration is required, Google Drive won't cut it, I would want to have a proper version control system like git or similar.

There won't be Google Drive support for native-level editing of, say, Photoshop files, folders of code, audio data, or any data files edited by in-house built tools; but you can have a decent workflow where Dropbox syncs these editables between all your computers, and also allows others to read their latest version from a shared folder.

Re: My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price

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Post by raldi »

bergie wrote: post #117
raldi wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems like the perfect opportunity for theft.

People already keep their smartphones on table in busy bars, and maybe their wallet in a back pocket. This isn't any easier to steal than that, and has way less impact than having to freeze your credit cards for instance. Much will depend on the price of the final Glass, but if it is down to around the price of designer sunglasses, I don't see a big threat.

I dunno.. if I were using a urinal and someone grabbed the flipped-up glasses on my head, I would be in no position to either chase them or even get a description of their face.

Re: My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price

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Post by semiel »

onedev wrote: post #13
magic_haze wrote: post #4

Interesting he feels so strongly about that... but then again, he always kinda does. Not sure what to make of it. I used to follow Scoble's blog back when he was evangelizing for Microsoft, but he's abandoned his mediums so often and so vociferously that I sort of lost track. Is Google Plus his latest platform now? Personally, I'm consciously trying _not_ to get stuck with a single company's ecosystem, so a lot of th…

As far as G+ is concerned, I find Facebook much more useful than G+ for all intents and purposes (photos, groups, messaging, news, everything I find is either better or more useful on Facebook; more useful in the sense that my friends actually use it heh). YouTube has great content but the design has changed for the worse in my humble opinion. Maps is top notch. Really a modern day beauty. Calendar is pretty useful,…

Google+ has a very specific niche at the moment: Groups of specialized hobbyists who want a platform that's a hybrid between a microblog service and a message board. I know that it's currently the center of the indie tabletop RPG world, for instance, and I think the same is true of at least some other similar communities.

I don't think it'll ever replace Facebook, but it could certainly make phpBB obsolete.

Re: My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price

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Post by wklauss »

magic_haze wrote: post #4

Interesting he feels so strongly about that... but then again, he always kinda does. Not sure what to make of it. I used to follow Scoble's blog back when he was evangelizing for Microsoft, but he's abandoned his mediums so often and so vociferously that I sort of lost track. Is Google Plus his latest platform now? Personally, I'm consciously trying _not_ to get stuck with a single company's ecosystem, so a lot of th…

- "Interesting he feels so strongly about that... but then again, he always kinda does"

Exactly. This is why his review on it doesn't tell me much. He's been a constant cheerleader for services and products that, once I had the opportunity to try, left me at best unimpressed.

I think he just tries to love everything "new" for the sake of "new" and in hope that if something later catches on, he'll be seen as a pioneer and the force behind the adoption trend. Glass might be a great product, but from Scoble's experience is hard to tell.

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