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Why Google Glass Will Fail

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Re: Why Google Glass Will Fail

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I think Glass will be awesome in certain areas, mostly related with work than pleasure. I am not an example that represents the whole, but my guess that the work field will be the Glass' nirvana and the rest will be covered by devices less obstructives with your look.

That's interesting. What are the work use cases you're seeing value in? (I haven't been in a formal office for so long, I may be missing the opportunity there entirely)

There are many uses for the profesional. Most of them related to imagery processing I guess, and reporting.

For example:

1. A police will start a suspect detention, then he starts recording the procedure as well his partner, so that video goes directly to the cloud and the police station officers can have for later reviews. This could be really nice for example it would provide many point of views of the action done and a police would not be charged for abuse of force if everything is recorded and, a citizen can be protected in case the officer abuses force.

2. inventorying. Scanning code bars, access items in a database, ask for availability, many things related to store management can be done by employees.

3. Medical: doctors can record procedures and save the images/videos to their systems, they can ask talk other doctors for opinions without even picking a phone. They can check a patient historial with better specifics. They can access facts inmmidiately, like "What's the level of O(2) blood has in case X, with person who drink remedy Y". Imagine the possibilities. Or access a vademecum, etc.

There are many uses. More than the ones I would use for fun i guess.

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That's interesting. What are the work use cases you're seeing value in? (I haven't been in a formal office for so long, I may be missing the opportunity there entirely)

There are many uses for the profesional. Most of them related to imagery processing I guess, and reporting. For example: 1. A police will start a suspect detention, then he starts recording the procedure as well his partner, so that video goes directly to the cloud and the police station officers can have for later reviews. This could be really nice for example it would provide many point of views of the action done…

Love all those use cases. I wonder if their launch would have been more successful if they picked one of the above, gave it away for free to X doctors at St. Luke's in NYC with software adapted to their niche, and waited for word to spread about how useful they were for doctors and had metrics for the impact they had.

Your examples make me think of segways...great for cops apparently...but not so awesome for domestic use cases.

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There are many uses for the profesional. Most of them related to imagery processing I guess, and reporting. For example: 1. A police will start a suspect detention, then he starts recording the procedure as well his partner, so that video goes directly to the cloud and the police station officers can have for later reviews. This could be really nice for example it would provide many point of views of the action done…

Love all those use cases. I wonder if their launch would have been more successful if they picked one of the above, gave it away for free to X doctors at St. Luke's in NYC with software adapted to their niche, and waited for word to spread about how useful they were for doctors and had metrics for the impact they had. Your examples make me think of segways...great for cops apparently...but not so awesome for domestic…

That was one of the perfect examples of totally high-tech stuff but really rarely seen on private use. I only meet 3 segways owners but know dozen of companies that use the thing for workers.

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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.

headsets don't cover your face. big difference.

Not really. You know there was a time when people didn't wear glasses or sunglasses at all, then people started doing it, and now it's normal.

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All of these arguments would also be valid for a post in the early 80's entitled "Why the Walkman Will Fail."

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…

The walkman delivered value I couldn't get otherwise

Transistor radio? Panasonic portable cassette[1]?

The Walkman had three things: size, stereo and marketing. Maybe you had a need for portable stereo playback in 1981, but for me and my friends it was the size and the marketing. Then again I never had a transistor radio, so I had no opportunity to be pre-jaded.

[1] http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TjQbHKV2Vuc/S59ezmCHH7I/AAAAAAAAA3...

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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.

Wearing a bluetooth headset is not required to use a cell phone though. It's optional. Also, how much have they really proliferated? I don't see them very often in my slice of suburbia.

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headsets don't cover your face. big difference.

Not really. You know there was a time when people didn't wear glasses or sunglasses at all, then people started doing it, and now it's normal.

glasses = nerdy

sunglasses = cool

google glasses = dorky

99% of what Google glass can do I can do on my smartphone WITHOUT THE HASSLE and WITHOUT making me look like a dork.

Re: Why Google Glass Will Fail

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Conspiracy theory time.

What if employers start making employees wear them and have the video retained indefinitely? So that everything you saw, said and did was recorded for your employer to watch.

If this video streams to any online account, what’s to stop an outside agency from getting their hands on it.

Personally, I think it's rather upsetting that the feature people always rave about the most is the one that quickest turns us into an even more voluntary surveillance state.

TLDR: we don't need damn cameras on our damn faces. I promise your life can be fulfilling with out them.

Re: Why Google Glass Will Fail

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I don't think it'll fail. I think it's going to be a massive success for people already addicted to things like facebook, instagram and reddit. The thought of never having to miss some tiny thing to share online so you can amass a tiny bit more internet karma is too alluring to go un-utilized. The amount of 'check out what this person said at burger king' and 'look at this person dancing on the subway' videos is going to skyrocket.
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