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Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by youngtaff »

jpwagner wrote: post #49
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. 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 ...?

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by ben1040 »

calinet6 wrote: post #40
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…

They also said this kind of stuff about Videophones, and those actually did die.

Maybe they died, if we're talking about fixed station video phones that tried to emulate what George Jetson had. Those were DOA for decades.

Or maybe technology (better bandwidth, front facing cameras in laptops & mobile devices) just caught up with our realization that the concept is more useful when one or both parties are not at their desks or at home.

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

bobsy wrote: post #57
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…

I think he makes a good point about having to talk into your glasses. Like many over-positive posts though this seems overly-negative. I don't get how someone can have such strong opinions about something they haven't touched or used. The biggest challenge I see for Glass is practical uses. If I am walking down a country lane does Glass do anything? It would be cool to be able to look at a tree and say "whats this?"…

I believe you can already get phone apps that will identify trees and bugs so I don't see any reason why that couldn't be ported to glass.

Similarly, even the demo video shows driving directions and both Google and others provide hiking trail, cycling directions (even offline ones, which you might need in such circumstances).

Personally, I'm interested because I'm a cyclist. I think they'll be in the front lines with anyone else who needs their hands free once the price comes down.

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by nemof »

kristofferR wrote: post #60
boundlessdreamz wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Btw Voice is not the only way to control glass. I'm not sure if voice can be eliminated altogether but that should be easy enough. So the second problem is actually not a problem.

It would be amazing if something similar to Leap were implemented. Imagine how cool it would be - you would simply point/click in the air with your finger where the interface elements were augmentally displayed to you. Granted, it would look incredibly stupid for the unknowing onlookers though.

I'd genuinely not imagined adding something leap. That's a brilliant idea. I guess depending on where it was pointed, your actions could be more or less obvious. I imagine touching different fingers together to carry out different actions.

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by tomasien »

I've realized that I'm in a weird time in my life where I've been a few years out of college, am not an early adopter (more second wave adopter), and therefore no longer have an innate sense for what is about to take off.

But I do not believe in voice recognition technology as a primary use case. I don't use it when it's available, and even the people I know who advocate its use only, and I mean ONLY, ever use it when they're 100% alone. So that's my 2 cents.

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by pyre »

jgroome wrote: post #69
Jabbles wrote: post #22

certainly all their hardware has been a complete failure in the marketplace Nexus 7 sale estimates are 4.6 million. Fine, so they haven't ousted Apple yet, but it's by no means a "complete failure". I like mine :) That seems to be the only "argument" in the article. The others seem to be arguments from personal incredulity. http://news.yahoo.com/nexus-7-sales-soared-2012-still-fell-s... http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/A…

He actually name-checks Nexus as an example of a failed product. Meanwhile the Android community is generally in love with the Nexus 4, I know two non-techies who love their Nexus 4s (Nexuses 4?), and I myself think my Nexus 7 is a joy to use. Granted, there were those problems getting the initial batch of 4s out to the public, but that's hardly grounds to say a company is incapable of making customers happy, surely.

  | there were those problems getting the initial
  | batch of 4s out to the public
If he's hinging his argument on those initial/release production issues, then I guess he views the PS2 as a failure as well?

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by ocean12 »

estel wrote: post #5
mistercow wrote: post #3

>Google has never ​had a successful product that people pay for. Pretty sure people pay for AdWords.

And despite their supply problems, the Nexus 4/7 are top quality products.

No, the 4 suffers from horrendous battery life and it's camera is very 2010.

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by pezz »

randallsquared wrote: post #89
pezz wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you can't see the difference between someone holding a largish device (say, a phone), point it at you and record a video (hence, obviously snooping) versus same said person closing their eyes, pretending they're sleeping, having their head tilted in your direction and recording a video... Then yeah, I guess you're the kind of creep this product might appeal to.

Actually, what I want is everything logged that I could have seen or heard, had I been paying attention. I want to be trying to remember what someone said to me while I was distracted by a road sign, and be able to pull up audio or video of that moment by reference to the distracting sign ("triangular blue sign") by doing a video search via voice input. I want to have every moment of every day in my life available vi…

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