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Google Glass Is Dead, Long Live Google Glass
DumbSwede writes BBC reports on the demise of Google Glass as we know it:
Google Glass sales halted but firm says kit is not dead. One can only assume there will be dissatisfied early adopters and developers given Google's decision. Here is to hoping Google Glass 2.0 (assuming there is one) will be better received. The Verge expands a bit on the re-org that the linked BBC article mentions, as a result of which Google Glass moves from the Google X incubator to its own division: Google's announcing today Glass is "graduating" from the Google X experimental projects incubator to become its own independent division — a division that will report into Nest's Tony Fadell. Current Glass head Ivy Ross will retain day-to-day authority, but she'll report to Fadell. Nest itself will remain separate and independent, and Tony will still be in charge there as well.
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I was hoping to see some of these devices replace specialized fork lift pc's and inventory management systems. I know that a lot of things like the Honeywell hand helds and LXE's are tried and true but the idea of leaving an inventory listing in the corner of someones eye and allow verbal updates sounded like a game changer for replacing some of our existing systems.
...and it's sitting in a box in the corner, having failed to adequately meet the needs of any of our ideas to use it with our products. And we really tried too. Epic fail.
Glass never had a chance, not because of the privacy issues but because it just didn't actually have the processing power or battery life to do anything useful. Considering the guy who designed it has worn wearable computers for more than a decade, I expected better.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
The best direction for Glass now would be to pair with Segway, you could call the combined company NiCHé.
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Until it's on a store shelf it isn't for sale. It was never advertized as a consumer product. It wasn't even promoted. To get it you had to go out of your way to even find out where you were supposed to get the damn thing.
Best way to judge how successful a new technology is going to be is to look at how many clones stream out of China. Haven't seen a single Google Glass clone so far. Cloners may be cheap, but they're not crazy :)
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Is it just me or is the "Such-and-such is dead, long live such-and-such" headline being overused recently on Slashdot?
One of the things that I always thought about Google Glass was this -- it has a billion good uses for work, but is stupid and creepy when you start walking around in public with it. It's creepy in more than one way - there's the "everyone thinks you're a stalker" thing, the weird head gestures you need to make to control it, the talking to yourself, and also the "Google now knows exactly what my eyes are tracking in any given image" kind of creepy. I'm not a millenial, so I probably sound like an old coot, but Google already knows enough about us - phones, search, Gmail, etc.
Now, that all goes out the window when you're talking about work use. With all these cloud data centers hosting thousands of racks of servers, maintenance techs would be able to get real time info. Warehouses would be able to show human forklift drivers where stuff is. Aircraft and car mechanics would be able to get manuals without having to print/read paper job cards. Stuff like that is very useful - walking around with them in public is a different story.
Maybe Google is realizing this and tailoring future devices for certain applications.
I honestly think we'll see the kind of jobs requiring that being automated before we see better tools for those jobs. The days of people going around warehouses gathering stuff on a list are coming to an end.
Beta is dead, long live beta!!! oh... wait...
When Google, a company built on the concept of invading individual privacy, suddenly got all self-righteous and rejected my "What's the VIC's net worth?" facial recognition app, I knew the glasses were not going to succeed. You can't turn your back on your developers that way!
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
It's a neat concept and all but it doesn't really add enough value vs just carrying my phone to justify the outlay. Especially for something experimental that isn't going to have much support and that I can only imagine has an incredibly awkward interface.
You could have played it cool and acted like it displayed right and anyone who said differently was using a odd browser settings.
Now you can't say "Looks right on my screen!"
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lol @ anyone who wasted $1500 to be a guinea pig for a now utterly worthless piece of vapourware
Got my official "see you later, dude" email today. quick takes:
The Good:
Display was quite good.
No visual acuity problems for far-sighted eyes
Good for hands free access to your phone
The Bad:
Terrible battery life
Poor public image
"Google vs. Apple" crappy tactics i.e., poor iPhone integration [We are trying to break new ground, why do we need that sh*t involved?]
sigs are for losers (except to point out that sigs are for losers)
They wanted bragging rights to be the early adopters. I was interested enough to say "I'll get them when the price is about $50 to $100."
There's one up for bidding on eBay, currently at $105.50. I didn't put my bid in, because that's beyond what I'm willing to pay for a toy that I'll stop using in a few days. I'll check back in a year, and see what's selling at $50.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
sigh, please use computer terminology correctly. this is slashdot.
"vapourware" is software which has been advertised and marketed, or demonstrated with a prototype, and yet never fully completed or released.
Google Glass is real, completed, and released.
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean you can use incorrect terms to describe it. Why not also call it a pizza, since it's not a pizza?
All evidence from Google over the past few months (the Glass for Work initiative, their filing of design patents for Glass that are clearly dependent on an external power source such as a belt-worn battery pack, their partnership with Intel whose chipsets are not suitable to any form of Glass that does not depend on an external battery pack - note that Intel chips are suitable only to tablets/Chrombooks due to their excessively high power consumption) is that Google is targeting industrial/business uses.
They have done nothing to address Glass' biggest flaw as a consumer device - battery life/power consumption.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
Sadly, something like Glass will eventually become popular.
People do want wearables, and at the very least, a device that could eventually give you a huge amount of screen real estate without a monitor.
Once someone has perfected glasses that look like glasses but are monitors, you're going to end up with people taking their computers with them everywhere. If they can do it with contacts, it will be 100x worse. It'll be like having an FPS HUD in real life.
It's a short step from there to having people integrate cameras back into it.
A world full of glassholes. Welcome to the future.
Public interest would have been higher if they had picked a more appropriate name, like Googly Eyes.