Why Google Glass will fail with consumers

[amyklai]

It's already like what you're describing, when I'm in the pub having a conversation I fully expect to be overheard so I don't hold conversations about how much weed I've got in my pocket or the fact that I enjoy B cups more than a DD.
It's common sense in today's world.

There's a little difference between some guy overhearing something and somebody videotaping a conversation (and possibly putting it on youtube).

 

[amyklai]

I'm still curious as to what you would be saying to two strangers that you are worried about having recorded.

Err, step one: get wasted on a weekend while studying, being videotaped by a some Glasser who puts the stuff on FB / YouTube,
step two: graduate, apply for a job
step three: HR guy does an internet search of you, finds some stupid videos
step four: profit!

 

[mnewsham]

There's a little difference between some guy overhearing something and somebody videotaping a conversation (and possibly putting it on youtube).

Again I go out in public assuming there is a very good chance I will be recorded, act as if you are and be done with it, want a private conversation? Go somewhere private. Don't want to be recorded? Sorry we're already there.

 

[WelshBloke]

Err, step one: get wasted on a weekend while studying, being videotaped by a some Glasser who puts the stuff on FB / YouTube,
step two: graduate, apply for a job
step three: HR guy does an internet search of you, finds some stupid videos
step four: profit!

One: Given that you're wasted in this scenario how is Google Glass changing it from a bunch of people with smartphones?

Two: Don't sweat it, your prospective employers were young and got wasted as well. As long as you didn't do anything really stupid you'll be OK.

 

[Phoenix86]

Author is a moron, every point they make will change over time. Especially price and "rudeness".

There's hundreds of potential applications TODAY for AR glasses from medical to construction to navigation. It will take (significant) time of course for infrastructure and development so these applications are viable but to dismiss the product is short sighted.

Of course first gen tech like this won't be a home run but the market for it will be huge.

 

[mnewsham]

Err, step one: get wasted on a weekend while studying, being videotaped by a some Glasser who puts the stuff on FB / YouTube,
step two: graduate, apply for a job
step three: HR guy does an internet search of you, finds some stupid videos
step four: profit!

Any job who will go searching someone else's Internet profiles for tidbits of information of you just for a job is not a company I would work for anyway. Besides unless you were linked to that video and or picture it wouldn't do anything, they can't grab a picture of you or anyone else and say "is this you?"



I seriously don't understand what the big deal is compared to what's already being done anyway.

 

[Nintendesert]

So how many of you douchenozzles slobbering all over Google's technocock and this glass nonsense also walk around non-stop with a blue tooth headset in your ear?

 

[WelshBloke]

So how many of you douchenozzles slobbering all over Google's technocock and this glass nonsense also walk around non-stop with a blue tooth headset in your ear?

So why is saying "wait and see how it does before righting it off" equal "slobbering all over Google's technocock"?

 

[Miramonti]

For Google's Brin to already insult it's entire potential market base ', calling everyone 'emasculated' for using smart-phones, one should expect the potential market base to make Brin their b!tch by ignoring this product. I think this product has no chance in it's current state.

 

[mnewsham]

So why is saying "wait and see how it does before righting it off" equal "slobbering all over Google's technocock"?

sorry i couldnt hear you with that cock in your mouth


Seriously though, I think people just like shitting on google because they dont want them getting even bigger. (and older people tend to think what they have been using their entire life is best)

 

[Rakehellion]

Cell phones are put away 90% of the time. The whole point of a wearable device is that it isn't.

 

[Gunbuster]

How long before the ultimate creeper app is developed? Recognizes yoga pants and then automatically uploads photo to reddit

 

[mnewsham]

How long before the ultimate creeper app is developed? Recognizes yoga pants and then automatically uploads photo to reddit

it also has an automatic photoshopesque filter to see through thin layers of clothing.

 

[Red Storm]

The privacy freaks need to wake up out of their cave and realize what year it is. Did you know it's already been possible to record audio and video with devices much smaller and inconspicuous than Glass for years now? Where was your bitching all this time? I know it can be cool and hip to hate on popular things, but this "concern" over privacy in public locations only now coming out of the woodworks is hilarious at best and pathetic at worst.

 

[Pray To Jesus]

Don't discuss private stuff in public. Problem solved.

 

[mnewsham]

The privacy freaks need to wake up out of their cave and realize what year it is. Did you know it's already been possible to record audio and video with devices much smaller and inconspicuous than Glass for years now? Where was your bitching all this time? I know it can be cool and hip to hate on popular things, but this "concern" over privacy in public locations only now coming out of the woodworks is hilarious at best and pathetic at worst.

Exactly, I don't know what world these people live in if they honestly believe they weren't being recorded when out in public already!

 

[Phoenix86]

The privacy freaks need to wake up out of their cave and realize what year it is. Did you know it's already been possible to record audio and video with devices much smaller and inconspicuous than Glass for years now? Where was your bitching all this time? I know it can be cool and hip to hate on popular things, but this "concern" over privacy in public locations only now coming out of the woodworks is hilarious at best and pathetic at worst.

The concern isn't that people can do it, because obviously they can, it's the ease of being able to do it when these devices become common. People can kind of do this now with cell phones of course. Obviously you're right people in public should expect less privacy.

 

[JTsyo]

i won't be huge at first. the $1500 is going to stop most people.

When the price drops to $200-300 i do think it wil be huge.

When they release the app that guesses what people look like naked, the thing will sell out.

 

[darkewaffle]

I'll be more interested when I can get a contact lens computer. Glasses, no thanks.

 

[kamikazekyle]

It seems like most of the recording complaints regard the ease recording in public -- and to a further extent recording without anyone knowing they're being filmed. Both issues, in my opinion, are pretty moot. Public places are, well, public. If you make a fool of yourself in public, you really shouldn't have any issues making a fool of yourself on YouTube. Getting together with strangers who decide to record using their Google Goggles in public means simply means you have to decide if you want to hang around those new people or not. If someone records you in private, that's a whoooole different ballgame.

Besides, there's plenty of devices out there that are much more discrete than Google Glasses and/or far less expensive, even for recording quality 1080p video. See PivotHead's lineup. And it's easy to just sit there and "play with your phone" while recording something. Or maybe take it out of your pocket to "check your email" while you start a voice recording app, then lay it down on the table to jump back into the conversation as you misdirect people from what you did.

*Anyway*, tinfoil hat stuff aside, Google Goggles as a product itself might fail. It certainly has a plethora of uses, but how many of these are practical in a multi-use consumer device could be questionable at this stage. As a concept it's going to succeed, guaranteed. Even if GG disappears, the technology and applications will continue to develop and integrated/wearable computers are going to be commonplace.

BTW: anyone thinking of Denou Coil? A whole second persistent cyber world superimposed over the real world if you're wearing smart glasses. Not quite GITS, but similiar.

I'd love to have a HUD display in my motorcycle helmets. I've seen some helmets dabble with it, but not very effectively. Some sort of Google Goggles type drop-in solution for a helmet would be excellent. It'd combine existing HUD technology like someone mentioned in BMWs, with additional networked features like traffic/construction, landmark identification, easy to use POV video streaming, group comms, even things like FOF/info tags for other riders/drivers in your group. More advanced versions might permit things like realtime distance measuring, ghost telemetry, automatic hazard highlighting, suggested corner entry/exit speeds, etc. Really, having this in a helmet format isn't needed, but is more convienent than wearing glasses under a helmet.

 

[Farang]

I think they'll end up like Kinect with a lot of surprising uses but not necessarily universal adoption.

I can already think of some uses. Surgeons, HR people conducting interviews, travelogues (I was riding on the back of a moto taxi in Bangkok the other day and really wanted to share with the family back home but didn't want to look like a jackass in public with a gopro on my head)

 

[Pulsar]

Google Glass will never become ubiquitous to the point where it comes down dramatically in cost. It's a niche product.

You're blind.

Nav systems in cars. Smart phones in the pocket. Video game systems and DVRs.

All of these things started out very expensive. Yet, when people figured out their utility, they boomed.

I wear glasses. If I could have a device built in that gave directions, found the closest bank and restaurant, doubled as my cell-phone and could play mp3's and songs (they're working on bone-sound transmission), that'd be spectacular.

Are you afraid of technology?

 

[Pulsar]

I think they'll end up like Kinect with a lot of surprising uses but not necessarily universal adoption.

I can already think of some uses. Surgeons, HR people conducting interviews, travelogues (I was riding on the back of a moto taxi in Bangkok the other day and really wanted to share with the family back home but didn't want to look like a jackass in public with a gopro on my head)

Let's play the 'can you imagine' game.

Can you imagine working on an engine or a device and having the directions right in front of your eyes, hands free?

Can you imagine people in the medical profession looking up things while they check you out? Or, as you said, surgeons have real-time feedback?

So many uses.

 

[Farang]

Let's play the 'can you imagine' game.

Can you imagine working on an engine or a device and having the directions right in front of your eyes, hands free?

Can you imagine people in the medical profession looking up things while they check you out? Or, as you said, surgeons have real-time feedback?

So many uses.

Yea but I see them more as Segway than Smartphone, if that makes sense.

 

[Farang]

on the plus side there is likely to be mass proliferation of POV amateur porn. good time to invest in those ex gf sites