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3. Wearables will stil suck because the problem they need to be solving is Peripherals The reason wearables suck and why glass failed is because they offer noth
by on_ 11y ago
3. Wearables will stil suck because the problem they need to be solving is Peripherals
The reason wearables suck and why glass failed is because they offer nothing. There is very limited value in a watch that lasts ~12-24 hours and can only take your pulse and display text messages.
Google glass is awesome, but there was no way to actually use it. You immeadiately let everyone know you were a google employee or wealthy technologist by wearing it. The way you communicated with it was by shouting at it. Not very discreet at all.
A company will emerge with a very low profile set of rings or bracelets that allow you to quickly gesture to your device what you want it to do. Before peripherals move past a keyboard or voice control there is no hope for wearables. Also, battery life is a factor.
I also think that glass will be replaced by something like oculus with front facing cameras, intake the information, process it and deliver it. You won’t need to actually look through the glasses but see it on a screen. Night vision will just be cached copies of the previous days imagery processed on a master server using seadragon or similar software.