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Google Glass. I thought this would become standard, miniaturized, and used in all aspects of life. Perhaps I read Daemon too much, but I was sure Glass would fl

Google Glass. I thought this would become standard, miniaturized, and used in all aspects of life. Perhaps I read Daemon too much, but I was sure Glass would fly

swyx 9y ago
it died when the word "Glasshole" was coined.
- toyg 9y ago
  It had everything to do with recording. People wouldn’t mind people flaunting weird gadgetry, but the feeling of being recorded was too creepy. It didn’t help that a lot of early adopters were very creepy to start with. It could have revolutionised journalism, and I still think we will eventually get something like it once the tech is really invisible, but the social aspect will take ages to sort out.
  - netsharc 9y ago
    Maybe in 15 years... toddlers nowadays have so many smartphone cameras being pointed at them for their mom's Instasnapbooktwit feed, they will probably grow up being used to have lenses pointed at them.
    - toyg 9y ago
      Tbh it looks like the opposite might be happening, exactly as a reaction to the invasive approach from their exhibitionist parents who grew up before the ‘00s (when exposure was valuable and scarce). Most kids I see are moving towards technologies where recording is managed very consciously (staged ala instagram or ephemeral ala snapchat). Camera awareness has gone up, hoodies have become everyday clothing... Rather than “I’ll be recorded, whatever”, the attitude I see emerging is “I need to know when I’ll be recorded because I know it can make or ruin me”. The revenge-porn laws imho are the first salvo in what will become a campaign to redraw the relationship we have with cameras, in the long run.
      - dennisgorelik 9y ago
        The reasons why teenagers do not want to get recorded is because they are frequently doing (or talking about) something that is illegal to do at their age (sex, alcohol, drugs...) When they reach the age when all that is legal, the need for privacy goes down quite a bit.
  - csmattryder 9y ago
    Robert Scoble in that Glass shower pic. You can spot the exact moment all the hype died, in that one post. https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/TcaqNeYJWXo https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/TcaqNeYJWXo
    - toyg 9y ago
      Considering what came out later about Scoble...
  - hyperpallium 9y ago
    A headsup display (without a camera) makes tiny devices usable (unlike watch displays). Google engineering was unwilling to remove such a useful feature... but Apple has withheld seemingly crucial features... so I still hope one day there'll be iGlasses.
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mszcz 9y ago
Yeah, that would have been so awesome. I told everyone I would wear one even despite the fact that I would look like a total dork. I got super excited when they said it would be available around the end of 2013...
- Simulacra 9y ago
  I have, regrettably, invested in just about every Kickstarter, Indegogo, and CES vaporware to bring a fully wearable lifeblogging camera to fruition. ZionEyez still smarts... I desperately want to be able to record the world around me, and use AI to pick out, identify, and catalog everything. Ever since I read Daemon by Daniel Suarez, and more importantly, the Halting State series by Charles Stross, I've wanted this ability. We have two pairs of Google Glass and I keep them on a bookshelf, as a reminder of how close we've come to this reality.
rajeshp1986 9y ago
I was hoping that Google Glass will be the next de-facto device/platform which everyone will be using. Feeling so sad a great idea didn't work well. Maybe it was way ahead of time and can be relaunched again.
- myaso 9y ago
  Likely will happen at some point. It's the next logical extension of consumer devices after the smart phone. It will happen eventually, except there isn't a clear time table as to when. The concept is general purpose enough that interesting things can be done with it.
Nanite 9y ago
Google Glass's application and marketing was hijacked when Sergey Brinn was shown the prototypes and decided to go for the consumer market. It was originally intended as an enterprise product, with somewhat similar envisioned applications to what Microsoft's hololens is aimed at today. Now that the hype over the original Glass release subsided, there are actually some promising developments for the enterprise market. Notably Augmedix, a company aimed at optimizing doctor-patient interaction uses it as a tool allowing for remote medical assistants (https://www.augmedix.com https://www.augmedix.com)
api 9y ago
The problem is it was a portable surveillance eye for an ad company. The idea itself is viable.
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Google Glass. I thought this would become standard, miniaturized, and used in all aspects of life. Perhaps I read Daemon too much, but I was sure Glass would fly

swyx 9y ago

it died when the word "Glasshole" was coined.

toyg 9y ago
It had everything to do with recording. People wouldn’t mind people flaunting weird gadgetry, but the feeling of being recorded was too creepy. It didn’t help that a lot of early adopters were very creepy to start with. It could have revolutionised journalism, and I still think we will eventually get something like it once the tech is really invisible, but the social aspect will take ages to sort out.
- netsharc 9y ago
  Maybe in 15 years... toddlers nowadays have so many smartphone cameras being pointed at them for their mom's Instasnapbooktwit feed, they will probably grow up being used to have lenses pointed at them.
  - toyg 9y ago
    Tbh it looks like the opposite might be happening, exactly as a reaction to the invasive approach from their exhibitionist parents who grew up before the ‘00s (when exposure was valuable and scarce). Most kids I see are moving towards technologies where recording is managed very consciously (staged ala instagram or ephemeral ala snapchat). Camera awareness has gone up, hoodies have become everyday clothing... Rather than “I’ll be recorded, whatever”, the attitude I see emerging is “I need to know when I’ll be recorded because I know it can make or ruin me”. The revenge-porn laws imho are the first salvo in what will become a campaign to redraw the relationship we have with cameras, in the long run.
    - dennisgorelik 9y ago
      The reasons why teenagers do not want to get recorded is because they are frequently doing (or talking about) something that is illegal to do at their age (sex, alcohol, drugs...) When they reach the age when all that is legal, the need for privacy goes down quite a bit.
- csmattryder 9y ago
  Robert Scoble in that Glass shower pic. You can spot the exact moment all the hype died, in that one post. https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/TcaqNeYJWXo https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/TcaqNeYJWXo
  - toyg 9y ago
    Considering what came out later about Scoble...
- hyperpallium 9y ago
  A headsup display (without a camera) makes tiny devices usable (unlike watch displays). Google engineering was unwilling to remove such a useful feature... but Apple has withheld seemingly crucial features... so I still hope one day there'll be iGlasses.
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mszcz 9y ago

Yeah, that would have been so awesome. I told everyone I would wear one even despite the fact that I would look like a total dork. I got super excited when they said it would be available around the end of 2013...

Simulacra 9y ago
I have, regrettably, invested in just about every Kickstarter, Indegogo, and CES vaporware to bring a fully wearable lifeblogging camera to fruition. ZionEyez still smarts... I desperately want to be able to record the world around me, and use AI to pick out, identify, and catalog everything. Ever since I read Daemon by Daniel Suarez, and more importantly, the Halting State series by Charles Stross, I've wanted this ability. We have two pairs of Google Glass and I keep them on a bookshelf, as a reminder of how close we've come to this reality.

rajeshp1986 9y ago

I was hoping that Google Glass will be the next de-facto device/platform which everyone will be using. Feeling so sad a great idea didn't work well. Maybe it was way ahead of time and can be relaunched again.

myaso 9y ago
Likely will happen at some point. It's the next logical extension of consumer devices after the smart phone. It will happen eventually, except there isn't a clear time table as to when. The concept is general purpose enough that interesting things can be done with it.

Nanite 9y ago

Google Glass's application and marketing was hijacked when Sergey Brinn was shown the prototypes and decided to go for the consumer market. It was originally intended as an enterprise product, with somewhat similar envisioned applications to what Microsoft's hololens is aimed at today. Now that the hype over the original Glass release subsided, there are actually some promising developments for the enterprise market. Notably Augmedix, a company aimed at optimizing doctor-patient interaction uses it as a tool allowing for remote medical assistants (https://www.augmedix.com https://www.augmedix.com)

api 9y ago

The problem is it was a portable surveillance eye for an ad company. The idea itself is viable.

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