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> "However effective a gadget is, it will fail if it makes its user feel like a chump." Google Glass suffered from this problem too, IMO.
by dgritsko 9y ago
> "However effective a gadget is, it will fail if it makes its user feel like a chump."
Google Glass suffered from this problem too, IMO.
- ashraymalhotra 9y agoYup, same with Snapchat spectacles! Although Spectacles did try to play with the coolness factor at least.
- darkstar999 9y agoThe article agrees: > It is telling that this product comes from the same people who brought us Google Glass, an ugly, invasive face-mounted camera that evoked hostility wherever it was worn.
- Zak 9y agoI think the bigger problem with both is that they're tech demos rather than products. I got to demo Google Glass at a tech meetup once. It wasn't the first release, so there had been time to work bugs out. It rapidly overheated after taking, and looking at a couple pictures, and the battery life was abysmal. It demonstrated several capabilities that will probably be included in useful products in the future, but it was essentially unusable. I bet in a decade or so, smart glasses will take off. As soon as they're actually useful, the social resistance to them will get worn down.