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Glass just wasn't very good. Tiny low resolution display, poor quality camera, uncomfortable to wear, terrible battery life. Pivoting to "for Enterprise" was ju
by jpm_sd 4y ago
Glass just wasn't very good. Tiny low resolution display, poor quality camera, uncomfortable to wear, terrible battery life. Pivoting to "for Enterprise" was just a half-assed attempt to make back some of the $$$ wasted on development without putting much more effort into R&D. Not a surprise that adoption was limited.
(I worked at X 2013-2015.)
- wetpaws 4y agoMore reasons to iterate on it.
- Gareth321 4y agoIt was a first gen AR product released almost 10 years ago. They needed to keep working on it, but like all Google products, they stopped very soon after launch.
- jayd16 4y agoIt wasn't even AR. It was just a hud.
- deelowe 4y agoThere was a lot of really impressive tech in glass. Especially for 10 years ago. I have no doubt that with continued focus and funding, they could have build something truly impressive. Unfortunately, glass was a pet project of Sergey's and he decided to exit stage left fairly quickly once some of his unsavory behaviors started becoming known publicly. This was just a few months after the launch. Once he was no longer hands on, the entire endeavor was left the languish without clear direction.
- sleepytimetea 4y agoUnsavory behaviors with Google Glasses ?
- deelowe 4y agoNo. He got caught up in some me too type stuff and quietly disappeared from the limelight as rumors started surfacing.
- azatom 4y agoI don't understand: it is not a fashion thing but a work equipment. Battery life: why isn't there an option for a battery pack on your belt and a wire under the cloth? If it is uncomfortable, than with a (different hardware design) that battery pack could carry most of the hardware too. This let me think that google never intended this as a real product, just for the media attention.