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I somehow can't understand the positioning of the device. Is the satisfaction of urge for 'sharing wonderful moments of your life' really how Google sees the Gl

I somehow can't understand the positioning of the device. Is the satisfaction of urge for 'sharing wonderful moments of your life' really how Google sees the Glass are going to be used? No augmented reality demos, no business/production/field applications, not even an x-files-like process documentation or hot-news-like POVs? All this emphasis on the 'sharing' aspect feels really weak for the product with such a vast number of applications. Or maybe it's just the result of the Glass being in a very alpha stage right now.

moe 14y ago
I suspect two reasons for that. Firstly, Google is on a social binge. They push G+ with everything they have and that demo was probably partly designed to contribute to the subliminal image of G+ being "the future". Also noteworthy in that regard the casual placement of competing products (apple) in an "also-ran" fashion. Secondly, Google is probably fully aware that they don't need to promote the glasses to industry and military. These sectors will adopt the technology without a blink anyway and are probably already in touch. There's little need to address them in a public keynote, those battles are fought in dim conference rooms. Instead Google seems to be using their earliest opportunity here to gauge and tease the inevitable yet still completely unknown consumer potential - basically exercising their first-mover advantage. Then again, if you were to draw conclusions from their terrible choreography and execution of the keynote (you know, the 2 hours before and after the parachute jump), it might just as well all be completely random and I'm merely reading way too much into it...
roguecoder 14y ago
The only useful innovation they've found lately is Google Hangouts. It makes sense that they'd like to reproduce that success here. Augmented reality has never been proved useful: on the other hand, people share photos all the time. I am worried that they didn't address input or show examples of what the view actually looked like. Even for sharing, those will both be key.

moe 14y ago

I suspect two reasons for that. Firstly, Google is on a social binge. They push G+ with everything they have and that demo was probably partly designed to contribute to the subliminal image of G+ being "the future". Also noteworthy in that regard the casual placement of competing products (apple) in an "also-ran" fashion. Secondly, Google is probably fully aware that they don't need to promote the glasses to industry and military. These sectors will adopt the technology without a blink anyway and are probably already in touch. There's little need to address them in a public keynote, those battles are fought in dim conference rooms. Instead Google seems to be using their earliest opportunity here to gauge and tease the inevitable yet still completely unknown consumer potential - basically exercising their first-mover advantage. Then again, if you were to draw conclusions from their terrible choreography and execution of the keynote (you know, the 2 hours before and after the parachute jump), it might just as well all be completely random and I'm merely reading way too much into it...

roguecoder 14y ago

The only useful innovation they've found lately is Google Hangouts. It makes sense that they'd like to reproduce that success here. Augmented reality has never been proved useful: on the other hand, people share photos all the time. I am worried that they didn't address input or show examples of what the view actually looked like. Even for sharing, those will both be key.