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I'm actually pretty curious how this will fit for people who already wear glasses or some kind of eyewear. Will there be prescription Google Glass(es)? That c
by jdotjdot 13y ago
I'm actually pretty curious how this will fit for people who already wear glasses or some kind of eyewear. Will there be prescription Google Glass(es)? That could shoot the price way up, especially if Google is the only merchant for them. Who will make the lenses for me? Could I get my favorite glasses merchant to make my glasses, or will I be forced to get a $700 special prescription pair from Google? Maybe people with poor eyesight could never wear them at all?
I am completely on board with the product and hope for its success--but I am convinced that the entire product is merely the first iteration that will eventually make way for contact lenses, which will be the true long-term viable version of this product. Right now, Google Glass will be good for gathering information not only about the world around us as we already do with smartphones, but for understanding how customers and developers would begin to use such a product--and then applying that information towards improvement in what will ultimately be lenses.
- Heliosmaster 13y agoEventually, if the market will be very wide, I guess there will be Google Prescription Glasses (you decide the name). For the moment Glass can be detached and put on top of the frame of your current glasses (bonus: hipsters with big frames, won't even notice it!). I Totally agree with the first iteration concept.
- PeterisP 13y agoNot 'eventually', it's already confirmed, manufactured and used - some of the demoed Glass units have a slightly different front frame where prescription lenses can be attached in the same way as for "normal" glass frames.
- logn 13y agoGoogle is already in talks with Warby Parker (the Zappos of glasses) to design more stylish frames. I'm sure they have a plan for affordable prescriptions, and Warby's frames/lenses come to less than $100 already. Actually, if I could get Google (prescription) Glass for < $400 and it wasn't very noticeable I have a computer on my head, I'd certainly buy a pair since I already wear glasses. But there's no way in hell I'm going to use this if I always need a cell phone (I rarely have one), and I'm not paying any of the major cell companies for a Glass plan because they all rip you off. If they teamed up with Metro/Boost/Cricket type companies or went the original Kindle path of free data, I'd be happy.
- antihero 13y agohttps://plus.google.com/photos/+Scobleizer/albums/5871408320945406321/5871408319976462066 https://plus.google.com/photos/+Scobleizer/albums/5871408320... They go over the top.