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New Android eyewear butts heads with Google Glass
- sologoub 13y agoI like what these guys are doing a lot more: http://reconinstruments.com/ http://reconinstruments.com/ It looks to be Android-based as well. The Snow version is even more impressive as it clips into a number of goggles, as opposed to require you purchase the googles from them. It looks like goggle manufactures have to explicitly support this add-on, but it's a great way to engage a user-base without having to compete with the established players.
- Kapura 13y agoI'll not front: that's a much uglier device than Glass, and Glass isn't exactly the height of fashion. Plus it lacks much of the functionality that Glass has. I believe a legitimate competitor to Glass will emerge at some point, but this is more like a cheap knock-off.
- thret 13y agoCheap knock-offs drive acceptance, I wouldn't get one either but I'm happy to see it in the market.
- threeseed 13y agoNo it doesn't. Premium products used by people you aspire to drive acceptance. Cheap knock-offs are for the mass market.
- likeclockwork 13y agoSuperficial celebrity-worshiping elitism drives acceptance!
- Giarty 13y agoYou're right, but the design will improve very much. We are in the middle of the world biggest eyewear industry, and we're making agreements with them for the frame. The point of these first prototypes was only to prove, first of all to ourselves, that the system could fit in little room and weight.
- ArekDymalski 13y agoGlass seems to be well weighted. This doesn't. I wonder if it will lean to the right.
- Giarty 13y agoIt will be balanced by putting the battery on the right, and regulating the weights. This prototype has no battery because it's still tied to a pc, it's just for testing.
- pixie_ 13y agoGlass is 100% hype. If it were released tomorrow it would flop hard. Any review you read of it is meh, it really does nothing different than your phone and isn't practical to use in social situations or life in general. If you want to see 'real' new technology that people would actually pay money for, check out the Oculus Rift. I'm not saying the Rift is the same. I'm saying both Glass and the Rift have been hyped a lot. The difference is the Rift really is practical - you see a lot more 'real' people using the Rift and enjoying it vs. Glass.
- eeky 13y agoAre you kidding me? At the very least, wearable computing as a form factor is going to be huge. And Google has the resources and flagship product to pull a big win. It's a convenient, hands free device with display. I suspect this is one of the main reasons their stock has been doing so well lately.
- threeseed 13y agoWearable computing is absolutely going to be huge. But there is no way to escape the fact that most people consider glasses and watches to be fashion accessories. And to make the next mass market device you will need to live and breathe fashion. Which effectively means doing what Apple is doing and bringing in experienced people like Paul Deneve from (Yves) Saint Laurent.
- aa0 13y agoIf anyone can do it, it might be Google. It's going to take a ton of internal development to further Google Glass from their last prototypes. With smartphones setting the expectation, the general public and even techies are going to want something slim, streamlined, and performant. The TI GPU processor that Google Glass comes with isn't exactly performant enough to do the crazy VR stuff we want.
- sneak 13y ago> If anyone can do it, it might be Google. I think you misspelled Apple. Remember, you're talking about the people who shipped the Chromebook Pixel with a super-high-res touchscreen... without pinch-to-zoom enabled.
- codezero 13y agoWon't they be a target for litigation for using the name GlassUp?
- Giarty 13y agoYes, the litigation is ongoing. We object that we can not call our Glass other than glass, because that's what it is (check the dictionary). Otherwise we want be able to call any other wearable "shoe", "glove", or whatever, just because someone uses that term first. And however, if anyone can litigate us on that name it would be my friend Steve Mann, who has been using it for about twenty years: Glass generation 1, Glass generation 2, ... See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality
- wavesum 13y agoThe most interesting feature of Glass for me is having the camera which would leave my hands free. GlassUp doesn't have that. Plus it's ugly as f*. Let's see but I would predict this will be a huge flop.
- jonmrodriguez 13y agoFor hands-free video recording, check out my product Epiphany Eyewear. http://epiphanyeyewear.com http://epiphanyeyewear.com We have better camera optics, longer recording time, and equal resolution, compared to Glass.
- avree 13y agoJon—two questions. 1. Why does your site disable my back button? 2. When are you shipping? I'm interested.
- jonmrodriguez 13y ago1. Ah, that's a bug, thanks for noticing it. 2. We're not announcing a firm date because manufacturing is hard, but it's sometime in the next several months. Thanks for your interest, and please tell your friends B-)
- MartinCron 13y agoVery promising. Be sure to announce here when it is order-able.
- jonmrodriguez 13y agoThanks! Will do.
- Giarty 13y agoWe didn't want to do a camera version actually, because we see our product as a tool rather than a toy. But then we found it's necessary for object recognition, plus many people are asking for it, so we'll have it, it's already in offer on our IndieGoGo campaign http://igg.me/at/glassup/x/3553080 http://igg.me/at/glassup/x/3553080 However we don't want to upset people's privacy feelings, so we'll make the camera version very evident, with a big writing "You're on air" or something.
- lsc 13y agoseriously, they aren't starting with a prescription option? I know a bunch of the sort of people who would use this. I think one of them doesn't wear prescription glasses.
- cfesta9 13y agoJudgement Day T2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olXilz8r4uU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olXilz8r4uU