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The battery in glass is tiny. If the camera was used to do what you say, the battery life would be measured in minutes, not hours.
by cromwellian 13y ago
The battery in glass is tiny. If the camera was used to do what you say, the battery life would be measured in minutes, not hours.
- Balgair 13y agoNow this is why I come to HN, for comments like this. Thank you for the info, I just assumed that the battery was comparable to a cell-phone's, hours of life. This does change my opinion for the time. Once the battery comes up to the hours and days mark, then I'll worry again.
- akama 13y agoIn addition to the short battery life, glass also get very hot when recording. It gets to the point that it hurts to wear after only a couple of seconds.
- mdwrigh2 13y agoEven if the battery were comparable to a phone, the battery life would be measured in minutes if you left the camera on and recording all the time. The camera is the single largest consumer of battery on your phone (when in use).
- mhb 13y agoIt's not too hard to imagine that people who make the cultural leap to wearing Google Glass would be averse to adding the geeky pager-sized battery pack that will give them days of operation. I reckon your relief will be short-lived.
- cromwellian 13y agoIf you don't want to believe the impracticality of it, than just look at the pointlessness of it. Why waste pointless amounts of battery, network bandwidth, and heat dissipation, when the data gathered won't actually help increase ad revenue over and above using GPS, search, email, and other activities as a proxy for your interests. The idea that they need to know what you're looking at to serve ads just doesn't make much sense.