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Personally I think it was the camera that killed it. That, and the fact that google put out an unfinished product without providing plethora of resources and ap
by adnanh 12y ago
Personally I think it was the camera that killed it. That, and the fact that google put out an unfinished product without providing plethora of resources and apps for it, to get people excited, hoping the community would finish it for them... That, and the fact that people started calling Google Glass users "glassholes".
- spiralpolitik 12y agoWhat killed it was that it didn't solve any problems that weren't already solved by other devices (notably Smartphones) and introduced other problems (the 'glasshole' one you mentioned is but one example) that the other devices did not have. That and of course Robert Scoble wearing it in the shower.
- TeMPOraL 12y ago> That, and the fact that people started calling Google Glass users "glassholes". That was one weird thing I did not expect to happen after the release, but I can't stop thinking that a people calling Glass wearers "glassholes" are themselves actual assholes.
- cowsandmilk 12y agoThey positioned it as an up-market, exclusive, fashion device. If you drive a BMW, you've automatically classified as an asshole. Not at all surprising that people wearing glass were labelled that way.
- jschwartzi 12y agoI thought it had more to do with the fact that there was no way to know if you were being recorded. Basically, think about the most embarrassing or terrible thing you've ever done. Now, imagine that that were a video on Youtube or Facebook and you were automatically tagged in it. Users were dubbed Glassholes because they chose to walk around with this kind of power in bars and public bathrooms.
- tokenizerrr 12y agoIsn't there a light that goes on when it was recording?
- jschwartzi 12y agoI thought they added that later in response to people freaking out about being recorded.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoI do felt they sold it to the wrong crowd - to the rich dudes instead of geeks. But still, the kind of reactions you described is a really shitty feature of society.
- stesch 12y agoOh, and the reactions of Google Glass fans was very off putting, too. The G word was like the N word for them. It wasn't possible to discuss this aspect of the product even if you reassured the fans that you don't like the word.
- Symmetry 12y agoOne of the biggest potential uses of something like Google Glass I see is automatically pulling up information about things you're looking at and there's no way to do that without a camera. Now, as far as I know the Glass didn't have enough horsepower to do that usefully but theoretical future versions might. It's just too bad their advertising focused on people making recordings of what they were seeing.
- AndrewKemendo 12y agoThis is exactly right, any AR device needs a camera input, the problem is in the video recording aspect - it creeps too many people out.