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Are all the glassholes / glasshats out there really that bad for Google Glass? The author of this editorial seems to think so and pictures like this aren't helping any.

Google Glass, like the Segway, is what happens when Silicon Valley spends too much time talking to itself. Maybe that’s even overstating the case: The rhetoric around Google Glass is what happens when important tech people spend a little too much time congratulating each other.
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Sounds like a nitpicky pure-picky article, as much as I enjoy listening to bluetoothers loudly announce their credit card numbers and CVCs or discuss genital warts with their doctors.

And even without google glass the people in the last image would look terrible. I should set up shop in the valley and sell makeovers.
 
This amounts to little more than advertising for Google Glass
 
Omg, google actually give their glass devices to people with ginger hair, WTF!

Boooooooooom Baaaabaaay
 
It's a very fair point, people with bluetooth headsets look like idiots... The google glasses look stupid. Unless they make it much more subtle... I think it could fail.

iphone wristwatches though... They're kind of cool...
 
Google Glass type devices will find their place. Their place is in augmented reality, real time text and audio translation, service /repair guidance, on foot navigation. The problem is they arn't pushing those applications.
 
matteos said:
It's a very fair point, people with bluetooth headsets look like idiots... The google glasses look stupid. Unless they make it much more subtle... I think it could fail.

iphone wristwatches though... They're kind of cool...
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I'm actually pretty interested in Apple's watch. I have my doubts that it'll take off since there aren't as many people wearing watches these days aside from older folks, but who knows, Apple could bring interest back again.

As for Google Glass, I have a sneaking suspicion that it won't go mainstream yet. Perhaps in a few more years, but there are a lot of privacy types backlashing against it.
 
They'll just pay some more models or wannabe somewhat hot actresses to have their photos taken with the specs on.
 
Making people look stupid and sound obnoxious hasn't seemed to have any bad effect on bluetooth headset sales. If Google sells Glass cheap enough, people will eat it up.
 
what the fuck is up with this dudes head? If your head way that fucked up, why would you shave it to make it blatantly obvious?

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Can anyone point me to a demo of using it for anything other than a calendar / camera / video camera.


The hardware begs for augmented reality apps but all I ever see is people taking video or photos with it. Seems like it is more of a low profile GoPro camera with a novel interface than anything useful.
 
Lazybones said:
Can anyone point me to a demo of using it for anything other than a calendar / camera / video camera.


The hardware begs for augmented reality apps but all I ever see is people taking video or photos with it. Seems like it is more of a low profile GoPro camera with a novel interface than anything useful.
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That was pretty much the point of google selling the dev kits. They want to design the hardware, not the applications.
 
matteos said:
It's a very fair point, people with bluetooth headsets look like idiots... The google glasses look stupid. Unless they make it much more subtle... I think it could fail.

iphone wristwatches though... They're kind of cool...
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There is nothing less cool on this planet than a phone watch. Sorry but to call out blue tooth headsets them call those abominations cool is a truly laughable notion.

Pretty sure Vegeta is the only one who could pull off Google glass without looking like a dork, and even that is pushing it.
 
Segways didn't catch on because that cost a significant fraction of the cost of a car, but with far lass capability and simply can't function as replacements for the vast majority of users. For the users that it could replace cars, light mopeds already exist, are far cheaper, and in many ways still better.

Bluetooth head sets did catch on, but not only are they socially inconvenient, they are another device to keep up with, which pretty much runs directly contrary to the whole purpose of a smart phone.

Besides being dorky, pens don't leak that much, no one wears shirts with pockets and more, and no one needs to carry a million pens in it anyway.

Glass will be successful if there is an advantage to using it. It will only be dorky if it has no compelling purpose beyond novelty.
 
Glass should have been marketed or released to the disabled who might be able to benefit from it first.
Healthy people don't really need it.
I haven't seen anything successfully augment the human experience enough for me to want one for any reason.
Unhealthy people are already abusing it.
 
You know that guy spent hours cleaning his shower so he could take that pic.

Oh, I mean he paid a Mexican lady to spend hours cleaning it.
 
google glass will likely star in plenty of youtube poop before becoming something useful in its first generation......after that who really knows
 
Obi_Kwiet said:
Besides being dorky, pens don't leak that much, no one wears shirts with pockets and more, and no one needs to carry a million pens in it anyway.
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While the pocket protector is associated with dorkiness, it did serve a perfectly good purpose for certain professions, namely engineers and draftsmen.

Pens may not leak much nowadays but they certainly did in the past. Back in the day, before CAD, people used drafting tables and pens to draw up designs and tended to carry more pens in a shirt pocket than today.

My Dad probably wore one as a mechanical engineer for some 20 years and no one would ever describe him as a dork. But then he raced an Austin-Healey, installed a Chevy V-8 in said Healey, climbed mountains, downhill and cross-country skied, sailed, windsurfed, fixed cars, built furniture, and let his grand-daughters do makeovers on him.

What you wear doesn't define you as a dork. There are plenty of dorks who are very well dressed.
 
I don't know, I always thought Bluetooth headsets/earpieces looked cool. Well, except for the whole "talking yourself?" part.
 
All google has to do is pay some big stars to start walking around using the hell out of them and they'll sell like hot cakes. Just like apple does sell it as a techno-fashion accessory. Done...
 
King of Heroes said:
I always thought Bluetooth headsets/earpieces looked cool.
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*puts "King of Heroes" on ignore*


lol, just kidding there... this is an interesting topic. Makes you wonder what the fashion world thought of wrist watches when they first came out. Or regular glasses for that matter.

I'm sure many were opposed, and similarly thought those adopting the new tech looked "douchey". Since then we've somehow managed to get beyond that. Well, for the most part.

I actually find folks who wear glasses more attractive, dunno why... maybe because I empathize with their imperfection, or because I'm really pretty insecure myself and looking into the eyes of someone through something else feels like a protect sheild to my soul, lol...

Anyways, I think if the tech is good, and improves our lives in a meaningful way, then it'll have staying power.

FWIW I think most cars make people look super douchey... I mean, get over yourself, you are just going from point A to point B :p
 
Honestly, IMHO, I don't disagree with him in the slightest lol...
Products such as the GG are Tech luxuries, with the side effect of making you look like a dork - just like the segway.

IMHO, though, years of science fiction have made wearable HUD type displays both highly anticipated, and slightly cool enough to be mainstream. It's one of those things, like the hover car, that most westerners would openly embrace because, well, it's always been the next logical evolution of technology (no matter how illogical these technologies actually are).
 
Google glasses will be the way of the future.


....just not this installment of Google classes.


When they make them look like just regular glasses and symmetrical instead of that stupid camera on the left side....also when they add 3D
 
Lazybones said:
Can anyone point me to a demo of using it for anything other than a calendar / camera / video camera.


The hardware begs for augmented reality apps but all I ever see is people taking video or photos with it. Seems like it is more of a low profile GoPro camera with a novel interface than anything useful.
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It can also work as a GPS and I think it integrates into Google Now. Otherwise, Google has those developer versions of it out for programmers to make more software for it.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
There is nothing less cool on this planet than a phone watch. Sorry but to call out blue tooth headsets them call those abominations cool is a truly laughable notion.

Pretty sure Vegeta is the only one who could pull off Google glass without looking like a dork, and even that is pushing it.
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My brother is a huge fan of Universal Soldier and I had the awesome idea of getting him a Google Glass set and putting together a replica of the headset from that movie.

The DBZ reference is another funny idea. I bet you the first application available for it will be a scouter application. It would detect faces and put up "facts" about them.

"*beep* This guy is a Shithead"
 
Dekoth-E- said:
There is nothing less cool on this planet than a phone watch. Sorry but to call out blue tooth headsets them call those abominations cool is a truly laughable notion.

Pretty sure Vegeta is the only one who could pull off Google glass without looking like a dork, and even that is pushing it.
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Wrong, wristwatches have been around for a very long time, cell phones basically killed them off, therefore bringing them back with the functionality of a smartphone, with the aesthetics and history of a watch would work very well.
 
This is just the first gen of the tech. Imagine a few generations later. They will look just like regular glasses.
 
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