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by pragmatic
5190 days ago
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What percentage of the population wears glasses now? If you believe the 150 million (1) number, than less than half the population. How many people can you convince to wear glasses that do not normally? What about sun glasses? Will I need two pair of Googgles (2)? One for day, one for night? Do you really think young women (or men) are going to wear these things? My bet is that this project goes no where with Google in its current form. If anyone has a chance, it's Apple. Apple is the only large company with enough style to make something like this cool/socially acceptable. If you can make the Camera etc, invisible, then that's a whole different story. 1) http://www.aao.org/newsroom/press_kit/upload/Eye-Health-Stat... 2) my term |
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Probably the same number of people you can convince to buy and carry a metallic/plastic rectangle in their pockets everywhere. If it offers utility at an affordable price, people will embrace it.
My bet is that this project goes no where with Google in its current form. If anyone has a chance, it's Apple. Apple is the only large company with enough style to make something like this cool/socially acceptable.
Steve Jobs hired someone from MIT a few years ago who was a leading researcher in wearable computing (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/apple-hires-wearabl...). Apple has likely been working on such a device for some time.
It makes sense for Google to work on something too. How far will Google Glass go? Who knows. This is a public unveiling of a research project, rather than something that'll be sold in stores tomorrow (maybe by year-end though). There's probably a lot left to go before you can buy one, at which point it'll be a good time to evaluate it if it's any good or not.