[eagsalazar]

OMG so boring. Google needs to learn how to put on a show.

Also, Hangouts is G+ best feature but sadly it is really hard to get people together on it. Why when I invite someone do they not get an email or IM?? They only get notified within g+ itself and it isn't easy to find the invite. On recent jobs several times I've tried to get meetings together on g+ only to resort back to conference calls (!!? WTF??) every time because people couldn't get on the Hangout. That is a real shame.

[rdl]

Google Glass just stole the show. Maybe the earlier parts were just parody/setup for this. Skydiving live over SF during the show using Glass?

[alttab]

I was fairly impressed with this. I can't wait for glass.

[clawrencewenham]

All they really showed in the skydiving stunt was that they were wearing head-mounted cameras.

[rdl]

Head mounted cameras with live video streaming and two way audio, over commercial cellular networks, using commodity hardware (well, prototype commodity hardware), is still a thing. I'm more into the thing as a compute device than headmount camera, but until they come up with a good audio UI or chording keyboard (ideally as glove), they'll be really limited on input, so video recording is probably the best use case.

(I worked for a guy who was doing this in the 1980s, with ~50 pounds of equipment in a backpack, a 5W radio transmitter on his head, etc.)

[clawrencewenham]

That part is cool, but it's also "FaceTime with a head-mounted camera". They spent most of their time showing something that is better but not unique. I was under the impression that Glass is supposed to put a UI in your field of vision, yet the entire presentation focused on the camera.

[falling]

> live video streaming and two way audio, over commercial cellular networks, using commodity hardware

Isn’t that the description of any smartphone available for a few years now? Remove the screen and you can shrink it almost at will.

Project Glass is interesting, I’m curious about the display tech, but this demo didn’t show anything new.

[josteink]

Project Glass is interesting ... but this demo didn’t show anything new.

But when Apple copies Android's notification center (which has now been massively bumped in JB) that is a huge thing and everyone is up in arms about what sort of geniuses the people at Apple are.

Sure.

[bgilroy26]

They released the next step in their roadmap. The device will be released to US developers in the IO audience who pre-order and they will be able to hack on it at the beginning of 2013.

[adgar]

> Isn’t that the description of any smartphone available for a few years now? Remove the screen and you can shrink it almost at will.

Then why hasn't that happened yet for a few years now, you think? Maybe your assumption "you can shrink it almost at will" is a bit simplistic?

[josteink]

Apple ask everyone to turn of wifi at WWDC to make their iPad work and that is awesome.

Live, two-way audio/video-streaming from AR computer glasses during a freakin' parashoot jump over regular cellular networks however, that is not really that much of a big thing?

Excuse me. What standards are you applying to whom where?

[fieldforceapp]

Glass was the "one more thing..." moment for sure; heard that there was a long line to purchase them for $1500 per -- any comments from HN owners?

Met with GOOG employees today who were testing newer versions, better resolution & new comms. I wasn't allowed to wear it but it looks bulkier than I imagined.

The odd thing is, during a meeting with an employee who was wearing Glass, it was hard to figure out where to focus my eyes on their face -- it was like talking to someone with a lazy eye.

[stcredzero]

> OMG so boring. Google needs to learn how to put on a show.

They need to hire the TED guys as consultants and institute the same sort of preparation that Apple puts into their conferences.

[lawdawg]

I get both an IM on Google Talk and notification on my phone ...

[eagsalazar]

I don't actually get the IM or the notification on my phone. Strange.

In any case, 99% of the designers I work with and 75% of the developers have iPhone/Mac and don't use either Android or gchat although they all have gmail/google accounts. So if they got an email they would be notified, otherwise, they never know.

Without the link it is also really hard to just tell people to go to G+. The way to join the hangout if you don't have a link is hard to find

This is not just an opinion, like I said, I actually tried to set up hangouts several times and these are the reasons it failed. Just my experience.

[drivebyacct2]

I get either a G+ or GTalk notification on my phone, it pops up if I have Google+ open and if not, I get a GTalk notice in Gmail. Otherwise I'm displayed as offline.

Also, I don't know what you found boring. Did you want more faux wood and plastic or more fancy words? I mean, I cringed enough at "buttery", I couldn't have handled the "magic" of alternative presentation styles.

I feel pretty safe in saying that IO is... pretty geeky.