[amikula]

It seems to me that Glass wouldn't have suffered half the backlash it got if the original release had excluded the camera. Even if everybody was just grumbling about how useless the product was without a camera, people still would have bought it, and it probably wouldn't have gotten half the bans or negative press it ended up getting.

[shadowmint]

That's always been the problem with glass; it's not an AR application platform, it's just an awkward mini-screen floating in the middle of your face.

Without a camera it would have been so pointless no one would have bothered to look at it.

(seriously, can you imagine the sky diving demo sans camera? 'What was thing thing on his face?' 'No idea, I think it was showing him tweets or something')

[bduerst]

That's doubtful.

It was a $1500 accessory that never really solved a common problem. Many confused it with Augmented Reality, even the top comment on HN.

If anything, it's analogous to the segway - ie. an expensive, niche piece of technology seen as a novelty.