| | A note (OK, several notes) about Google Glass
So, these last few months, obituaries and/or rebirth-to-come notices have appeared on the Internets. And frankly I do not disagree, on balance, with them. But having experienced Google Glass, I have a couple observations about its soon-to-be-discontinued iteration. First, what others have to say, from the top:
Mashable | Why I'm breaking up with Google Glass (17 November 2014)
TechCrunch | As Developers Depart, Google Glass Is Ready To Become This Era’s Segway (15 Nov 2014)
Time Magazine | Why Google Glass Isn’t the Future (24 November 2014)
Forbes | Intel To Replace TI In The New Version Of Google Glass (1 December 2014)
My somewhat attenuated experience with Google Glass confirms its identification as a beta test program. Frankly, Google Glass 1.0 was a piece of crap. It got way too hot too quickly (processor was not ready), it had a halfwit swipe interface on its arm, and its battery life was far too short.
Gizmodo | Google Packs Up Glass Explorer Program, Vows to Try Again (15 January 2015)
All that said, Google Glass had/has potential. The closer you (meaning Google in this instance) get to our five (six? seven?) human senses, the more useful you will become. This first iteration of Google Glass was all about vision, plus the crude, badly implemented additions of finger swipe-swipe-swipe and voice.
Those issues can be fixed. The question is ... how?
Google has enough smart people to figure it out.
Unless they can't. Which would be too bad. My guess is they will. Ideally (for them) before someone else does. Could the new Microsoft be the entity to get it right? Too soon to tell. |
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