Project Glass: Apple, Facebook Should Be Terrified Of Google Eyewear

TechCrunch:

Google’s augmented reality eyewear is coming to disrupt your face and your business model. If you don’t even have to pull your phone out to take a photo, get directions, or message with friends, why would you need to buy the latest iPhone or spend so much time on Facebook?

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[farleft1917]

06:47 PM on 04/05/2012

Indeed they should be scared. I'm part of demographic that should not be interested. I have to wear glasses now for reading but the idea of having augmented viewing without having to fumble for a phone to see where I am or answer a call is too perfect.
I'd pay $600 for something like this, maybe double if it works out of the box. Also it could be secured by a retina scan meaning I'd no longer need my credit cards.

[Tulka2]

04:57 PM on 04/05/2012

Since it looks as if every device gets smaller...? That has to be a plus for the planet's resources.

[NHBill]

03:29 PM on 04/05/2012

MIT geeks were walking wound with Borg like glasses 15 years ago.
Certainly Apple has something like this in the lab.
But seeing how wearing bluetooth headsets is cause for ridicule I wouldn't be too sure about this.
It looks like the next Segway to me,

[STUPIDgit]

01:30 PM on 04/05/2012

If history repeats itself, the Google product will launch, fail, and a few months later Apple will introduce the iEye and dominate the market.

[pcplz]

01:21 PM on 04/05/2012

Well....I am a people watcher and think I would enjoy myself very much watching people bumping into walls and doors and other people as they communicate with their glasses. Can you just imagine? Grand Station with everyone having people and messages flashing in front of their eyes. haha.....smack...boom......splat....fall down....miss a step...fall down escalator......

[Tulka2]

04:56 PM on 04/05/2012

....on the other hand....?  Perhaps the tech-autistic people would be looking up and not into their palm.....?  Perhaps eye-contact would be easier...?

[madame fate]

12:57 PM on 04/05/2012

Buh bye smart phones. Google's comin to town. Now we will all look like we are schizophrenic, walking around talking to no 'body' just the glasses.

I'm kind of interested to see where this will go. Wonder what the cost will be? If it's less than an iphone I would consider it. But for people who wear glasses how will the google glasses fit? hmm So many questions.

[DoLoveLife]

12:52 PM on 04/05/2012

We all should be terrified of these glasses! Instead of helping people 'be here, now' it is another thing to effectively take people's attention away.... You think driving with a cell phone is dangerous? Uch, I sound like my mom when she was resistant to having the new technology of an answering machine.... But I really can't see this as an improvement on the general state of humankind beyond it being cool technology... Sigh,

[mdemploi]

12:40 PM on 04/05/2012

Now who's the bully?

[zippy335]

12:36 PM on 04/05/2012

We will be so busy recording our lives that we will not be living them.

[Phillip Rhoades]

12:32 PM on 04/05/2012

Great, a bunch of people talking to themselves or dictating Facebook posts as they drive and walk down sidewalks.

Interacting with humans face-to-face is actually free and quit fun.

[madame fate]

12:57 PM on 04/05/2012

Radical! ;)

[chemguy]

01:29 PM on 04/05/2012

"Interacting with humans face-to-face is actually free and quit fun. "
Yet, here you are; interacting with total strangers over an anonymous electronic medium.

[Phillip Rhoades]

01:37 PM on 04/05/2012

Yep. I spend time on the computer, that is obvious. Its a different step to plug yourself into a headset during an endeavor that historically involves interaction than to play on the net while alone.

PS.....my posts aren't anonymous on purpose.

[chuk98death]

12:26 PM on 04/05/2012

They just gotta camouflage it a bit. Everyone is gonna know you have a recorder one on your face with one of those on.

[madame fate]

01:01 PM on 04/05/2012

I think I'll wait for the implantable usb port for my temple and the snap on google device. Glasses are too clunky, IMO.

[Zagman]

12:08 PM on 04/05/2012

GET OUT OF MY FACE!

[donaldinks]

11:37 AM on 04/05/2012

You know what?

SOME of humanity doesn't care to be "assimilated into the collective"!

SOME of us care to KEEP the HUMAN in HUMANity.

http://www.freewebs.com/trek_obsessed3452/startrek-borg.jpg

[GlenRastell]

11:34 AM on 04/05/2012

The people who should be terrified are the drivers who have to share the road with the morons wearing them and not paying attention to their driving. I have lost count of the times I have had to dodge texting idiots drifting into my lane.

[Indiegirl99]

01:56 PM on 04/05/2012

No kidding, I get so angry when I see some one texting and driving. Is some one's life really less important than whatever message you are typing out? Not looking forward to these glasses at all.

[Ginzu Mawa]

11:24 AM on 04/05/2012

Anyone following tech trends has knoen about AR HUD glasses for decades. there are several companies already in the game.

Googles glasses are important because they are the first big company to fully push them. As stated in teh article they are fully the future. Sorry to detractors. You just dont know enough about the AR apps that already exist and fit better w glasses.

Im sure apple is already working on these things. I read an interview with the head of Microsofts Kinect development team ... the killer app they were excited about was obviously an AR glasses app.

so if you play sports - the ar glasses can track your golf balls. or can help follow a fly ball. or tell you how many mph the pitch went. or provide comparitive flight paths of multiple pitches.

if you cook, ar glasses apps can walk you throug recipes with visual graphical step by step information.

if you want to do home repair or fix a car, the glasses can walk you through that stuff as well. they already have apps for the military mechanics and for dealership mechanics. the glasses will use graphics to highlight the parts and where they go and would allow any joe off the street to perform complex steps.

ar glasses can identify sex offenders and criminals in your neighborhood. they can function as a flight recorder black box - to deter crime. etc etc

[madame fate]

12:59 PM on 04/05/2012

Yeah, but will it tell me which wire to cut? The red one or the blue one...

[Ginzu Mawa]

02:34 PM on 04/06/2012

something like this? (from 2009) http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/23800/