Something I picked up recently in San Francisco. OK I don’t own it, but got to play with one waiting in a queue and talking to a developer waiting to get into a function at the conference I was attending. I was impressed. It looks a bit weird, but you ignore it until you want to look at it, at which point you look up and to the right a little and there, apparently a foot or so from your head is a little TV screen.
I liked the way they’d set up the interface which, as we’ve known ever since the Mac is the secret source of a great IT product like this. You talk to it and ask it to look stuff up, show you stuff, take pictures etc. And you can gesture to it by running your finger along the side of the black plastic near the eye-piece. This works like a scroll bar or dial and you can replay your day and generally use it to help you access files. One of the people in the queue said that it would likely replace a lot of smartphone use. One’s phone would stay in one’s pocket and you could use Google Glass to consult it most of the time, and you would then take out your smartphone when it was particularly apposite. I don’t know if that will happen, but I could see why he thought that.
Anyway, I was impressed. I doubt I want to be a leading edge user, but when they get it (even) better and cheaper, I might well be in for my chop.
How does it work if you already have glasses? Are you able to attach other lenses to it? Otherwise it would look rather awkward to have to go over other glasses’ frames.
It might almost pay for itself if you can attach lenses to it and not have to pay for other frames.
It sits above your glasses. It looks weird with glasses. And of course it looks entirely normal to have a tv screen hovering above your right eye without glasses. I meant to add to my post, that I doubt I want to run round wearing one of these, though I might do it if I was on a tour or doing something for which GG was particularly useful. I can imagine it being very useful in factories and perhaps offices and places where people are focused on productivity. Then again, I can’t imagine myself feeling OK about running round with an earpiece sticking out of my head, but I’ve been surprised at how many people are OK with that. And once it’s socially ‘normalised’ what’s the problem. It’s not annoying (because it’s above your normal field of vision) and I can imagine it being very handy.
Oh well, I guess the next generation will remove them for sex. (Then again, maybe not).
They will probably publish a Google Glass step by step “how to” sex guide app: “Now moan softly and begin rubbing clitoris gently etc.”
expect that global position system, could take on a whole new meaning.
Go straight at the roundabout
Now that’s, really kinky.
PS imagine the pain that could be caused by malicious hacking of the Google Glasses ; KamaSutra , position App?