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It's so funny to watch all of these tech companies try to make Google glass again like the concept didn't fall flat on its face a decade ago.
Only a small handful of people are interested in the idea, and the general public hates them.
They’re trying to create a new something. and there doesn’t seem to be another idea. The iPhone really only blew up the world because of the quality of its execution. The idea had been bouncing along for a long time. So every asshole thinks “we’ll just execute right and nail this thing.”
The thought they have immediately before or after is also, "I'm the next Steve Jobs." It's always about the ego before any product or need.
Their situation is: they’re a tired social media site that is traded on the stock exchange and it’s just all downhill for them unless they change something big. They do want to be Steve Jobs, the guy who created a trillion dollar platform ecosystem, and they think hey we can use our social media site as one big ad for it to get things going. What else are you going to do with a tired social media property? You can at least fool some shareholders by telling them no, we have a whole new chapter about to begin. It’s a stupid game, I think driven more by market capitalism than personal ego, though of course there’s also plenty of that.
You clearly don't understand. Google glasses didn't have Augmented reality.
With these AR glasses you can have fluffy fur balls in different colors that jump around you everywhere you go.
If that isn't worth $2200 to look like an idiot, IDK what is?
Google Glass was like the 3rd time this tech has fallen on its face. I mentioned this before recently but I can remember when Sony had some that used a CD-ROM Walkman for the HUD data. They were going to be on the face of every engine mechanic by the end of the 90s…
For it to be desirable, the form factor needs to be indistinguishable from normal sunglasses or specs. With current technology it's not even close to being achievable. The battery tech just isn't there for starters. I have no idea why big tech thought this was just around the corner and thought just throwing money at an impossible problem would just make it possible.
Because the executives have no technical understanding, but can't stand that thought. They see themselves as genius visionaries whose whole job is to see possibilities. It'd be terribly uncomfortable for their self-esteem to concede that their visions are brutally detached from reality and the possibilities they think they see are hallucinations.
The idea is sound. Give it 10 years to mature further. The public cares about privacy less than you think, just look at the past 20 years.
Hates? No. Not even near. Just cannot afford.
No, people still like a lot of things that they can't afford. People hate these things because they are a privacy nightmare with minimal practical application.
People do not hate glasses. All that hatred exists only in small hysteria bubble. Put a $100 price on them and in a few days half of people would use them.
In this case it's both.
Not true, lot's of people can easily afford these.
And a shitload of people can if they really want them.
The rest can pay over multiple years, in easy to afford monthly payments. /s
Meaning the people that can't really afford them, can buy them anyway and pay twice the price with interest.
Would you daily wear them if they were giving this for free at an event?
People is paying this kind of money to do an operation to remove glasses, then they introduce the "master of glasses", that weigh like 20 glasses
Depends on the software part. If there will be freedom of compiling\installing arbitrary software then yes. I'm sure in this case it would be full of very interesting things in no time. But if it would be "fenced" like META does with their VR headsets, then those glasses would be almost useless.