Use weather channel, accuweather widget. Use flip book widget. Download an app that has a widget...ADVERTISING on your phone. LOL...advertising is more than banner ads. Promote as a short cut....it's an ad. Take it from someone who has been in Sales for almost 20 years....with a Marketing degree. No, not all widgets are explicitly advertising.....but many are. The genius is that the user doesn't think something is being pushed upon them. As for Chrome, Google has integrated their whole ecosystem to push their products (u sign into your google account which is integrated into Android.) such as google+, YouTube, Drive, etc......which is a form of Advertising. Marketing 101...
Yeah now that there's a better example, seems to work in SPECIFIC situations where you'd need it. Not for full time all-day use for everything. Hands-free offers some advantages, but some things still require concentration. (Mostly driving, dangerous crossings, etc). Put 'Em ON the "Glass"! for real now Its still an aesthetically less attractive look on a person. When people are at the bar/club/party events, is all the people there wearing Google Glasses a good look?
It looks like the corner display is optional or comes on contextually. If these become really popular, voice recognition would have to be able to uniquely identify each owner. I can see these taking off 5 years from now if we make some advancements in battery and cellular coverage. Worse case I can see these as a niche product in the tourism sector. Rent them out to let tourist explore a place that will direct them to attractions. Give historically information on sites, background on art work, places to eat, and transportation to take. Take photo/videos that you can buy later.
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Engadgets review. http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/30/google-glass-review/ One thing that I didn't think about that is interesting is the privacy concern regarding all the recording that goes on with this thing. There's no indicator to show that it's recording so when you're doing so in a public place, I can see it becoming a problem if people aren't aware that they're being recorded. <iframe id="viddler-9db68ac9" src="//www.viddler.com/embed/9db68ac9/?f=1&offset=0&autoplay=0&secret=46872752&disablebranding=0&view_secret=46872752" width="545" height="349" frameborder="0" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true"></iframe>
this article from a journalist who tried out Glass for several weeks is hilarious and terrifying http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/through-google-glass-darkly_787020.html
Glass seems to have lost a lot of momentum. It's definitely not going to be an instant hit, regardless of the price.
I guess these are up for sale now, explorer edition. I guess it's a beta version or something? I don't know. $1500 though. https://glass.google.com/getglass/s..._campaign=Q3&dclid=CMaBs_C6_b8CFQhYMAodPWEAtg I'm tempted. I just hate wearing glasses though, ha.
I think the privacy issue will actually subside quickly. People are already desensitized to cameras and strangers recording them. This is just the next step and I suspect people will forget it was ever an issue in just a couple of years. Or maybe I'm desensitized due to living with a 10 year old who facetimes 24/7.
It's like facebook. Initially people reacted with indignation when they learned about how all their information on facebook was really not protected at all, and how things could be used against them. In short time, however, people also realized that this is the way of the new world, and EVERYTHING they do outside their homes, including online, should not be considered safe from the eyes of others. It's called behaving responsibly. So what if facebook is just that much more boring now that people are safeguarding against professional liability while posting on it? That's probably the way it always should have been. You want privacy, go meet your friend in person and talk to them then.
Possibly, since this is the equivalent of someone holding up a cellphone and pointing it at your face continuously while you talk to them. Or of strangers doing the same thing as they pass you. There's a big enough difference here that I think it's a large obstacle to overcome for acceptance. I think it's interesting and would love to try one, but I don't think this iteration is anything more than a novelty that doesn't gain much traction. Google probably hurt their chances by letting this thing stall and get broken down by every article and blog under the sun while they were nowhere near ready for a correctly priced consumer version. Maybe curiosity will be enough for a good sales surge whenever they actually release a standard retail version, but at this point I'm not sure it'll ever be more than that. At least not in this form.
I had multiple opportunities to buy this. I passed every time. There's just no reason right now for the mass to purchase it. It's still a beta test obviously (PROJECT Glass). Once they do a new release that works out all the kinks of GLASS and add to the app library, I may bite.
