Friday, January 2, 2015

Google Glass Competitors

Google's approach with Glass was to provide the wearer with what it called "glanceable" information, shown on a virtual screen just above the right eye. By building Glass this way, Google was making a clear statement: it's for ultra-convenient and hands-free access to very specific information such as news and updates and sharing using internet phones and other communication services. Glass is intended to complement the moment you're experiencing, not take you out of it. What if that is not what people are looking for? Augmented reality and by extension, virtual reality, might be something that people are looking for according to several trends. Epson's Moverio glasses change the game and the whole screen can be a digital display. The glasses run at $700 but the bulk and the cord that is attached to the side makes it something that needs a lot of improvements if more people are going to be wearing it. Also, I think that the middle ground between reality and virtual reality that we call augmented reality is just hype. We like both sides of the spectrum, not the middle.

4 comments:

  1. As hard as people try to put communications services and glasses together, they will not go. In this case, there is really is no middle.

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  2. When it comes to internet phone services, wouldn't you want to see the person and not what they are seeing? It don't think it would be that interesting and not worth the tech.

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  3. Internet phones should also stay out of cars. It is just a distraction.

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  4. It would be cool to see communication services extend into virtual reality. We can then meet in virtual reality.

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