> Many were using their cellphones while wearing the glasses — defeating a declared purpose of the new gadget, to free you from having to look at your phone. Another man continually looked at his watch to check the time, even through the glasses display a clock right above your eye.
I get that the author is trying to be humorous but I fear that some people may take some of his criticisms seriously. AFAIK nobody has declared that the purpose of Glass is to "free us from having to look at [oure] phone[s]". It simply makes certain functions more convenient than using a phone, in certain situations. Let's also not forget that Glass' functionality is pretty limited at this point, so people using their phones while using Glass were most likely using an app with functionality that isn't offered by Glass yet.. like browsing the web.
Glass is going to take off with the active crowd. It's perfect for people who either have jobs or hobbies that require the extended use of their hands. Think cyclists, police officers, postal workers, construction foremen, taxi drivers, etc. I feel like it's journalistically sloppy to criticize Glass for the (I feel) false premise that everybody is going to be wearing Glass all the time. The OP was at Google IO for crying out loud, of course you're going to have a bunch of early adopters walking around with Glass' on their face.
> AFAIK nobody has declared that the purpose of Glass is to "free us from having to look at [oure] phone[s]".
Here's a quote on that topic from Isabelle Olsson, lead industrial designer for Google Glass:
"One day, I went to work — I live in SF and I have to commute to Mountain View and there are these shuttles — I went to the shuttle stop and I saw a line of not 10 people but 15 people standing in a row like this," she puts her head down and mimics someone poking at a smartphone. "I don’t want to do that, you know? I don’t want to be that person. That’s when it dawned on me that, OK, we have to make this work. It’s bold. It’s crazy. But we think that we can do something cool with it."
I still read that as a very specific use case. I very much doubt that if you were to ask her if Glass would eventually remove the need for a phone altogether she would say yes.
That doesn't seem like a specific use case at all. Where the person happens to be standing when they are using their phone is unrelated to the example, really.
Brin asks: “Is this the way you’re meant to interact with other people?” Is the future of connection just people walking around hunched up, looking down, rubbing a featureless piece of glass?
> Glass is going to take off with the active crowd. It's perfect for people who either have jobs or hobbies that require the extended use of their hands.
I think Recon is not getting enough recognition. They have been selling a real product for a couple of years and now they announced a new one http://jet.reconinstruments.com
I get that the author is trying to be humorous but I fear that some people may take some of his criticisms seriously. AFAIK nobody has declared that the purpose of Glass is to "free us from having to look at [oure] phone[s]". It simply makes certain functions more convenient than using a phone, in certain situations. Let's also not forget that Glass' functionality is pretty limited at this point, so people using their phones while using Glass were most likely using an app with functionality that isn't offered by Glass yet.. like browsing the web.
Glass is going to take off with the active crowd. It's perfect for people who either have jobs or hobbies that require the extended use of their hands. Think cyclists, police officers, postal workers, construction foremen, taxi drivers, etc. I feel like it's journalistically sloppy to criticize Glass for the (I feel) false premise that everybody is going to be wearing Glass all the time. The OP was at Google IO for crying out loud, of course you're going to have a bunch of early adopters walking around with Glass' on their face.