Sergey is an interesting character. He's so brutally honest and unrefined. There's no trace of corporate bullshit, no fear of saying anything wrong about Google (although he did correct himself over eBay).<p>He's awkward. Says "er" a lot. Makes jokes about competitors. Admits that Glass hasn't succeeded yet. Criticises mobile phones (I assume it's a Nexus 4). Says his wife slaps him.<p>No CEO would do any of this. It's refreshing to see a company spokesperson so "normal".
Site wasn't working for me.<p>I think this is the video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rie-hPVJ7Sw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rie-hPVJ7Sw</a>
The most boring presentation ever. He is like, so i created google, so i don't have to make an effort to show excitement in my new product, that's for the marketing and sales.<p>No onstage demo, jizuz i always present my stuff live ! that's where the emotions are.
Still don't like it. Maybe we'll be the ones that people laugh at in the future, like we do now with the ones that said that Internet was just a fad.
But consider, doesn't this mean that many people will let computerized glasses do all the thinking for them? It has been very much debated how now we don't memorize so many information anymore, as we can easily just solve an argument with a simple search on our phones. But this Google Glass is just taking it to another level..
Even if Glass isn't the right implementation, I love the fact that Google are trying to make something Minority Report-level wacky a mainstream consumer item.
"If I had glass" on Yahoo and Bing:<p><a href="http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=Agw0sPNuxbiST6yjUH1P2j6bvZx4?p=if+i+had+glass&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-900" rel="nofollow">http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=Agw0sPNuxbiST6yjUH1P2j6b...</a><p><a href="http://www.bing.com/search?q=if+i+had+glass&go=&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=if+i+had+glass&sc=1-14&sp=-1&sk=&ghc=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.bing.com/search?q=if+i+had+glass&go=&qs=n...</a><p>and Google<p><a href="https://www.google.com/?q=if%20i%20had%20glass#hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=if+i+had+glass&oq=if+i+had+glass&gs_l=hp.12...0.0.0.2156.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1c..7.psy-ab.I9Ce-uDAX8A&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.44158598,d.dmQ&fp=2bfa96fe02dccb7&biw=1847&bih=959" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/?q=if%20i%20had%20glass#hl=en&new...</a>
He says that they designed Glass to free up your hands and eyes and ears, but that is only true when you're not using it. When you are using it you're using your hands to scroll, your eyes to look at the screen, and you are still listening for what it has to say. How is this different from a phone?<p>When your phone is in your pocket your hands and eyes and ears are free but when you are using it they're not. The only difference seems to be looking up and slightly cross-eyed and not down.<p>If Glass becomes a success, I fail to see how it would bring people out of the bubble they're in when using a phone. It seems like Glass just moves the bubble.
<a href="http://glass-apps.org/google-glass-anime" rel="nofollow">http://glass-apps.org/google-glass-anime</a>
I've seen a very good anime about augmented reality. There are really nice glasses that are barely visible on your face. I hope google glass will be as fashionable as that some day:
I have a question: Would anyone still be bothered by all the privacy stuff if Glass didn't have a camera?<p>I guess then it'd be a redundant technology (is there such a thing?), but I assume people wouldn't be so concerned about their privacy as well, right?