What an amazing thing. Google is likely to fail in making Glass successful for a variety of reasons, not the least of which it is a new product in a new space with limited customer experience and high creepiness. So these folks decide to "compete" with that concept?<p>Technologically heads up micro-displays are a disaster. There has been <i>billions</i> of dollars spent in this space and only <i>millions</i> in revenue. Its a space I've been pretty interested in, (even has a couple of pairs of lame versions) but the problem is so large that even the sub-problems are multi-hundred thousand dollar projects.<p>I completely understand the desire to run at the problem, but use of indiegogo here? My fear is that crowd funding is this generation of entrepreneurs "dot com bubble."
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I’m not sure I buy the rationale. The person in the video says he receives so many text messages (he names emails, tweets, facebook updates) that he decided to build a device to see them right in front of his eye as they come in.<p>It occurs to me that having emails, tweets or facebook updates alert you is hugely distracting. Personally, I would probably allow SMS on Glass, though, given that they are — in my filter bubble — usually important, used when coordinating and occur rarely enough that it doesn’t distract me. But email? No way!
GlassUp lacks a fair amount of fundamentals that are going to hurt.<p>1) The green text in the middle of the eye is fairly annoying (at least I think it would be)<p>2) GlassUp seems to not be very well balanced<p>3) The inability to send data isn't very promising<p>4) Google has the best maps/navigation thus far, so it seems the GlassUp would be at a disadvantage (then again for the price who knows, it might be worth it).<p>5) A lot more intrusive that Google Glass
New rival? I'm not so sure. From the Indiegogo page[1], for $299 you can get the "Pre-release Buggy Version." With that type of wording and the recent track record of crowdfunded hardware projects, yes please take my money!!!<p>[1] <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/glassup-augmented-reality-glasses-that-display-messages-from-your-smartphone" rel="nofollow">http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/glassup-augmented-reality-...</a>
This looks too distracting for me. Google Glass in is the corner, so you have to go out of your way to look at it. This takes up the center of your vision, forcing you to see it.
I do need and use eyeglasses to be able to drive.<p>I don't see any indication if the lens can be formulated, it seems like a huge omission to me.
wow. very critical comments here, none of which I see are a challenge in overcoming. For example<p>1. Text in the middle: They could move this to the side or the bottom or anywhere else since it seems like it is projected. Google Glass cannot do this.<p>2. Color of text. I'm sure that can be addressed with alternate colors.<p>3. Cannot take input other than a smartphone: You mean a camera (listed as an option)? Not sure what else would apply<p>I'm more surprised no one else has positive comments
1. $199 vs $1500
2. Everyone has a phone today. I seriously doubt anyone using glass is giving that up soon. So, why not just tie the device to your phone. Why replace it?
3. Once it is tied to the phone, the app can just communicate with device. If this actually works and gets adoption, app developers will work on integration. The biggest down is that Google will not which means (as someone else pointed out) no maps integration. That would be a shame.<p>I don't know if this is the product that will make it. But I know they have the right idea over Google in terms of demand. If google made this at $200-$300 instead of glass, I'd have pre-ordered.