If I had a way of getting $1500 and a way of getting to one of those cities, I would be all over this... I'll *promote this instead and hope somebody from the Sift wins and reports back to us what it is like.

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 5:13am PST - promote requested by original submitter RFlagg.

Does anyone think any of this was filmed with Glass?

Wait a minute... There are no glasses? Just frames?

Your move GoPro.

I don't think I need these... who needs to see me playing MMO's on my computer?

OK glass, show me some porn.

Neat. Until the ads start showing up.

And they will...

#ifihadglass - I would fly planes, go on hot air balloon rides, fence, become a model, play ping pong, go on rollercoasters. All thanks to Glass!

looks like i'm going to be eating ramen for a few months

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I want to be jaded about this ... but hot damn, looks like we're finally living in the future!

Yep, for speccies like myself not an issue but interesting choice for 20-20 sighted people.

The key thing for this tech is the integration with Android phones.

OK, glass, edit out the last 90 seconds of me jerking off to /r/gonewild.

This looks like the equivalence of a beer commercial.
The creation of fake reality to film themselves test the product. Every instance screams fake to me. Life just doesn't play out like it does in a commercial.

Glass can already completely replace your phone, why would you want to carry around both?

Unfounded assertion.

This is a move to increase search traffic by making Google more convenient to use on the go, then they can make an additional fortune off the same sort of data collection they do now.

When Android was just a rumor called "Google Phone", the tinfoil hats were saying you'd have to listen to a 30 second ad before making a call, or that your calls would have commercial breaks. My guess is, 4 years after Glass finally launches, you'll look just as silly as they do.

I think that is rather optimistic. Phones are going to be around for quite a while.
Google are a long way from bringing a finished product to market and when they do it will also try to complement Android.

I'd like to hear what sort of integration you have in mind, because I can't think of one that would be useful.

Glass is literally an Android phone in a new form factor. I haven't seen Glass doing anything yet that my phone doesn't do, the lone exception being attach itself to my face.

If they can solve the battery problem, I think they could bring Glass to market by 2015. That's not to say more traditional phones will be instantly be replaced but Glass will be able to fully replace the phone of those who do purchase it.

You're still getting a little too excited. This is a simulation. None of this is final. But even the promise of this does not obviate the need for a phone, The interface certainly does not have the richness of a phone. And I've not seen them suggest this is a phone replacement.

There are areas where it will struggle:

Simply being able to see a large amount of information from the device and without interfering with normal sight. With my phone I can read quickly and then be back in the real world by looking up. I don't see myself reading reams of data with this thing. I'd love to try though!

The interface is different/more limited. You lose haptic feedback and long-presses to expose different functionality. I'd love to see how good a feature-rich note-taking app will work. Voice-recognition is the most likely use.

But voice recognition remains difficult and performs variably.

And nothing to say of how slow it might be to change networks, adjust settings etc. Many things might be locked down to ensure a smooth experience for the average user.


So, integration (or how Glass will be useful).

Glass will serve as a nice entry-point into the phone experience. You could open the notifications in Glass but you might want to focus on recording some video.
Or you hover on a film poster and have IMDB open up the details on the phone. You might have a lot of these moments in a day. Imagine building up a list of pictures, quick ideas/notes, something useful someone said and then take your phone out only when you sit down. Everything is there for review. Glass might be a very good inbox.

I could instantly sync my photos. It's thus backed up on the phone straight away (and later on the net) and could be auto-shared - I don't need to issue copious voice instructions. Same with video. Glass will gather data but you might want it to hand stuff off to the phone. And net access isn't always guaranteed.

Looking up real world objects, scanning barcodes, even raw data and have it converted into usable data. You could hold up your phone but it's a nicer experience to have a document rendering onto your phone while you look at a page of data or even take a phone call. And you don't have to get the phone out of your pocket. Multi-tasking for the win!

I view pdfs and spreadsheets on my Note 2 all the time. I've not scanned much because it seems hit and miss and there's no cool software to do much with it. This would be amazing with my laptop. I often get printed documents or scraps of paper. Being able to instantly scan and digitise on the go would be almost revolutionary.

The point is Glass will be a very useful *extension* of the device you are already carrying around. Which people will be carrying around for many years to come.

I hope it's cheap as chips because getting it pinched off your face would be fun

@Deano

The sad thing is it looks like you're right about the phone calls which I think is a major mistake. It was confirmed today that Glass will tether to Android/iOS for 3G/4G data. That pretty much ends my interest in owning Glass.

I think excluding phone hardware from Glass is insanely stupid, but given that's the reality, I can't argue against the importance of integration anymore.

Hopefully in a few years they will truly integrate them into a single piece of hardware and then we will have a piece of hardware which might be worth buying. If Glass is just to be a glorified Bluetooth headset, I'd rather have contacts.

It's basically a case of manufacturing limitations at this point in time. In 10-20 years I've no doubt all the processing and storage could exist on a spec of dust and wearing it would be a non-issue but bloody hard to make it like that today.