Two thoughts
1. The dork factor is still in play here. I don't see this being popular by any means, so there needs to be a killer app.
2. I need to see a nice AR game like Pokemon GO integrated with this. I imagine that's the first/best killer app.
1. The dork factor is still in play here. I don't see this being popular by any means, so there needs to be a killer app.
2. I need to see a nice AR game like Pokemon GO integrated with this. I imagine that's the first/best killer app.
The number of people from young kids to grandmas running around in groups was _insanely_ cool to see. I'm sad there simply wasn't enough content to keep it up the drive. I wanted to do missions/dungeon crawls/talk to NPCs etc.
This would have made the go experience 100x more fun... can you imagine a Charizard standing on top of my local mall?! omg. All of us using our captures to take over an objective.
We're nearly there.
This is where I think Glass got it wrong. They made it feel exclusive when they should've been giving them away.
Waving a stick around and shouting fireball while wearing a goofy headset is, at present, still unacceptable.
Whoever gets the AR glasses that look like glasses out first wins the game.
After watching the HoloKit press, though, I should be thankful for silent and grouped up as opposed to running around in a crowded area being an annoying jackass.
I guess I mention this because I suspect that without phones, we might have chatted with one another, got to know one another while we waited for the bus to arrive.
Oh well.
If I'm an employee on a company bus, I'm just as likely to be a (mostly) silent meeting attendee on a status meeting as listening to an audiobook or podcast. Sometimes I've done this and just communicated via meeting chat to give feedback/add to meeting discussion.
Without phones, I'd probably be WFH so I could attend the meeting.
Was it socially acceptable to use a brick sized phone?
Tech evolves, I am sure the size of the glasses will reduce.
A lot of infrastructure and data would be needed before it reaches a critical mass and mass adoption follows. The more people using it, the more data there is in the system, the more people want to use it.
Another really great feature would be captions for conversations going on around you - a big help for the hearing impaired, and maybe even helpful to ordinary people to keep better track of the conversation flow.