Also, Hangouts is G+ best feature but sadly it is really hard to get people together on it. Why when I invite someone do they not get an email or IM?? They only get notified within g+ itself and it isn't easy to find the invite. On recent jobs several times I've tried to get meetings together on g+ only to resort back to conference calls (!!? WTF??) every time because people couldn't get on the Hangout. That is a real shame.
(I worked for a guy who was doing this in the 1980s, with ~50 pounds of equipment in a backpack, a 5W radio transmitter on his head, etc.)
Isn’t that the description of any smartphone available for a few years now? Remove the screen and you can shrink it almost at will.
Project Glass is interesting, I’m curious about the display tech, but this demo didn’t show anything new.
Then why hasn't that happened yet for a few years now, you think? Maybe your assumption "you can shrink it almost at will" is a bit simplistic?
I have been doing that with my phone for a few years.
Also, look at the part of the glasses behind the ear, now look at any recent smartphone teardown and see how they compare in size.
I’m sure Project Glass will eventually be interesting, this demo was really cool, but hardly a technological achievement. You can do the same thing by strapping a phone to your helmet.
> I’m sure Project Glass will eventually be interesting, this demo was really cool, but hardly a technological achievement. You can do the same thing by strapping a phone to your helmet.
Yeah... you don't see any technical challenges going from the latter to the former? Sounds like you made up your mind a "years ago" when this apparently already existed.
You don't sound like someone interested in having a conversation. Have a good day.
But when Apple copies Android's notification center (which has now been massively bumped in JB) that is a huge thing and everyone is up in arms about what sort of geniuses the people at Apple are.
Sure.
Live, two-way audio/video-streaming from AR computer glasses during a freakin' parashoot jump over regular cellular networks however, that is not really that much of a big thing?
Excuse me. What standards are you applying to whom where?
Met with GOOG employees today who were testing newer versions, better resolution & new comms. I wasn't allowed to wear it but it looks bulkier than I imagined.
The odd thing is, during a meeting with an employee who was wearing Glass, it was hard to figure out where to focus my eyes on their face -- it was like talking to someone with a lazy eye.
They need to hire the TED guys as consultants and institute the same sort of preparation that Apple puts into their conferences.
In any case, 99% of the designers I work with and 75% of the developers have iPhone/Mac and don't use either Android or gchat although they all have gmail/google accounts. So if they got an email they would be notified, otherwise, they never know.
Without the link it is also really hard to just tell people to go to G+. The way to join the hangout if you don't have a link is hard to find
This is not just an opinion, like I said, I actually tried to set up hangouts several times and these are the reasons it failed. Just my experience.
Also, I don't know what you found boring. Did you want more faux wood and plastic or more fancy words? I mean, I cringed enough at "buttery", I couldn't have handled the "magic" of alternative presentation styles.
I feel pretty safe in saying that IO is... pretty geeky.