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Those are the use cases ? Are they serious ? Not a single one of those occurs routinely enough to warrant you wearing glasses all the time.

I don't understand why they aren't positioning this for more serious markets e.g. education, training, factories, stock taking, hospitals, administration etc. Could have been far more interesting and allowed some far more interesting tie ins with their existing products.

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"Those are the use cases ?"

Those and making pornos. I see a whole Glass getting its very own tag.

I don't think so. "GoPro" isn't a common tag either.

None of those "professional" use cases you cite are as exciting, or as sexy in a demo video, as the "personal" use cases in the video.

Some of us wear glasses all the time anyway.

Finally, our previous disadvantage will now become our social advantage!!

Only less squinting this time.

well, they're asking you what you would do with it, right? keep in mind this is a developer edition, so they most likely want people to come up with new ideas of apps and use cases that they did not even think about, not just tell them what you would record with them or where you would take a picture without using your hands, we already know that glass can do that!

I think the marketing push is to make it socially acceptable. Their utility in the workplace is obvious.

I'm guessing all that is coming when developers start writing for Glass.

Recording playing with my kid seems very compelling to me.

The videos are very reminiscient of the GoPro demos.

I doubt it's robust and stable enough to use in a hospital yet.

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