Comment by bane | Hacker News Reader

Comment by bane | Hacker News Reader

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I appreciate this review, and I agree with him 100% on the price point. Had I been in the audience I wouldn't raise my hand till $200-300 either ($1500 is almost comically absurd). But at the same time, I'm gonna wait no matter what till it does more. A head mounted camera (which seems to make up the bulk of the advertising use-cases for it) just isn't important to me...at all.

I think the head mounted navigation stuff could be very useful, but I can barely get my Android phone to understand spoken address searches right now, and I don't mind having it shout out directions to me. I'm not sure I need to pay a few hundred bucks to get the directions up on my face.

The one thing that I hope somebody creates an app for is a quick barcode/item scanner and price lookup app. Just tell me what the best price is for an item I'm looking at and where I can get it. I've tried a few phone apps for this, but the experience is atrocious.

But is it worth $200-300 for those limited use cases? I dunno. I really am going to wait and see.

IMO, at that price point, the real question is "is it worth it to wear them and look like one of those guys that walks around with a Bluetooth earpiece in at all times"?

On the one hand, we're entering a world where Neal Stephenson's "gargoyles" actually exist. On the other hand, the equipment they'll be carrying around is way, way, way smaller than he envisioned.

You don't want to look like this?

https://plus.google.com/photos/+Scobleizer/albums/5870920743...

Not just the price. Have it tell you any one of a number of information types that you personally value. Such as if that item has any ingredients that you have blacklisted (or your doctor has). Have it show you a "Pollan-score" for the item or reviews of it by experts and/or friends. Have it tell you a guess at what ratio of the price will go to corporations that you do and don't like the politics of. Did it get shipped on a boat that has a carbon-emission rating that is higher than you like? Is there another brand sold at this store that more closely matches your preferences, and if so what does their packaging look like?

Customers have had their information stream systematically filtered/impoverished by those who would rather not have the invisible hand of the market move in response to some subgroups' aggregate utility evaluations. Information at the point of choice can alter these dynamics.

I think the advertising focus on the camera is actually brilliant. Look at facebook, and instagram. Outside the hacker circle, instant updates mean very little. Quick photos are cool. Eventually people will start seeing the value in a HUD, but for now its probably too futuristic for a majority of people. Instant photo's really aren't.

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