Very excited about:
* how it enhances the external mind concept
* always on Bluetooth headphones (I think there are a lot of novel use cases that can spawn from this)
* Spaced repetition applications
* Building habits and changing behaviors (e.g. might be more inclined to build the habit of going to the gym if I had intelligently timed questions/feedback on the glasses)
* Life logging enhancements (picture notes and voice notes - I'm betting glass will encourage this more often)
I would love the ability to have OCR and being able to integrate that seamlessly into emails/txt/searches/etc.
Edit: I actually posted a short blog post about the pickup/first couple days of use: http://michaelevans.org/blog/2013/04/29/hands-on-with-google...
Do any of these apps overlay information into your field of vision/hearing about what you are looking at? If so, how is the performance (is it real time or laggy?), and is it distracting?
None of the third party apps are overlaying information in an augmented reality fashion. The performance is pretty good, the navigation maps turn smoothly when you turn, etc.
It is a little distracting, but not nearly as distracting as I was expecting.
Have you tested it outside a city?
The benefit would be that you could mount the camera in a less conspicuous way, perhaps as a more traditional looking bluetooth headset. Or, you could mount the camera wherever you wanted; facing behind you, on your bike handlebars, leave it at your car while you're at a restaurant, put it on your RC airplane, etc. The camera would communicate wireless with the wrist watch, which would have a microphone you could speak commands to, and perhaps additional buttons to control the camera or even a multitouch screen.
And why stop at one camera? You could pair multiple cameras to your watch and control them individually. Put one facing behind you and in front of you, or give one to your friend while you both play one-on-one basketball.
Glancing down at a watch doesn't seem that much less convenient than staring at a HUD projected into your eye, and there's a lot less stigma attached to wearing a watch than wearing the goofy looking Glass.
Just a thought, I don't know how viable it would be.
Glancing at a watch is essentially the same as glancing at a phone, and that's already too much time and effort for lots and lots of use cases (including a lot of Google Nowish things that could be alerted to you if you were likely to look immediately, but useless in two minutes).
The stigma will go away pretty quickly, except from the people who always object to trying new things.
You can't just "glance down at your phone", you have to take it out of your pocket first, and unlock it in most cases. Your watch is already in your peripheral view and very little effort is required to position it correctly and look down at it. I recently received my Pebble (http://getpebble.com) watch and you'll have to take my word for it. Being able to glance down at my watch to see text messages and caller ID's is much more natural and fluid than pulling my phone out of my pocket; especially when I'm sitting down.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/google-glass-googles-wearab...
I think the current research front is at around 2^8 or 2^9 pixels, perhaps. I'd feel pretty safe from being "eye-raped" by anything on such a display. Note that I mean total pixels, not "pixels squared", i.e. a couple of hundred pixels total.
Of course, a big always-on or annoyingly flashing block of color in your field of vision even with your eyes closed would be pretty annoying. But only until you've managed to take out the contact, which is not all that hard to do with some practice.
(Granted I'm sure they'll think about that during the design phase, and maybe not allow 100% opacity or something.)
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_administration_software
I will want one.
I hope they avoid the bluetooth headset problem - I hope they last longer and are more common than bluetooth headsets are now.
Wow, that's a pretty scathing statement. I wonder how many of the people who own a Glass in this thread are teenagers with stuff that doesn't matter.
Do you really need notifications from every place you have signed up the news letter while driving, while eating, while taking a look at the beautiful thing around you (in truuuuu HD, retina eyes provides you with truuuu HD, trust me).
Take a deep breath, open your eyes, look around you, do you see crazy people? Buy Google Glass and become one of them, join the dark insanely stupid legion controlled by Google.