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What is the purpose/point of google glass?

From 97% of news articles / reviews google glass is a voice activated camera. While this is mildly interesting it's the only use anyone has for the device. Who cares about this feature? It's not especially new, exciting or a good user experience.

If google could distill google glass into a single statement like "1000 songs in your pocket" we might understand it.

What is the equivalent statement for google glass?

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I would have said "hands-free city navigation", but everyone - Google, the "explorers", people who meet them in the street - seems to be preoccupied with the photo/video applications. I don't know if that's because the device is actually defective for that purpose in some unobvious way, or because people just can't look beyond the video-recording use (or if not that, the notification-firehose one).

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