I'm not surprised. They need somewhere to put the battery. Video processing is not a low-power activity.
No, actually, I am surprised. I figured there would be a thin cord down to something about the size of a cigarette pack on your belt or in your pocket.
Does it actually do video processing? My impression was it was a screen, touchpad, and camera (for taking pictures) you stuck on the side of your head.
They look much bigger than the previous pictures that I have seen. Wouldn't all that weight pushing down on the ear be uncomfortable after a few hours?
Sitting on a thin wallet day after day can screw up your spine alignment. Wearing a CPAP oxygen mask (for sleep apnea) night after night can shift the alignment of your teeth. If there's any weight to Google Glass at all, I imagine wearing this day after day could eventually have negative effects too.
I would probably aim to have it very gently hold on to the sides of your head, rather than simply sitting on the ear. I think that by spreading it out across the bridge of the nose, the tops of the ears, and the sides of the head, you could keep the pressure pretty low. I'd be most concerned about the battery--it's heavy, and may tend to get hot.
Maybe it's to counterweigh the camera at the other end? (and in addition provide power, as indicated below). Without a counterweight (or something to stabilize it) the "glasses" could rest a bit unstably on the nose with the camera and display. Of course a strap would also work, but then you would need that remote battery pack mentioned in the comments.
Yeah, it's like watching the Wright Brothers take off for the first time at Kitty Hawk, and complaining that Wilbur looks a bit silly lying down like that.
I'll be so pissed off if these Google Glasses can't interact with the iPhone just because Apple and Google are pissed off at each other... Those look great. Even just as a dumb display for my iPhone with some simple touchpad gestures on the side, I'd buy one.
Oh, I'm pretty sure they won't work together without some real collaboration between Apple and Google. Well, they have a year or two to sort their relationship out, I guess.
What happens depends on what interests Google more: driving the spread of Android through less-than-fully-aligned carriers, or gathering the data that everyone using these with iOS could provide. I'm guessing the latter.
Apple may respond not by blocking a fantastic bit of kit (which would infuriate customers) but by buying a company that has its own patents on similar technology and building on the play they made in buying C3 from Saab. I'm hoping the latter.
I don't know if this is the first shot of a non-white/black set but it seems we'll be getting a range of colours. I cannot wait to see the range so I can choose.
Splitting a PCB like that is really hard, electrically. Board level signals aren't designed to be run in parallel cables. At best you'd probably just put the battery on one side and the board on the other.
Looks amazing to me. Personally I wouldn't wear that. But given how small they already are they will probably be indistinguishable from normal shades within 2 years. And then I will wear that.
I can't remember where I read it but one journalist wrote something along the lines of "how Google Glass looks doesn't matter - that's nothing that a partnership with Armani won't fix". Whoever they were, they were right. I just hope that Google partners up with a variety of brands to make a number of different designs.
Anyway, no matter what they look like I will be there on day one. I don't normally subscribe immediately to new tech like this. Took me a year or two to get a smartphone and I still don't have a tablet, but Glass is different.
One more thing - I really, really hope that people will find a way to load new OSes onto Glass. The technology is fantastic but it won't reach its full potential if it's locked away.
I feel the same way. I don't even have a smartphone (I get all sorts of abuse from my friends for this :P), and yet I find myself publicly saying that I'm more likely to get Google Glass than iPhone5.
Keep in mind, I'm not sure Google has ever said that the version of Glass being shown publicly is the final form factor. When/if a commercial version is announced, it could look radically different.
I think most of the test fleet is still Toyotas. But if you're Sergey Brin and you show up with the President of Turkey then they let you borrow the Lexus.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 117 ms ] threadNo, actually, I am surprised. I figured there would be a thin cord down to something about the size of a cigarette pack on your belt or in your pocket.
I am incredibly excited for these, in any case.
They said that they used to carry a backpack before.
I'll still be first in line to get one.
How about the fact that a world leader was so excited about a self-driving car that he jumped in to take a spin down the 101?
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/05/sergey-brin-finally-l...
Forward to 1:05 when Sergey is holding it in his hand, you can see it whole. It's pretty small.
Edit: when I saw the title I thought it would be about this:
https://plus.google.com/113217924531763968801/posts/9GjXoifY...
Really though, if Apple brought these out would you expect them to work with Android? :-)
Apple may respond not by blocking a fantastic bit of kit (which would infuriate customers) but by buying a company that has its own patents on similar technology and building on the play they made in buying C3 from Saab. I'm hoping the latter.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Fraunhover-Wants-to-Beat-Goog...
Apple is a hardware company focused on seamless user experience, and highly skilled in nurturing a commercial developer base. They can think mapps.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/253987/move_over_google_oakle...
One scene was how they continually used "microchips" to shrink the size of the headset.
http://i.imgur.com/iOlcx.png
We have a looot of radio waves around us all the time
Anyway, no matter what they look like I will be there on day one. I don't normally subscribe immediately to new tech like this. Took me a year or two to get a smartphone and I still don't have a tablet, but Glass is different.
One more thing - I really, really hope that people will find a way to load new OSes onto Glass. The technology is fantastic but it won't reach its full potential if it's locked away.
I also assume apps would take care of the vast majority of customization and extra functionality most users need.
http://www.importrpm.com/self-driving-lexus-rxh/
I think most of the test fleet is still Toyotas. But if you're Sergey Brin and you show up with the President of Turkey then they let you borrow the Lexus.