GOOGLE GLASSES: THE NEXT BIG THING AFTER AN IPHONE??
Project Glass is
a research and development program by Google to develop an augmented reality head-mounted display (HMD) named Google glass. Project Glass products display information
in a smartphone -like format hands-free, and can interact with the Internet via natural language voice commands. The eye wear has minimalist appearance and uses Google's Android
operating system.
As a concept its a no brainer…ton of people
wear glasses..imagine if those glasses had the ability to tell you the weather
..maybe like a tiny weather widget …imagine if it could take photos/videos or
have the ability to live broadcast what your seeing to your friends/audience
aka FaceTime with the back camera. Is it the future of journalism ? recording scientific experiments ?
photography ? voice communication? Yes please!
Making
this concept work in real life..now that’s the difficult part.
The
thought of doing these things instantly by just your voice without bothering to
remove your cellphone sounds magical...almost too magical.
Will
people walk around talking to these “glasses” risking looking weird adding to
that the risk of the glasses not being able to understand what they said
because of background noises or it just dint get you.
The
future of Google glasses hinges on voice recognition, which isn't just good
enough yet. How many people actually walk around in public talking to Google
now? ..thought so. It’s just not technology but just the social discomfort of
talking to your tech in public..it’s either too noisy or feels weird .. All this talk about Google glasses needing to look
good is blown out of proportion..atleast from the press images they look
decent….Google needs to give a compelling reason for people to use it…make a
product which works solidly and is truly awesome in doing some things
perfectly…master few tasks rather than being ok at multiple things…
Till then i'll be looking disapprovingly at my boring normal
glasses.
-SUSHMITA BHANDARI
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