Current Events > Whatever happened to Google Glasses?

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Did it eventually die because it was banned everywhere?
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Died because it was way too expensive for something you wear on your face and people were concerned about privacy.
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Unrelated but remember that overlay that was kindof a meme on CE where we could write and paint naughty things.
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Vyrulisse posted...

Unrelated but remember that overlay that was kindof a meme on CE where we could write and paint naughty things.

Yeah.

Check out the one for the Ask the Mods board if it's still around.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/style/why-google-glass-broke.html

Tech reviewers who finally got their hands on Glass described it as the worst product of all time, aptly noting that it had abysmal battery life, and that it was a product plagued by bugs. Privacy concerns were raised, with people afraid of being recorded during private moments, like at the urinal, as I experienced at another Google conference where I was surrounded by Glass wearers. It was also banned from bars, movie theaters, Las Vegas casinos and other places that did not want customers surreptitiously recording.

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tech isnt there yet but it was a good experiment
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https://plus.google.com/+GoogleGlass/posts/9uiwXY42tvc
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Wasn't there also a story about someone who had them and ended up needing therapy because of them? Like he developed a crippling addiction to the internet because he had gotten so used to having it literally right there in front of him at all times, and being without it was causing him problems.

Maybe it was a hoax, iunno. If it's true then that should be enough a reason to avoid them,
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It was bitched into oblivion.
:(
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Tech wasn't good enough yet. I guarantee if the tech was sound privacy concerns would go out the window just like many privacy concerns have recently gone away with the general public.
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