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Evans: Google Glass was an experimental product test that failed
“Google's been incredibly quiet on glass for years. And, you know, the thing is really, you know, it's gone nowhere. You know, just, you know, we don't know. Maybe there'll be something will happen. Maybe it won't. But it feels like it was out there. It was a t…”
Chokshi: Google Glass will find its primary success in enterprise applications
“Although I think people would argue that, and this is not, we haven't talked about this in great detail, we don't have time to, that Google Glass would probably find its promise in the enterprise, because I know when we were working on that sort of thing back …”
Hoover: Snapchat has unique opportunity in AR where Google Glass failed
“What's so fascinating about Snapchat is they have such a unique opportunity to actually pull this off, whereas Google Glass was super dorky and nerdy and obviously not built for like a younger audience.”
Thierer: Immersive technology will face major backlash over psychological distraction
“Of course, Google Glass has subsided as a technology now, but that technology is still with us in other ways, and we're going to witness, I think, a lot of concern about the issues raised by a world of immersive technologies, including sort of psychological co…”
Evans: Apple Watch avoids Google Glass's intrusive social interface issues
“Again, Google Glass didn't do anything that you couldn't do with a smartphone but, you know, it kind of tried to do it in a different way. And so does the watch but without all the kind of the glass hole problems of the sort of imposing the screen between you …”
Benedict Evans: Smartwatches offer a better ambient screen form factor than smartglasses
“I think there's a kind of a longer-term story here around watches, which seemed like a better way of having that ambient screen, maybe, than something that's kind of clamped onto your face.”
Benedict Evans: Google Glass is too limited and intrusive for consumer adoption
“I mean, in the short-term, it feels like Google Glass is probably too limited in its capability, and it's probably too intrusive in the form factor for anything other than an enterprise application, and I've seen a lot of really cool Google Glass enterprise ap…”