Google Glass

“Google glass. Turns out we were too, too early there, but increasingly it's looking like we were very right. The whole world has come back around to that. But when we made it, we were trying to figure out, we have a sense that people want to get away from thei…”

“What happens is the early adopters, the people that, you know, we all hang out with and talk to all day, they're going to try everything. We're going to try these crazy goggles, and we're going to put, you know, magnets on our head, and we're going to do the c…”

“Meta Ray-Bans and Google Glass are the same thing, feature-wise. The gestures on the side, the fact that it could take a photo, I mean, Google Glass was a little more advanced, it could run these, like, very basic text-based apps, but I'm sure when Meta launch…”

“My software development company, Beam, my startup we started that company in 2014, and a little known aspect of that company is, initially, it was built around Google Glass. And we actually, you know, we rewrote the code, we rewrote the software that Google Gl…”

“My software development company, Beam, my startup we started that company in 2014, and a little known aspect of that company is, initially, it was built around Google Glass.”

“There's also just I just didn't know anything about consumer electronics supply chains really, and how hard it would be to build that, and have it be at a reasonable price point managing all the manufacturing and so forth.”

“There are a bunch of things I wish I had done differently, but honestly, it was just like the technology wasn't ready for Google Glass.”

“These are all utterly brilliant things, but it took in the case of the Japanese toilet and the wine box and Google glass, Something about the timing or the marketing, not the product, something was wrong, and the consumer basically never bit. It never reached …”

“Google Glass, I mean, it was kind of marketing cock up. They launched a bit too soon. Then they only gave the bloody glasses to developers. Now, with the best will of the world, developers probably aren't the world's like coolest people. Okay. They're not the …”

“Google's notorious for building products that are technology in search of problems. Google Wave, Google Buzz, Google Glass, like, all of these products were basically some smart engineer or technologist starting the sentence with, Wouldn't it be cool if, dot, …”

“At Google, you know, they value sophistication of the technology more than they value solving a customer problem. And so that was a cultural thing that started from the early days that served us well, served Google well for certain products like search and pro…”

“I actually wrote a, an algorithm to do that on Google glass. It was not very good, but it could identify cards and could suggest strategies.”

“I was way over indexing on the iPhone and the iPad, which were the two most recent ones and what turned out to be two of the most exceptional ones. And not appreciating how difficult it is to do new form factors and not looking at the Newton and a bunch of oth…”

“The problem with that is you can't block out the world entirely. You can't use that to put yourself into a completely immersive experience. There's also part of lots, much harder physics problems in doing that. Can you get the right field of view? Can you get …”

“The killer app of this is I just look at somebody and it tells me who they are. Like, I can just like, you know, like when you stalk someone, you meet, you see someone interesting, you like try to look them up, you find their Instagram, you see what their life…”

“I think Google Glasses failed not because of Privacy issues, but because the technology sucked and it made you look weird.”

“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.”

“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 …”

“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…”

“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 …”

“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…”

“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.”

“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…”

“So whether that's cryptocurrency, or Google Glass, or whatever the hot category is of that year, of that couple of years, I think it's not good advice to quote-unquote have a play in X category. Because if you are able to pick the best, that may be the company…”

“Doomed.”

“Yeah, but I think the developer community is you know, strong, and I think it's a really viable platform but these things take time, that, you know, it's not an overnight thing.”