Google Glass

[nterror]

Personally, I think this flax looks amazing, and I've dreamed of having something like it since I was a little tater tot watching Ned's Declassified on Nickelodeon.

However, I'm not 18 and don't have $1500 to burn, so I won't be applying for one. My hope is that once it's fully released, the price will be more around $1000.

Thoughts?

 

[Joeyjoe9876]

heh, if the deadline was a month or two later I'd be all about trying to get one. looks pretty awesome.

 

[Prog]

Personally, I think this flax looks amazing, and I've dreamed of having something like it since I was a little tater tot watching Ned's Declassified on Nickelodeon.

Ned, *Can'tSayThisOnTV* yeah!
I hope the voice commands work, because we all know that they can be finicky.
This should help for recording gameplay of handheld devices.

 

[Abyss]

I hope the voice commands work, because we all know that they can be finicky.

If the voice commands are anything like Jelly Bean's voice commands, it should be pretty Dang good.

 

[samjc3]

I cannot be the only one who finds this to be utterly pointless and doesn't for a second believe it would work half or even a quarter as well as depicted, right?

Maybe I'm just a bitter clinger - I still think tablets are fully retarded too - but this strikes me as more technology that is trying to be different for the sheer sake of being different without offering any feature a normal device couldn't do better.

 

[ttsgeb]

It falls into the "Maybe $50 neat" category for me, so I'm pretty much with Sam on this one. It has nothing to do with the guns, and flamethrowers this time, though.

I mean, I'm not too Dang lazy to reach into my pocket and look at my phone, and if I'm doing something that requires both hands, I'll either not be using my phone, or have it mounted nearby.

If this actually provided a fun sense of AR, it'd be different, but I don't need a HUD that provides no useful information past the time and costs as much as a car.

 

[ShockSlayer]

A HUD would be cool, but I don't know how I'd gauge health and it'd probably be a PITA to hook this thing up to a gun to display ammo. That said, it'd better have GPS to display my location on a map, and Detective mode.

SS

 

[Ashen]

At least this looks neater than the PS4. It'll prolly cost less @ retail too.

 

[Antome]

I cannot be the only one who finds this to be utterly pointless and doesn't for a second believe it would work half or even a quarter as well as depicted, right?

Maybe I'm just a bitter clinger - I still think tablets are fully retarded too - but this strikes me as more technology that is trying to be different for the sheer sake of being different without offering any feature a normal device couldn't do better.

I agree, the voice control sounds awkward and the only other control is the touch pad on the side of the glasses, which is again awkward.

This will also probably cost a lot while functioning little.

At least this looks neater than the PS4. It'll prolly cost less @ retail too.

the PS4 doesn't look neat because we haven't seen the PS4 :>
The specs seem entirely reasonable though.
And they will definitely not make the same mistake as last gen with pricing, it'll be less than $600, and with the current pricing I doubt glass will go under $800. I imagine Google wants this to be their iphone, that they can turn a decent profit from.

 

[Ashen]

The PS4 doesn't look neat because its essentially a highish end PC with a proprietary a Sony OS, which they will sell at a mild price. Sorry, I'll just game on, uh, a PC?

Devs will love it though, since porting between PC, XBOX and PS4 essentially requires no effort now.

 

[Zero]

It's hardly even a high end PC. It'll likely still feel overpriced even in the $400 range, especially considering you'd be locked into their ecosystem, and it doesn't help they couldn't even be bothered to include a Cell CPU for backwards compatibility with PS3 games. Switching to X86 has both strengths and flaws, but Sony is starting off the switch on the wrong foot imo.

If rumors turn out to be true though and MS switches to x86 as well, Nintendo will have a tough time convincing devs to port things to Wii U. On the one hand, they probably have the superior architecture for optimizing games from the ground up, but it means nothing if they don't get third party support. Also, although the 2gb ram limit doesn't seem like an issue at the moment with the Wii U, it can become the system's bottleneck in the future. I have no idea why they didn't spring for 4gb with how cheap ram is.

Doesn't really affect me though. I'm likely just sticking with PC for now and will probably pick up one of the new consoles later for the exclusives.

 

[Mako321]

This is how fast the CPU will theoretically perform.
Theoretically though, the video card will, from what I hear, run around the speed of a 7870.
Still, that CPU would probably bottleneck pretty hard and so would the GDDR5 memory(Significantly higher latency than DDR3)

 

[samjc3]

403 image error

Yeah.

 

[Prog]

That's weird, sometimes the pic works, sometimes it doesn't.
If it doesn't, here:

 

[Antome]

The PS4 doesn't look neat because its essentially a highish end PC with a proprietary a Sony OS, which they will sell at a mild price. Sorry, I'll just game on, uh, a PC?

So other consoles such as the ps3 and wii are better because they use non-standard hardware?

Sony will subsidize the ps4. The hardware will best a PC price-wise at launch, if only for 6 months, and they will cut the price when the hardware gets cheaper until they finally sell at a slight profit. At this point games will be well optimized for the hardware, and being standard hardware the devs will be able to backport to the PC which would be awesome.

Video capture/game streaming is built in, which has wide reaching benefits. The touchpad and motion control future-proofs Sony for any resurfacing trends, and could allow for some seriously interesting third-party peripherals (someones gonna make a mouse/touchpad controller I imagine). Games download in a structured format so that you can begin playing the game while it is still downloading content.

The PS4 has few gimmicks, and that isn't a bad thing. Sometimes the best play is the safe play. I'm still going to use my PC, but the PS4 so far sounds like the winning mixture for this gen, with easy development and their heightened interest in indie development, along with entirely reasonable hardware without any compromises.

Google glass seems great in concept, but the voice control is just seriously awkward. Imagine trying to do things on a day-to day basis with glass. I only use GPS, and take pictures/video on the rare occasion, in which case I have my cellphone. There's no way I'm going to "talk" my texts/actions out loud, so there goes voice recognition. Who uses things like SIRI while talking to their friends besides to show it off?

The "its there when you need it" argument doesn't fare well with me because I don't wear glasses, not even sunglasses. They are uncomfortable and you always know they're there, and this is my opinion. I could imagine people with prescription glasses using Google glass, but then they would have to fit the device onto their glasses, so hopefully Google creates a clip-on format.

One thing that would sway me would be eye/mind input. Mind input is a long way away, so If I can navigate this without awkwardly reaching up to my ear or speaking out loud "okay glass, _____", for example eye gestures and double-blink input with a non-intrusive icon in the corner of my vision to access a minimalistic action menu, I would give it a try no doubt.

 

[nterror]

I agree, I think that the voice control will easily be messed up when other noises are being sounded around you (read: all the time). However, for people with prescription glasses, I think it's neat to have, especially if they make a clip-on version.

EDIT:
Looking at pictures, it seems looks like the Glass doesn't have lenses, which I didn't know before.

Cosmetically, it looks dumb without them.

 

[Zero]

Who uses things like SIRI while talking to their friends besides to show it off?

Does borrowing my friends' iPhones to leave funny reminders, annoying alarms, and changing their name with Siri count?