Do I get a job a Sun headline writer?
The Google project which was called Glass was predicted by many to be the future of the internet, with the web projected in front you of via some techno goggles.
The concept was pretty good, look at an object and you can get more information, albeit text, web links, video, even augmented reality. Plus the ability to video on the fly.
But feedback from users was that the eyeware was buggy, problems with blue tooth and a major consideration, fashion! People just looked odd.
Then there was continual controversy of privacy issues as you walked around with the ability to film everyone and every thing, albeit with a terminator style blinking red light.
So the Glass adventure has ended for now, you can no longer buy the $1500 glasses which must have stung a few people who shelled out, but this was always a high risk new technology venture.
The official Google Glass page is now just a static splash screen:
But it did what Google does best, which is push boundaries and technology. No doubt lots of lessons learned will be incorporated into future projects, and the expected growth in popularity of wearable technology, starting with phones may make this more viable and mainstream in the future.
There were some very impressive imagery generated by peoples headsets, no doubt this will be absorbed in to Googles map products.
Did anyone have a dabble with Glass? Did you think it was a good or bad idea?
