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I just got my pair yesterday and I went to SH/SC to see the Glass thread. It's closed with a modnote saying: Put it in IYG. So here we go! Unless you've been living under a rock, you already know what this is. It's 1500 dollar pair of glasses with no lenses that super impose a F-16 like HUD in your right eyeball.  How do I get one Go here : http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-to-get-one/ Fill out the application. Wait for approval. Throw down  *150. Yeah that's right. These things are 1500 dollars. How awesome is it! Is it like the video?! Meh. These are early prototypes and the video is a little overselling of the capabilities. It's not really like a total "immersion" as much as it is a tiny TV projected in your upper right field of vision. Text is kind of difficult to read, it doesn't "know" everything you want to do like the video, Has a slight learning curve, you can't enter webforms, etc. I'm on the fence, not a developer, and not wealthy...I'm not sure .. Don't get it DEVELOPMENT: There's two ways to develop glassware. 1)Mirror API OR 2)Glass Dev Kit. OR 3)Both AT THE SAME drat TIME I don't know poo poo about mirror API but I did make a sample application in a few hours after looking at the glass development page. I can say "OK glass, who is the fairest of them all" and a card shows up with my wife's photo and text explaining that she is always the fairest of them all. She smirked and said "that's neat". If you know a little about Android development than making GDK glassware isn't too hard. I'm going to experiment with it some more and see what I come up with. Post your experiences I guess.
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I literally got mine monday so I'm not sure what V2 is! Mine had frame colors options is that V2?. The software is XE12 I think? Edit: Google search [though not on glass] shows I have V2. TheReverend fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Jan 29, 2014 |
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Jan 29, 2014 07:47
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Trip report: Since I live in the South and we don't respond well to snow, I've been snowed in for the past few days. And since it's cold, I haven't had a good reason to go outside. Today I got cabin fever and decided to grocery shopping. Things I learned: -It's actually kind of hard to see outside. -The navigation thing is pretty neat, but I prefer to use my phone and pump the audio through my car BT connection. -The lady at the checkout will think you're from the future and ask to try them. You will spend 15 minutes explaining them to the checkout lady. Also GiantMetalRobot , I too am on a Galaxy Nexus and yeah it's great it kills my battery it no time. I have a backup battery coming to last me till ~April when I will upgrade my phone.
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Jan 29, 2014 23:30
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I wear em on head on the way to work. Normally this isn't a big deal but I forget sometimes and get a drink at a gas station or grocery or something I spend an hour explaining it to people. If anything it makes me MORE social because people say "what the hell is that?".
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Feb 5, 2014 03:25
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Three Olives posted:One thing that has kind of confused me is I find it hard to believe that the manufacturing cost is anywhere near $1500, it's probably closer to a few hundred at most, I mean this isn't cutting edge hardware, application yes but it's pretty much a low end phone hardware wise. Of course there is the R&D budget but that seems more like a sunk cost that they really can't recoup nor should really expect to on this limited rollout... Well you have to understand that there aren't that many of these and it's not like HTC or Samsung is rolling these out of an Asian factory 24/7. So because they aren't buying "in bulk" they probably cost a whole lot more than they could should they be massed produced. On a more speculative note: -They probably want to keep these relatively rare for a while. Complete strangers come up to me to ask about them. And since I was one of those people who really wanted one and -They also probably want to keep these in the hands of people who are going to take the time to really use these things. A few friends/family of mine couldn't deal with the learning curve and thought it was stupid. If it was easily affordable you'd get a lot of tech support problems, etc. ExcessBLarg! posted:Folks with v1 units did get a free upgrade to v2. TheReverend fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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Feb 5, 2014 05:57
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Yeah don't pay for this. Work should pay for it otherwise you ain't missin' much
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Mar 2, 2014 00:17
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I'm on vacation but I'll do it in a few days when I return.
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