Google Glass
1 creator use or recommend it
Google's early smart glasses prototype that displayed information in the user's field of view
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How Google Glass compares
2 creators weighed in
Meta Ray-Ban
Direct rival
Meta's smart glasses
Glass was too expensive and awkward to wear. Marc and Ben see Meta Ray-Ban as the more successful follow-up.
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Glass was too expensive and awkward to wear. Marc and Ben see Meta Ray-Ban as the more successful follow-up.
"I remember Google Glass. I was at Google when we did Google Glass and I was like, 'Guys, like who's ever going to put this thing on their face?' People pay $1,000 or more to get lasers shown in their eyes and risk blindness with LASIK so..."
Compared to Snap Spectacles as a prior failed AR glasses attempt; contrasted with Meta Ray-Bans as a more successful approach
"If you remember Google Glass way back when that kind of had that but it was too expensive it didn't quite work right"
Failed predecessor to Meta Ray-Ban glasses - too expensive and didn't work well
What creators say
"I wore Google Glass for many years and of course there's a lot of baggage that comes with that, but there are lots of wearable computers that have tried these sorts of things over the years."
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"You remember Google Glass? I remember when it was first unveiled. It was a pretty crazy and unheard of thing at the time. Like nobody was really ready for a computer on your face. It was just way too early to be announced as a product. The tech wa..."
More from Marques Brownlee →"Do you remember Google Glass? They were supposed to record everything that you saw through the day. They weren't successful when they came out because most people realize that actually most of the things that are happening during the day are boring."
More from Masud Husain →"Arguably the Google Glass from 10 years ago, I feel was on the right track. What's the lightest wearable everyday option?"
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"Silicon Valley has been trying to make smart glasses happen for more than a decade. Remember Google Glass?"
More from John Coogan →"we learned of course with Google Glass how important that is as well"
More from Caitlin Kalinowski →"I think that's why people should reconsider these as a product category because I've had them since Google Glass. The battery never worked. They were too bulky. You look like a dork in them."
"I remember Google Glass. I was at Google when we did Google Glass and I was like, 'Guys, like who's ever going to put this thing on their face?' People pay $1,000 or more to get lasers shown in their eyes and risk blindness with LASIK so they don'..."
"If you remember Google Glass way back when that kind of had that but it was too expensive it didn't quite work right"
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