jeffythequick

Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 update is faster with better camera & USB-C

May 2019

gatorguy said:

jeffythequick said:

chasm said:

While I am trying to applaud continued research in wearables and enterprise tools, the fundamental problems with Google Glass remain:
1. Big and presumably weighty battery in the back on one side -- not balanced.
2. Aesthetically unbalanced as well.
3. Google camera recording you at all times.

I'm pretty sure that doctor does not start his exams by saying "by the way, these glasses have a video camera in them that is recording you and sending that information to Google," so … I can only speak for myself, but Google's privacy policies (or lack thereof) and medical exams are a gigantic nope for me, and in general I will need to be asked to opt-in and give explicit permission (which will never happen) before looking at or speaking to anyone wearing Google Glasses.

Exactly... Most companies I know and have worked at don't really want everything that they own being sent to the mother ship, and that's a huge NFW for corporations that value their data and their intellectual property.

When I had a business and installed servers, and was talking about backup plans (they had RAID 1 and 5 arrays in them), they said, "I'm not worried, the failure systems you have are good enough!" to which I said, "OK, what if someone breaks in and steals your server? Do you want all of that data gone? Your insurance will cover the hardware, but how valuable is your data?"

No one, from Intel to IBM to anybody that works with Defense will let these things on their property while they call home as part of their firmware. Google makes Huawei look like pikers in this regard.

Of course companies don't want everything they own turned over to some other company for their own uses. You're introducing a false dilemma since Google Glass Enterprise doesn't do that, obviously. Proof? They're used in medical offices and hospitals. Did you watch the video the AI article linked?

The rest of your post is simply constructed from assumption, other than your reference to a conversation you had at a data center once.

Agreed, my argument is a bit specious, but there are real reasons why I said what I said.

Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 update is faster with better camera & USB-C

jeffythequick

May 2019

chasm said:

While I am trying to applaud continued research in wearables and enterprise tools, the fundamental problems with Google Glass remain:
1. Big and presumably weighty battery in the back on one side -- not balanced.
2. Aesthetically unbalanced as well.
3. Google camera recording you at all times.

I'm pretty sure that doctor does not start his exams by saying "by the way, these glasses have a video camera in them that is recording you and sending that information to Google," so … I can only speak for myself, but Google's privacy policies (or lack thereof) and medical exams are a gigantic nope for me, and in general I will need to be asked to opt-in and give explicit permission (which will never happen) before looking at or speaking to anyone wearing Google Glasses.

Exactly... Most companies I know and have worked at don't really want everything that they own being sent to the mother ship, and that's a huge NFW for corporations that value their data and their intellectual property.

When I had a business and installed servers, and was talking about backup plans (they had RAID 1 and 5 arrays in them), they said, "I'm not worried, the failure systems you have are good enough!" to which I said, "OK, what if someone breaks in and steals your server? Do you want all of that data gone? Your insurance will cover the hardware, but how valuable is your data?"

No one, from Intel to IBM to anybody that works with Defense will let these things on their property while they call home as part of their firmware. Google makes Huawei look like pikers in this regard.

Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 update is faster with better camera & USB-C

jeffythequick

May 2019

Eric_WVGG said:

I know a guy who's working on a vertical/indoor farming startup. He's built a platform where the plants all have QR codes under them; workers can walk around the aisles and see at a glance which plants require water, have a fungus, are ready for harvest, etc.

Warehouse workers being given directions or orders amidst hundreds of thousands of crates. I once had a job working at UPS, loading boxes into trucks for cross-country transit. I had to check the zip codes of 60-100 boxes per minute to make sure I wasn't sending a California box to Texas. I could never keep the lists of zips correct, eventually washed out. Google Glasses would have been a godsend.

There was good story about their use in surgery and medical settings.

Google Glass is a great product. It's just not a great consumer product.

Yet...

The Internet wasn't a consumer product either, and spent the first 25 years of its life as a tool for companies (big ones, like IBM), schools, and the military. Once the bugs were worked out, the platform was refined, in the last 20 years (using 1998 as the breakout year for the Internet) has seen the improvements that we have now.

I see enterprise making this a better platform, and eventually they'll be consumer editions worthy of consumers' money, just like cell phones, trucks, computers...