Came across this review on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fxtl9VChZhM
Monochrome (green) head mounted display that looks like a regular pair of glasses. Mainly useful as a HUD. Has a microphone but no speakers. Seems to have basic head tracking. Marketing claims a day and a half of battery life with light use.
Main Features:
- Teleprompter
- Live Translation
- Speech-to-Text 30-Second Notes
- Phone Notifications
- AI Assistant (an LLM)
- GPS navigation
- Time/Date/Weather
Screenshots
The G1 Smart Glasses:
Live Translation (in this case French to English):
Time/Date/Weather/Notifications:
Turn by Turn Navigation:
GPS Map:
What do you folks think?
Just looked it up and these cost $600. +$100 for sun clips. +$150 for prescription lenses.
At that price point, these likely won’t gain mainstream adoption.
The interface is clearly inspired by VATS.
Google is probably the last company I am willing to let put a camera on my face.
I think wearable tech is pretty cool and having a hud in your glasses is awesome. But these features don’t interest me. I am struggling to think of what features I would want/need from glasses which doesn’t help.
I think the meta ray-band glasses look pretty cool because of the video recording but are ruined by the Facebook integration and price.
I personally think these features are useful, though I find the design of the gps navigation to be heavy handed. But the price is way too high for what you get.
Oh, I just saw a video on YouTube about these, neat!
Glasses like these with an inconspicuous form factor and simple yet useful features could do for smart glasses what the Pebble watch did for smartwatches.
If they added speakers to let people hear music or make phone calls via the glasses, it’d be an even more compelling device, especially with an intuitive UI.
If they added speakers to let people hear music or make phone calls via the glasses, it’d be an even more compelling device, especially with an intuitive UI.
Might a decent built-in mic that doesn’t override/compete with some wireless earbuds/headphones possibly be a better combo? Would keep battery drain and weight on the glasses down.
Sure, assuming the glasses’ UI would let you control audio being piped to the earbuds. But I think Google Glass had bone conducting speakers that weren’t heavy or power hungry. Maybe there’s a good reason they left speakers off the G1 that I’m not considering.
There are those Bose glasses headphones which, iirc, were pretty bulky, and also they leaked the sound so everyone nearby would hear. Maybe bone conducting would work but I think you need a bit of pressure for those to work well which would (probably) be uncomfortable after a while.
