Ready for Prescripton Google Glass?

[Steve Machol]

Google recently teamed up with three eye-care providers — including two in Southern California — to sell its Glass wearable device directly to the public. What do you think?

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...517-story.html

[drk]

http://betabeat.com/2014/05/googles-...an-cause-pain/

[AngeHamm]

Wow are these things unattractive.

[chaoticneutral]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/wh...oogles-glasses At the bottom there is a google glass graphic you can copy and past onto your own image. Then you can see how adorkable you look in google glass

[Steve Machol]

Wow are these things unattractive.

Well, there's at least one man who bravely disagrees: We've Found The One Man Who Thinks Google Glass' Look Can Work To His Advantage

[AngeHamm]

Well, there's at least one man who bravely disagrees: We've Found The One Man Who Thinks Google Glass' Look Can Work To His Advantage

More power to him, but he sounds like a wackjob.

[drk]

Let's face it...we want Google Glass to fail.

They've jumped the shark on this one. It's a bridge too far.

I mean, I could put up with those google-mobiles photographing all over town, basically because that street view stuff is so useful.

But Glass just so you can be an introverted, peeping-Tom, pseudo-sophisticate robot? No, that's too much.

A raise of Fezz's beer stein to the coiner of the phrase "Glassh_ _ e!

[AngeHamm]

I don't know that I'd go so far as to say I want it to fail. It's just such a niche product, like the Segway, that I simply can't conceive that it will succeed in a big way.

[chaoticneutral]

I don't know that I'd go so far as to say I want it to fail. It's just such a niche product, like the Segway, that I simply can't conceive that it will succeed in a big way.

Your absolutely right, it's a niche product. They just hired a new designer to give it a makeover. Even if it looks nicer or is designed better, I don't think we will ever need TV's pasted to our faces. It's just not that important.
We will have this soon enough

[Uncle Fester]

Reminds me of another big time failure---

[Andrew Weiss]

Six Forks Optical nearby in Raleigh is now a distributor for Google Glasses. They look like geek chic to me. We'll see how they do. $1,500 for the frame, plus lenses.

[mdeimler]

"With a cellphone camera it's pretty obvious if someone is holding up their camera and recording you," said Jeremy Gillula, a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a consumer digital rights group. "If something like Google Glass becomes popular, it's impossible to tell if someone is recording."

ummm....not really, these things stick out like a sore thumb

[drk]

Yeah! Let's put them in contact lenses so nobody will know.

Just think, it will be bigger than Twitter...you can subscribe to someone's entire life experience.

Just think of living through the eyes of Steve Machol...awesomeness!

[AngeHamm]

Yeah! Let's put them in contact lenses so nobody will know.

Just think, it will be bigger than Twitter...you can subscribe to someone's entire life experience.

Just think of living through the eyes of Steve Machol...awesomeness!

Living the dream. Living the dream.

[SeaU2020]

http://betabeat.com/2014/05/googles-...an-cause-pain/

after reading this article I don't think it would be something I could wear without eyestrain. Looking up like that for 10 seconds is uncomfortable, makes my forehead wrinkle, and I can't even see in that area with my presbyopia with a standard progressive.

[rinselberg]

BBC News/Technology
A "Brit" reviews Google Glass from a user's perspective

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27585766

[rmarkey]

I have been wearing Google glasses now for several months. The truth is unless someone knows you and has a reason to record you they will not be wasting their precious battery life or memory on the device. It is very useful for continuing conversations without interruption of a phone. You can ignore calls but know if it is someone that may be an emergency. You can drive and get directions. People ask if that is a distraction. It is less of distraction when you compare it to looking away from the road and down to a GPS screen. The camera function that everyone seems to think is an invasion of property is really not the useful part of the device. There are too many other functions that improve someone's productivity that many of the pictures you would like to take you miss. In that way it is the same as a cell phone.

[fjpod]

meanwhile....when they first came out several months ago, we had 4 or 5 people come in for Rx lenses. Seems to have dropped off now.

[rmarkey]

Google Glass was the first of many that will be coming on to the scene. Being prepared for this is going to be important. If we as eye care professionals do not have an answer that actually provides a solution for the patients that need eyewear, we will be working that much harder to be the professionals that are out in front of this.

[EyeManDan]

I tried them got really nauseous and car sick feeling.

However, like RMARKEY said we must be prepared.... and may I add, make money off of them.