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mk  ·  4032 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who else here is legitimately excited about Google Glass?

For me, not so much. Although it seems like something that I expected to encounter in the future, I can't really find a use case for myself.

I'm curious, what potential functionality most excites you?





thenewgreen  ·  4031 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Stargazing.

mk  ·  4031 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I could see that. It would be cool to have information on any celestial body that you were looking at.

thenewgreen  ·  4031 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Also, imagine walking around Boston or New York and having historic sites described to you audibly while an overlay of the way it used to look was displayed.

gordonz88  ·  4030 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Definitely the bikes GPS/Odometer! People pay hundreds for dedicated bike GPSs (see, Garmin Edge series). Since I'm no racer, I could never bring myself to buy anything like that. I just use Strava on my phone. Sure, a smartphone with GPS would work fine, but this bring's the best of a dedicated GPS all over! You can see a small 'mini-map' anytime you want. You can see anything the Garmin would show you. I only hope this gets optimized real well!

Gosh I love bikes.

aperson  ·  4032 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Aside from what has been demoed, the api looks super easy to work with. It looks mostly to be just pushing json to google. I can create notifications that get pushed out of the way in my vision.

I guess my main excitement is that it's a friggin screen in your face at all times.

mk  ·  4032 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I can see that some will devise some very interesting apps. I think a real world RPG interface would be fun.