Glass is moving from the Google X research lab to be a stand-alone unit led by Ivy Ross. Ms. Ross and her team will report to Tony Fadell, a former Apple executive who heads Nest Labs, the smart-home device company Google acquired for $3.2 billion in February 2014. Mr. Fadell will still run Nest, but he also will oversee Glass and provide strategic guidance to Ms. Ross.
Tony made the iPod and founded Nest after leaving Apple. I have a ton of respect for this man.
Let’s follow Google’s line of reasoning here:
1. We want to know everything about everyone’s lives.
2. We want to show ads to people 24/7.
3. But everyone hates it when people wear Glass in public. 🙁
4. Aha! We should get people to wear Glass at HOME!!!
5. And yes, we already have devices in the home: Nest!!!
6. Hey Tony: can you get people to wear Glass at home!?!?
Look for Google to hype Glass-at-home or some other creepy privacy-invading initiative involving Glass. Their biggest challenge: changing #Glasshole to #Glasshome. Good luck with that.
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Not a lot’s come from Fadell since the CO monitor. I’m sure they’ve got stuff in the works, but still…
Um, Nest actually uses a 3rd party design firm for their products. So the sleek Apple-esque design of their products isn’t in house,
I’m not convinced that Google’s plan for Glass is to show ads on it. At least, not at first. Instead, I think its intended use is to gather as much information as possible about you to better serve ads in their other services.
With image recognition getting better and better, it’s only a matter of time before Glass can analyze your environment to learn what you like and use that to better target you with ads in Gmail and Google search results. Sure, they’d probably prefer to put ads on Glass itself, but it will take time for them to figure out how to make them the least annoying as possible and yet still effective.
thing is, i dont see myself ever walking around w/ something like GG on my face all day. so i dont know what data it could realistically gather, even in the home. my choice of sofa pillows?
No, and most people won’t walk around with it on their face all day. But those that do will be a treasure trove of data for Google. And, they can use other information they have about those people to better speculate about the rest of us.