Google Glasses and Competitors

As Google gets closer to its release date at the end of the year for its Google glasses, it seems as though the market for this high-tech glasses is emerging even before its debuted release. These tiny computers will be in the front of its holder’s eyes; and it can do a range of things from displaying texts, emails, newsfeed, access search engines, take pictures or videos, and more. People are so excited for the coming to Google glasses that a limited number were allowed to pay in order to experience the trial in order to be entered into the raffle that will give them privilege to order the glasses when it first enters the market at $1500.

With the promise to be an amazing hit among consumer, other companies are joining in and competing with Goggle for these wearable computers that will revolutionize the way people carry information, and even manage health and diet. For example, Recon instruments have created their very own durable glasses, the Jet, designed to assist athletic individuals: it displays physical data, heart rate and race pathway directions; it will have Wi-Fi, GPS when it’s released next February at price of $599. Meta SpaceGlasses has two projectors rather than the usual one projector, which allows for 3-D images and a virtual keyboard. As bulky frames, these frames were still able to sell $800,000 worth of them and the company plans to release slimmer version next April for $667.

There are mixed opinions regarding the release of these new technology. Some are eager to have an engine for data right front of their eyes at any time of the day. A person can have instruction guide open to them as they are fix things like computers. Others are skeptical of the social cost these frames may have on society. During parties or social gathering, people may be more interested in their surfing their Glasses rather than conversations. Nonetheless, these glasses will soon enter the market for mass-consumer, and developers are already writing applications for them.

We may see these wearable computers’ market takeoff faster than the tablet market experienced just a few years ago as these wearable computers become the new social convention.

 

***Eisenberg, Anne. Seeking a Staredown With Google Glass. New York Times. The New York Times Company.10/12/2013.Web.10.13.2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/business/seeking-a-staredown-with-google-glass.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print

-Taruna Manni