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Originally Posted by Tittytweaker
I think everyone will probably be in the same boat as you once it sees a wide release. The advertisements do a good job of distracting you from the fact that it's just a little rectangle in your field of vision, and not some futuristic HUD.
I'd be interested to see what could be done if it were paired up with a "smart watch" or something. The novelty of GPS/Weather/Gmail will wear off pretty fast.
How does the application process work. Did you have to pay full price or did they give you some kind of discount in exchange for usage data or something?
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Some of the apps that they're saying should be released soon that sound pretty cool is one that translates foreign text in real time. So for example if you were looking at a street sign in Japan it could translate the Japanese to English. Another one that is being used by some physicians uses facial recognition to display data about a person. A "normal" use would be if you meet someone, you can take their picture, add notes about them, and next time you see them Glass would recognize them and display data about them. For example "Steve, married to Nancy, went to college at Yale, owns a car dealership" or something like that. So you could essentially always know a person if you've met them at least once before.
The apps are sideloaded either through the MyGlass app (iPhone) or from an online portal that is tied to your Google account. I didn't get any discount or data subsidy and it wasn't cheap (in fact I had to up my mobile plan in order to tether and use it away from Wifi). But there is talk that the ones who were chosen to buy the Explorer version might get a free Glass in its final version when it gets released.