Hrm. I find that wearing things that aren't strictly necessary irritates me. I don't even like watches, let alone some thing attached to my face. When I raced bikes, I ended up dumping the annoying heart rate monitor too as I did not like having this thing strapped to me. Phones work pretty well as they're just along for the ride, like a wallet or keys, and don't constrain me.
I wear glasses and despise contacts. I guess I could get laser surgery, but I'm used enough to glasses that I would never bother with the cost or risk.
I don't see how this is very different from wearing glasses.
But when you wear glasses you get to choose the design and look that fits your personality. It's also a fashion accessory.
I love my glasses, but part of the reason I love them is because I have not (yet) met a single person with the same glasses as mine, and I've had them for 3 years now.
I wouldn't feel so happy wearing something every other person wears.
I agree. I also ditched HRM on the bike, but even found something as innocuous as a Fitbit a burden.
When the Fitbit worked, it worked well... but then after a couple of weeks it broke and when the utility and value of it has fallen away it is immediately an annoyance.
I think, for Google, that ensuring that the value proposition is quite solid (mature offering of services via Glass) that it will do well.
The worst thing for them would be to launch too early when the value is not yet proven, and for poor network connectivity, poor software, to turn the "Wow" into annoyance.
