{"id":13441,"date":"2015-02-09T03:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13441"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:02:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:02:25","slug":"how-the-camera-doomed-google-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/how-the-camera-doomed-google-glass","title":{"rendered":"How the Camera Doomed Google Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"authors\"><a class=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/jake-swearingen\/\" rel=\"author\">Jake Swearingen<\/a><\/span> \u2014 The Atlantic<br \/>\n<br \/> Since its debut in 2012, Google Glass always faced a strong headwind. Even <a href=\"http:\/\/41.media.tumblr.com\/a4d00d2bdb8046780828b7be0483fc1f\/tumblr_mw2d9p7eQd1sk3ox5o1_1280.jpg\">on celebrities it looked, well, dorky<\/a>. The device itself, once released in the wild, was seen as half-baked, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/11\/14\/us-google-glass-insight-idUSKCN0IY18E20141114\">developers lost interest.<\/a> The press, already leery, was quick to dog pile, especially when Glass\u2019s users quickly became<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewire.com\/technology\/2013\/04\/rise-term-glasshole-explained-linguists\/64363\/\"> Glass\u2019s own worst enemy. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many early adopters who got their hands on the device (and paid $1,500 for the privilege under the Google Explorer program) were underwhelmed. \u201cI found that it was not very useful for very much, and it tended to disturb people around me that I have this thing,\u201d said James Katz, Boston University\u2019s director of emerging media studies, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/featuredstory\/532691\/google-glass-is-dead-long-live-smart-glasses\/\">to <em>MIT Technology Review. <\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/01\/how-the-camera-doomed-google-glass\/384570\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Swearingen \u2014 The Atlantic Since its debut in 2012, Google Glass always faced a strong headwind. Even on celebrities it looked, well, dorky. The device itself, once released in the wild, was seen as half-baked, and developers lost interest. The press, already leery, was quick to dog pile, especially when Glass\u2019s users quickly became [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64833,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13441\/revisions\/64833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}