Google I/O Extended Extended GDG Dublin, Ireland 31 July 2012

Project Glass
What is it? What does it mean for user experience, business, and innovation? Dev uptake, issues, and call to action in Ireland.
Ultan OBroin (ultan.mashup@gmail.com) / @ultan Disclosure: Oracle Employee: Director of Applications User Experience Opinions and views are not necessarily those of Oracle.

What is it?
Google X Lab R and D project Head mounted, hands-free display for useful, organized, information (data, visualizations) NLP, voice, other input Android O/S Dedicated glasses, other integration, form factors possible (car windscreen?, windows? buildings, glass walls?)

Sci-fi? Not New

Augmented Reality apps Military

What is New?
Consumerization of sci-fi R&D device (trend) Wearable device Integration with data, services New business opportunities: Mobile, BYOD, COIT Another Mobile option? More than that

Possible Use Cases / Opps

CRM
Infield service glass-based maps, geo-location, information, customer information, knowledge based access. Sales management: Analytics, predictive power in real-time Multilingual customers: Google Translate, NLP

Learning device in-situ Gaming True mobile; cars, bikers, pedestrians, home viewing Fashion? Skinning? Geo-location ads, maps, information, MT, analytics, big data Lots possible go beyond the device, explore the data integrations, APIs, services

Dev Uptake / Sources

Product developer version / SDK 1,500 USD early 2013 (Google Glass Explorer Edition) Consumer version = ? +1 year Sources/References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Glass https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts http://vocal.ie/the-future-of-mobile-google%E2%80%99s-projectglass/ http://www.i-programmer.info/news/190-augmentedvirtualreality-arvr/4030-google-glass-how-it-could-be.html http://www.crazyengineers.com/googles-project-glass-inspiredglasses-do-real-time-language-translation-2469/

Issues?
Performance (cant be any worse than mobile) Accessibility (S508, WAI, visual, other impairments) Security (enterprise) Health and Safety? Ads in your eyes? Fashion issues (opportunity, Bono, GaGa?) Onboarding in large user profiled orgs? Usual BYOD (blogs.oracle.com/userassistance)

Conclusion / Call to Action

Exciting, consumer-driven integration of BYOD and data possibilities Costly for individual developers Great business, learning, data and services innovation possible Love to see Ireland-based group exploring device and data integrations for tourism, non-profits, language learning, interpretation, commuting, business apps, (CRM) Contact me: ultan.mashup@gmail.com