{"id":17818,"date":"2013-03-07T10:24:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T18:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content26.com\/?p=17818"},"modified":"2017-02-14T11:19:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T19:19:27","slug":"google-glass-makes-a-case-for-future-proofing-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/987654321.space\/c26_dev\/blog\/google-glass-makes-a-case-for-future-proofing-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Glass Makes a Case for Future-Proofing Content"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google<\/strong>\u00a0is nearing a consumer launch of what will be the first wearable mobile device. Google Glass, which a year ago was still sci-fi speculation, will be available to a select 8,000 consumers any day now. Aside from fashion and design concerns (of which there are<\/a> many<\/a>), the buzz around Glass is what it will do for–and to–the network.<\/p>\n

Get Elastic<\/strong> recently speculated on some of the ways Google Glass may prove to be disruptive–not a disruptive device, but a device that hosts disruptive services. Quoting David Chiu:<\/p>\n

The disruptive part will be the evolution\/creation of digital products and services which provide value-adds that weren’t previously practical without that specific kind of screen (PC, laptop, television, tablet, mobile, and now wearable).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of those value-adds is search. Google already offers image capture search in its mobile app, but Glass may go a few steps further by combining search functionality with Google’s databases and a predictive decision engine to enable a user to basically just look at a product they’re interested in, then add it to a virtual cart and purchase within seconds.<\/p>\n

More disruptive than that is Glass’s potential to be platform agnostic: rather than requiring a native operating system and native apps, Glass would rely on apps in the cloud. Such a shift would change the way consumers interact with the currently browser-based Internet.<\/p>\n

We think it’s too early to start throwing the term “g-commerce” around. But Google is serious enough about making Glass a viable consumer product that the company will be opening retail stores within the year<\/a>, it’s rumored.<\/p>\n

Read more about Google Glass’s disruptive potential at getelastic.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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