Google Glass price issues are something that is hitting us in the face even before the Glass is released the general public. You have to wonder why this particular technology which may be classified as a wearable tech device is having so much trouble when among the mainstream public: Is it something we're not ready for, is there a breach of privacy, worse a chance that someone might 'upskirt' using a head device, or is it just the shape of it that turns you off.
Well maybe a combination of all of these. Google may be user friendly for the person using it, but it certainly does make some people uncomfortable, paranoid and maybe a little edgy that they are being prowled on.
The Google Glass culture issues surfacing on the street has to be reckoned with. After a high supreme judicial court ruled that upskirting or taking photos 'up' skirts was ok, the Massachusetts Governor quick legislation that it was against the law and infringement on women's privacy. That has to be common sense at some level.
And the same holds true for Google Glass. The pricey technology can make some people feel inferior of the technology costs in the range of $1500 - that's how much the explorers have to pay for it. This itself creates division in communities, just like an iPhone would stand out among users who could afford just Chinese clones.
So, what does it mean if people are getting attacked, and Homeland Security is taking people out of theatres and women are pulled over on the highway for wearing this device? It will be hard o sell this concept to the mainstream because if someone on the street feels they are in danger because someone is wearing Google Glass and is looking at you to take photos or videos, there is going to be a backlash. It would be similar to videotaping a drug deal or a gang activity of some sort.
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Another writer Sarah Slocum told reporters last weekend that she was attacked for wearing her Google glasses.
"I got verbally and physically assaulted [sic] and robbed last night in the city, had things thrown at me because of some. Google Glass haters, then some *bleeeeeeeeeep* tore them off my face and ran out with them then and when I ran out after him his *bleeeeeeep* friends stole my purse, cellphone wallet [sic] and everything," Slocum wrote on Facebook.
She added, "I have video of one of the girls saying that 'we are destroying the city'," she wrote. "Right before this happened I was showing one of the normal, excited and curious individuals there how it works, letting them try it on and demonstrating it for them. This is the experience 95% of the time. These other people were just bitter, ugly, nasty, angry, jealous, confused and threatened people and this was apparently their hive."
These stories of misunderstanding about technology make it imperative that users of high end tech gadgets being introduced into the mainstream make an effort to use the 'Google Glass Etiquette', a common guideline for using fancy gadgets in the public.
The Wall Street Journal describes the scenario as: "New technology has a way of bringing out our rude and annoying side--just think of the guy who walked into you while composing a text or the woman in line at the dry cleaner who was shouting into her cell phone."
In fact, Google Glass has come up with some guidelines for you to use, while wearing the computer device on your head. And so somebody doesn't call you a 'glasshole,' a term that describes a person walking around with a band on his head, winking and taking photos.
"Respect others, and if they have questions about Glass don't get snappy," cautions Goggle Glass.
It goes without saying that when your cell phone, is asked to be turned off, you need to turn off the Google Glass.
You're also requested to not "glass out," or zone out, which means 'space out' in layman's words. They are intended for short bursts of info and looking into the prism for long periods is not a good idea." People might you're rude as well.
Google makes a point saying that people don't' ignore a Google Glass.
"Google emphasizes the positive with a list of dos. Most audaciously, given what the technology does, Google claims it encourages us to "explore the world around you."