{"id":228,"date":"2016-03-01T19:40:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T03:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/?p=228"},"modified":"2023-02-15T17:57:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T01:57:40","slug":"smart-glasses-in-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/smart-glasses-in-the-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Glasses in the Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3031171\/the-surprising-reason-oil-companies-love-google-glass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.fastcompany.net\/multisite_files\/fastcompany\/imagecache\/1280\/poster\/2014\/05\/3031171-poster-p-2-google-glass-oil-fields.jpg?resize=640%2C360\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">All too often I&#8217;ve read electronic gadget reviews panning smart glasses as looking too dorky, too geeky to catch on with consumers. \u00a0Well hold on there! \u00a0You&#8217;re confining your reviews to consumer electronics customers and ignoring the many workplace applications. \u00a0Take a look at this video and tell me these roughnecks\u00a0give a flip about appearing dorky.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lkH88TTgt6A?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The recent film based on the book &#8220;The Martian&#8221; is filled with this kind of field reconnaissance audio and video. \u00a0These are impressive tools, and their development won&#8217;t end because they don&#8217;t look cool in a shopping mall, health club or sports bar. \u00a0<em>They won&#8217;t even be allowed there!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/01\/zeiss-smart-glasses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wired article about Zeiss getting their glasses right<\/a>,\u00a0we see another example of over concern for fashion. \u00a0So you wanna wear your smart glasses while doing air travel? \u00a0Or sneak them into a casino so a friend can coach you at the poker table? \u00a0<em>Fuggeddaboudit!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I see these gadgets being much more useful for working situations with a field technician wearing the glasses and a home base office operations person assisting and analyzing data. \u00a0These devices will be best employed in collaborative situations, such as a look out scout reporting back to the team back at the base.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All too often I&#8217;ve read electronic gadget reviews panning smart glasses as looking too dorky, too geeky to catch on with consumers. \u00a0Well hold on there! \u00a0You&#8217;re confining your reviews to consumer electronics customers and ignoring the many workplace applications. \u00a0Take a look at this video and tell me these roughnecks\u00a0give a flip about appearing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ux","tag-smart-glasses","tag-wearables"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Stylish-Google-Glass.jpg?fit=1280%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73ygx-3G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}