[x3d-public] Why Google Glass Broke - NYTimes.com

[cbullard at hiwaay.net]

It's a fascinating market from a historical perspective.  Some small groups
succeed by staying on the edge of the standard but essentially building
proprietary mostly non interoperable model libraries.  A handful of mostly
proprietary engines consume mostly interoperable model libraries but render
them in almost faithful but not quite faithful scenes.   The artists are
left to ride the churn or lose the investment in building the art.  Meanwhile
a new generation of hardware vendors create wholly non-interoperable systems
of content and iron.

Worlds without end and not enough profit to create and end to end  
marketplace, amen.  Very successful corporations invest substantial  
resources and yet again
and again are starved like Hannibal's armies and forced to sail back  
to Carthage without the prize.   A standard said dead by market  
prophet after prophet is the only one still standing from the early  
years.  VRML/X3D won't die.

A market analyst should puzzle over this.  A university graduate  
student should
write a paper to answer the question:  why does this market never  
congeal?  There are survivors but no market winners.  Why?

len

> Quoting Mitchell Williams <mitchellwi at google.com>:

> Interesting article.
>
> I just attended the Silicon Valley Android Developers Meetup and they had a
> presentation on Google Glass to help children with autism.  Ned Sahin,
> neuroscientist
>  from Harvard (http://www.nedsahin.com/) discussed how they were using
> Glass, and that it's not exactly dead, just version 0.1  His project is at
> http://brain-power.com/
>
> As we know from Web 3D, technology evolves with many good concepts dead on
> the roadside, and others following in those trails blazed by those before
> it.
>
> Mitch
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Don Brutzman <brutzman at nps.edu> wrote:
>
>> [Original headline: "Broken Glass"]
>>
>> Style:  Why Google Glass Broke
>>
>> by Nick Bilton, New York Times, FEB. 4, 2015
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/style/why-google-glass-broke.html
>>
>>  This is a story that involves lots of public intrigue, a futuristic
>>> wearable technology, a secret laboratory, fashion models, sky divers and an
>>> interoffice love triangle that ended a billionaire?s marriage. This is the
>>> story of Google Glass.
>>>
>>> Before we begin, this is the part in the tale where I should probably
>>> explain what Google Glass is. Except, I don?t have to. Google Glass didn?t
>>> just trickle out into the world. Instead, it exploded with the kind of fuss
>>> and pageantry usually reserved for an Apple iSomething.
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>> all the best, Don
>> --
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>> brutzman at nps.edu
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>> brutzman
>>
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