Google Glasses & why it did not work?

Ok, a little late to the party with this one but here are my thoughts**.

While at Google, I got the chance to try and play with Google glasses and was immediately underwhelmed, sure once we got onto translating road signs it was kind of cool, the photo element worked (just) and directions seemed useful.

So what was wrong:

1) The person who built it, had clearly been watching Terminator and then point blank refused to admit it. I brought this up (on numerous occasions), my point being it would work for police facial recognition technology, just like Arni had, lock on and destroy type stuff. However no one seemed to get this? However for normal people it was just not useful.
2) Not enough apps, they wanted to build it all on the fact you can translate things, use a map and then take a photo, we were all board within about 5 minutes. They needed some fun things, we had a quick brainstorm and this is what we came up with:
Time travel app, be able to flick back in time, so if you are walking along oxford street you can say "Google Glasses dinosaurs" it then immediately changes your outlook to how it would be when dinosaurs roamed the world.
Doom app: a real life game of Doom with other people whereing Google glasses.
Weather: You want it to be sunny, no problem, google glasses has that sorted (same with snow etc).
3) It should not be Google Glasses to start it should be "go go Google glasses" these are basics and I expected better from Google.

Overall though (& being slightly more serious) it was a good idea and the type of things google should be doing (& are) and maybe just one of these days they will be able to make the reality as good as the idea.

**not all of this article is serious.....