Giarty

Hey tdeck, thank you so much for taking the time to think about my app! I'm glad you got the concept.

I agree with what you write about folks' motivation, let me add that the users of the app are required, if they want to see the details of an endorsement, to enter an endorsement of their own (until they do that, they will just see "Alice endorses a plumber"). In fact I want to leverage a little also the curiosity of people to see the names that their friends are endorsing.

Perhaps the biggest push to use and spread the app, could be the need for providers to spread their offerings. Say I seek customers as a babysitter, I will download the app, enter my profile, and then ask to all my contacts to endorse me on the app (and preferably then spread the app to their contacts as well, with the message "Anyone seeks a babysitter?"). I'm trying to follow this path, currently without success, but I know that some people have been able to spread similar apps, so I need to understand how they did it.

As for the revenue model, it is the usual one for yellow pages: providers pay if they want to enter info on their listing. I agree that it's good to state it clearly in the FAQs.

Would you wish to take part in this project? Have you done something similar?

Cheers, Francesco.

We didn't want to do a camera version actually, because we see our product as a tool rather than a toy. But then we found it's necessary for object recognition, plus many people are asking for it, so we'll have it, it's already in offer on our IndieGoGo campaign http://igg.me/at/glassup/x/3553080

However we don't want to upset people's privacy feelings, so we'll make the camera version very evident, with a big writing "You're on air" or something.

You're right, but the design will improve very much. We are in the middle of the world biggest eyewear industry, and we're making agreements with them for the frame.

The point of these first prototypes was only to prove, first of all to ourselves, that the system could fit in little room and weight.

It will be balanced by putting the battery on the right, and regulating the weights. This prototype has no battery because it's still tied to a pc, it's just for testing.

Yes, the litigation is ongoing. We object that we can not call our Glass other than glass, because that's what it is (check the dictionary). Otherwise we want be able to call any other wearable "shoe", "glove", or whatever, just because someone uses that term first.

And however, if anyone can litigate us on that name it would be my friend Steve Mann, who has been using it for about twenty years: Glass generation 1, Glass generation 2, ... See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality