Battle of the Titans: Google Glass with Apple iWatch

Compared with all other wearable computing devices, Google Glass is more able to make the user and the information domain to establish a more intimate relationship.

Beijing time on May 28, foreign media recently published Google glasses and people speculated that Apple iWatch will launch a smart watch were compared. The article points out that the difference between Google Glass and iWatch lies not only in the location of the wearer, but more importantly, the former will provide a brand new computing paradigm that will allow users to establish more intimate contact with the information domain.

In the upcoming war on wearable computing devices, The Giant's Battle between Google Glass and Apple's iWatch will be the focus.

Both Google and Apple are attacking the "battlefield" of wearable computing devices, but in completely different directions. So, which company will dominate? Of course, it now appears that the war is showing a one-sided picture because Google Glass is already a real product, although still only open to developers; and In contrast, iWatch is still only people's guess. However, let's assume that both products will soon become real products and take a look at their respective strengths and weaknesses.

Difference in wearing position: Face VS Wrist

Comparison of Google Glass and Apple iWatch first start from the physical location, which is where the two products were worn in the human body.

iWatch: Wrist can easily be the target of wearable computing devices, as wristwatches have been the "home" of technological advancement since the watch era of the 1920s and even more so in the digital watch revolution of the 1970s Is reached its peak, many people are accustomed to wearing technology products on the wrist.

It is easy to imagine that by the time we actually saw Apple's iWatch, its specifications would outperform today's best smartphone. But behind the aura of iWatch, the product is actually just moving advanced technology from one's pocket to the wrist with a smaller display. Or, the smartwatch is simply a satellite center that already has a smartphone that shows filtered notifications to people whose touchscreen interface provides only limited, interactive functionality to people.

In addition, users still need to pull up sleeves to see the smart watch's display. But on the other hand, when people do not use smartwatches, it does not give people unexpected feeling.

Google Glass: Putting advanced technology on the face needs to overcome a much larger cultural barrier than smartwatches. If Google Glass wants to be successful, then people must be accustomed to wearing a computing device on their faces and interacting with other people who are equally willing to do so. But unlike smartwatches, Google Glass is not as simple as shifting the location of a phone's display, but rather offering a whole new way of computing.

The unique benefits that smart glasses can bring to people include:

- Real liberation of hands calculation;

- A camera that can truly record first-person view video and capture still-life first-person views;

- head tracking (to know where people are looking);

- private audio (via bone conduction);

- View private information.

Even the most sophisticated smartwatches can not bring people these benefits described above. In short, Google Glass gives users a more intimate relationship with the information domain than with any other wearable computing device (excluding devices that need to be ported).

It is also important that Google Glass give them more information than the user's natural perspective of the world. The relationship between the user of the smart phone and the smart watch and the display screen is relatively isolated, which separates the user from the outside world. In comparison with this, the Google glasses can provide a translucent display overlapping with the real world Screen, users can bring seamless use of experience.

This means that Google Glass can dramatically reduce the time it takes users to access information from documents or the Internet, and with less effort. Although Google Glass has so far been a prototype, smart glasses with a good engineering design can reduce the processing time for many tasks from 12 seconds to less than 3 seconds. Saving 9 seconds does not seem like much time, but it is estimated that people use smartphones up to 100 or more times per day, which means that the overall time saved is enormous. In fact, Google Glass users save 13 minutes a day, saving nearly 80 hours a year, which is equivalent to two weeks of working days.

In addition, Google Glass also gives people a more labor-saving use of experience: When using smart phones, people need to take the phone out of his pocket, press a few buttons, and then type; and in the use of Google Glass, people only Need to look up to the sky, say "OK Glass" can be.

As a result, the message is no longer dancing at people's fingertips, but closer than their fingertips. Google Glass makes information retrieval so fluid that it integrates perfectly with people's minds; in the ideal world, Google Glass will become a natural extension of the human brain and thought process.

Google glasses is still a long way to go

From a practical point of view, Google glasses to fulfill this commitment is still a long way to go; but if Google Glass can fully realize the concept of the idea, then the benefits of this product will have a real Revolutionary People may not want to wear Google Glass because of social and fashion reasons, but will these benefits of Google Glass overwhelm people's traditional beliefs and make them willing to use it? Possibilities exist, especially if Google succeeds in turning Google Glass into a coveted fashion product. And if Google can do that, then iWatch can only sadly leave.