Wearable hardware development and innovation

Wearable hardware such as watches and glasses has slowly become the focus of tech bloggers. The announcement of the Google Glass API on Southwest China (SXSW) seems to have stimulated the G-point of N multi-national programmers , Some people even claim that these wearable products in China will turn off the phone's life, just as the iPad gradually replaced the PC. In fact, we should not just throw away the words of "extinction" or "replacement" and think carefully about the future from "people" and "needs".

1) Market cultivation is a long process

The market has never been accomplished overnight. The game was first manufactured Atari, but the development is Nintendo; the author touch the earliest touch-screen mobile phone is Dopod Windows Mobile, but the real "all mobile phones are touch screen" change is the iPhone. Even the emergence of a popular iPad, in fact, no iPhone and iTouch market development, it is hard to imagine there will be excellent results.

Whether it is watches or glasses, touch screen will not be the main means of interpersonal communication.

Watch: Voice + Gyroscope + Cross-screen slideshow will become the main mode of operation in which voice will become a very different operational separation from the phone. Double click on the Home, to identify the owner's voice, and follow the owner's command to jump out of the last three to-do items is how the use of natural form. "Notify" will become an important key word of the watch: Missed calls, to-do items, important private messages, emails of a VIP mailbox, all notifications will appear on the watch.

Although many online PS shows an "unlocked interface", I think the watch as a further privatization than the phone, there is no other people touch your cell phone, so the lock has become an unnecessary display. There should only be two statuses for the watch: standby black and white display time and status of important notifications, and LED lights up to see the status of notifications. Activate voice control via hardware keys, similar to the plot of 007 and Q Dr. intercom.

Glasses: From the previous release of the Google+ Glass display video, the meaning of glasses is AR and capture sharing. Voice and gesture control become the main mode of operation. Including percussion, looking up can wake up glasses.

Being able to capture and analyze the person you are talking to using the camera and recalling the name and past SMS / chat history is a great boon to people with poor memory; even GPS and map-based searches Out of the current things to see, to provide Wikipedia and other voice messages, are able to imagine the more practical purposes.

Photography, sharing and so on can further promote the development of Google+, but I do not expect most people are interested in glasses, so the actual significance is far less obvious than the watch.

2) Impact on our portable IT product configuration?

Just as micro-single did not replace the high-end SLR, laptops did not replace the game PC, the day out of the smart phone is unimaginable. Glasses can view the picture, but can not preview a large number of pictures like a cell phone; the watch can receive the notification, but it is important or irrelevant. It must be confirmed in the cell phone and the important email in the cell phone.

Limited screen and limited means of operation inherently limit their development. At least for five years, it's impossible to see scenes like science fiction movies - leaving only the watch on the terminal, the glasses can jump out of a host of analytics interfaces and do everything in the projection.

3) life decision life and death

Price is not a problem, Apple's hardware profiteering shows: sacrificing profits in exchange for market share is not the most intelligent way, so the price from the 1000 + glasses glasses can be seen, the price is not really a problem. The key is: what kind of mobile phone you can bring convenience, what new value for the user.

The other point is the battery life, after synchronization of smart phones, glasses and watches will be "permanently online", the current battery technology, taking into account the size and capacity is very difficult, such as the 2nd of a watch or glasses filled with unacceptable Solar energy is a good way out. For now, to be able to do more than 4 days of normal use, may be more acceptable to players, after all, in the larger power head screen are relatively small premise, the control of power consumption should be the primary consideration.

Summary: The pace of IT product development once again follow the United States - China - the world's rhythm. I hope the bulk of the domestic software can catch this bus. Anyway, I have very confidence in launching WeChat watches, how do you think?