Ultan O'Broin revisits his GDG Dublin July 2012 Google I/O Extended presentation on Google Glass. Now a Glass Explorer, Ultan gives an quick fire update on Google Glass development community engagement, opportunities for business, and makes a call to action. Includes use cases and references to read yourselves too.

1. Google Developer Group Dublin
Project Glass Revisited 2013:
Enterprise and Other
Opportunities for Google
Glass Developers
An update to the 31 July 2012 presentation by Ultan O’Broin at GDG Dublin Ireland Google I/0 Extended
Meetup (available on slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/uvox/project-glass-13818470 )
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Wearables
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Uptake in the Community
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Enterprise Opportunities
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Issues
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Call to Action
Ultan O’Broin (@ultan)
Email: ultan.mashup@gmail.com
Disclosure: Ultan O’Broin is a Director in the Oracle Applications User Experience team in the United States with responsibility for
development relations and ISV outreach. Opinions and views expressed in this presentation are not necessarily those of Oracle.

2. Update
• Glass Explorers program
launched 2012
• GMAIL-style “invitation”
expansion, Oct and
November 2013
• I obtained Google Glass in
November 2013
• Exploring and identifying
enterprise(!) uses cases in
U.S. and EMEA

3. Glass now a “Wearable”
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Smart watches (Pebble, Samsung Gear, WIIM One. etc)
Fitness bands (Jawbone UP, FitBit, Nike FuelBand)
“Quantifiable Self”
Kickstarter
Sensors
Open Computer Vision
Dominated by fitness,
healthcare
• Other wearables
emerging (Sony patent on wigs!)

4. Uptake in the Dev Community
• Meetups and hackathons in
U.S.
• European interest
(lunnettesGoogle.fr)
• Explorer “Glassholes”
• Google Development
Guidelines
• SDK Now Available (Nov
2013)
• IFTTT.com recipes
• Appearance of Usability
Guidelines and Heuristics

5. Enterprise Use Cases Emerge..
• Healthcare sensors, medical inspection,
diagnosis, operations
• APIs, services startups: data and
integrations
• In-Field Service: Travel and onsite
real-time knowledge
• In-house service (inspection &
knowledge bases)
• Warehousing, Supply Chain
Management, Order management
• Mobile. CRM Sales objects (social
media, places, people, things)
• Anything social, hands-free,
collaborative, simple
• Info cards, analytics on
sales, finance, HR, social objects

6. Issues
• Cost (1,700 USD inc tax)
• Features: no prescription
lenses,
lack of options,
sound clutter
• No killer app
• WiFi &Bluetooth anchor
• Android App, no IOS
• Naff Geeky Styling
• Social issues: Fear,
Jealousy, Privacy concerns and abuse
• In many ways use cases in the enterprise make more sense
than on the street.

7. Conclusion / Call to Action
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Exciting enterprise opportunities
Program likely to reach EMEA and wider (U.S. residents only now)
Costly for individual explorers, but will fall on production
Great business, data and services innovation possible
Google and Read
• WSJ: “Wearable Gadgets Transform How Companies Do Business”
• Palo Alto Online: “Tinkering with Google Glass to expand wearable tech”
• https://Blogs.oracle.com/userassistance/ > “Dress Code 2.0: Wearables”
(http://www.slideshare.net/MartaRauch/augmented-reality-and-googleglass)
• www.multilingualblog.com > “Localizing Wearables: If Google Glass Had
Italian Stylists” (Ultan O’Broin)
• www.Slideshare.net > “Augmented Reality and Google Glass (Marta Rauch)
• Love to see Ireland-based meetup group exploring device and
integrations for enterprise and other use
• Contact me: ultan.mashup@gmail.com or via @ultan