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Are you kidding me? At the very least, wearable computing as a form factor is going to be huge. And Google has the resources and flagship product to pull a big win. It's a convenient, hands free device with display. I suspect this is one of the main reasons their stock has been doing so well lately.

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Wearable computing is absolutely going to be huge.

But there is no way to escape the fact that most people consider glasses and watches to be fashion accessories. And to make the next mass market device you will need to live and breathe fashion. Which effectively means doing what Apple is doing and bringing in experienced people like Paul Deneve from (Yves) Saint Laurent.

If anyone can do it, it might be Google. It's going to take a ton of internal development to further Google Glass from their last prototypes. With smartphones setting the expectation, the general public and even techies are going to want something slim, streamlined, and performant. The TI GPU processor that Google Glass comes with isn't exactly performant enough to do the crazy VR stuff we want.

> If anyone can do it, it might be Google.

I think you misspelled Apple.

Remember, you're talking about the people who shipped the Chromebook Pixel with a super-high-res touchscreen... without pinch-to-zoom enabled.

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