????此外，LiveStream還是一款非常有價值的招聘工具。他建議：“要求一名員工佩戴谷歌眼鏡，錄制當天見到的典型或有趣的瞬間。然后將這些瞬間剪輯成一段短視頻——‘生命中的一天’，藉此向求職者推銷自己的公司和文化。”

????谷歌Glassware商店中有55款應用和集成功能，這些應用聽起來與眼鏡本身一樣未來感十足。例如，對于被派往海外但尚未熟練掌握本地語言的管理者來說，Word Lens能提供極大幫助。該應用利用谷歌眼鏡的攝像頭翻譯打印的文字，之后將翻譯后的文本覆蓋到原始文本上。

????可為什么谷歌眼鏡并未達到人手一部的規模？首先，谷歌眼鏡目前的基本價格是1,500美元，加上稅費，會令大多數消費者望而卻步。尼古拉斯說道：“谷歌必須將谷歌眼鏡的價格降到智能手機的水平，才能讓大多數人考慮購買它。”其次是技術難題，例如谷歌眼鏡過短的電池續航時間——“充其量只能延續4至6個小時，如果錄像，續航時間會更短”——還有WiFi頻繁掉線的問題。尼古拉斯說道：“很顯然，這款產品仍屬測試版。”

????不僅如此，他補充道：“谷歌應該讓谷歌眼鏡看起來更像普通眼鏡。現在的谷歌眼鏡外形太過顯著，甚至沒有智能手表低調，這會讓你周圍的人不舒服。”更不用說在鏡子里看自己時的尷尬。最近，一位用戶在亞馬遜上評論說，他的谷歌眼鏡讓自己看起來“傻到家了。”

????盡管如此，尼古拉斯還是認為谷歌眼鏡有巨大的潛力，他希望谷歌能繼續增加更多性能，解決其他問題。到目前為止，谷歌對谷歌眼鏡的未來計劃一直三緘其口。他說道：“現在，谷歌似乎專注于企業級應用。如果他們不打算繼續針對普通應用對谷歌眼鏡進行完善，那就太令人遺憾了。”（財富中文網）

????譯者：劉進龍/汪皓

????LiveStream might be a valuable recruiting tool, too. “Ask an employee to wear Glass and record typical or interesting moments throughout the day,” he suggests. “This can be edited down to a short ‘day in the life’ video you could use to market your company and its culture to job candidates.”

????Some of the 55 apps and integrations available from Google’s Glassware store sound almost as futuristic as the glasses look. Word Lens, for instance, could be a huge help to managers sent on overseas assignments who haven’t yet picked up much of the local language. It uses the Glass camera to translate printed words, and then overlays the translated text on top of the original.

????So how come we’re not all sporting these specs? For one thing, the current base price of $1,500 plus tax is a bit steep for most consumers. “Google will have to get it closer to the price of a smartphone before most people will really look at buying it,” says Nicholus. Then there are technical difficulties, like Glass’s short battery life—“four to six hours at best, and much shorter if you’re filming”—and glitches like frequent WiFi disconnections. “It’s definitely still in beta,” Nicholus notes.

????Not only that, but “Google is going to have to make Glass look more like ordinary glasses,” he adds. “Right now, it’s very noticeable, unlike even a smartwatch, and it does make people around you uncomfortable.” Not to mention how you look to yourself in the mirror. One recent reviewer on Amazon noted that his pair makes him look “dorky beyond anything I could have imagined.”

????Even so, Nicholus sees so much potential in Glass that he’s hoping Google GOOG -2.36% —which has so far been tight-lipped about its plans—will continue to add even more capabilities and work out the remaining bugs. “They seem to be focused on enterprise uses right now,” he notes. “But if they aren’t planning to keep adapting it for general use too, that would really be a shame.”