I tried on Google Glass a few times.  I wasn’t impressed.  Does that mean it’s an awful product?  No.  Does that mean it is not useful?  No.  So what happened?

This week the Wall St. Journal reported that Google is not giving up on Google Glass.  Google acknowledges that it was a first generation product with some rough edges, but they still see a future for wearable computing.

[Eric Schmitt, Google Executive Chairman] said Glass, like Google’s self-driving car, is a long-term project. “That’s like saying the self-driving car is a disappointment because it’s not driving me around now,” he said. “These things take time.”

I kept my initial impressions in check.  I was certainly impressed with the execution of such a radical new product, but I knew the first version was not meant to be the Nintendo 3DS or Sony Walkman – some wildly popular consumer electronics device that everyone will own.  It was a proof of concept that would allow Google to learn what worked and what didn’t work in the wearable computing space.