After wearing Google Glass for a month, Kyle Samani, co-founder of Pristine, says that the unit is useless as a consumer device.
“The social awkwardness doesn’t justify the value of wearing it,” he said. “The smart phone is really good at what it does and Glass isn’t a substitute.”
Samani sees enterprise apps as the real value of the invention.
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“Construction workers, surgeons, it makes sense for people doing something hands on,” he said.
Both he and co-founder Patrick Kolencherry are Google beta developers. They received one unit as part of the initial rollout to that group. They are also buying units from people to use in their startup: building software for operating rooms.
“People are open to the idea of us taking it off their hands,” he said. “People have started playing with it and realized that unless you have enterprise domain specific knowledge, it is useless.”
He is also hoping to get a batch of units from Google once the company has completed a pilot project with a hospital.
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At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
“We are not not just making a game or a shopping app,” he said. “Our pitch to Google will be ‘Please give us more units – we can save people’s lives.'”
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