No, you say? You have no desire whatsoever to see the world through these people’s eyes? Well, you will soon enough, if Google Glass has anything to say about it.
Livelens, a Tel Aviv-based startup that lets users record and live stream video for their friends, has just teamed up with Google to create an app for Glass. Now, Explorers can watch their friends live stream their everyday activities, from grocery shopping to mowing the lawn, through their perspective. Users can monetize their live streams as well, which means that you can charge a fee for your friends to watch you literally doing nothing on Glass.
If this sounds painfully dull to you, that’s because it very well could be. As annoyed as we are with being inundated with minutiae from our friends’ lives on Facebook and Twitter, that frustration would be nothing compared to watching five minutes of a former coworker live streaming her daughter’s high school graduation party on Livelens. And let’s not even talk about the horrifying implications an app like Livelens, not to mention Glass itself, has for user privacy.
What could potentially make an app like Livelens successful, however, is if celebrities used it to broadcast their own lives, as BetaBeat points out. It’s not difficult to imagine how awesome it would be to watch, say, Jennifer Lawrence livestreaming from an Oscars after party, or Kanye West backstage after a concert. But for us plebes, there’s probably no one we know personally whose life is interesting enough that we’d actually want them to live stream it—and to be honest, our own lives probably aren’t riveting enough either.
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