The Google Glass revolution and g-commerce

What we currently know about the new device is that it will allow hands free access to information such as weather, stock prices, GPS, e-mail, video calls…It will also allow taking pictures and videos and all that though natural language voice recognition.

With the launch of the Google Glass explorer program, and the approaching public launch of the device, we decided to dedicate this post to the impact the device will have on e-commerce or as some early-birds started calling it G-commerce.

While the true impact and use of Google glass will only be known after the public launch, a lot of people have started predicting potential uses of the Glass. One of the main impacts of the Glass will definitely be the ability to search on the go and as we know the Google mobile search app already allows image capture search. We can therefore imagine walking into a bookstore and looking at/scanning a barcode would bring up information about the book, Google shopping would allow price comparison with other vendors and combined with google maps show the best location to get the book in question. Even more impressive, imagine entering a clothing shop, finding a nice shirt, scanning it and have google shopping find it online, automatically suggest the cheapest vendor including shipping costs and allows you to add it to you shopping cart and buy it online without having to take out your wallet or share your financial information with a third party.

Google Glass could truly revolution the way we shop!