Google Glass: 9 million connected glasses in 2016?

Will Google Glass pave the way for connected glasses? Despite the attention they’ve aroused on the web for months, it’s hard to plan for Google Glass’s future commercial success on the comet. And for good reason when we know At what price will the connected glasses be marketed?. Still, according to a recent study by IHS, the best seems to be to be hoped for. IHS predicts that sales of type glass will increase 150% from 50,000 to 124,000 units in 2013. It’s huge, especially when you know that current users are application developers.

9.4 million Google Glass and other connected glasses in 2016?

Still, that’s nothing compared to the research firm’s estimates for 2014. Google Glass and connected glasses competitors need to increase by 250%, corresponding to 6.6 million units by 2016 and 9.4 million by the end of the year.

Given the price at which they’re offered, it remains an app-motivated purchase first and foremost because they are what make the product appealing above all else. You are sure to fail without apps. Also, as analyst Theo Ahadome points out, it’s the communications product that consumers place the least emphasis on on the hardware part. And it makes quite a lot of sense, as it’s the one that provides all the benefits of Google glasses.

Google is investing everything in augmented reality software because they are the ones who will truly pave the way for Google Glass.

Note, however, that in addition to this rosy and optimistic scenario, IHS developed another completely contradictory theory, with only one million units sold by 2016. It’s a script based on a limited number of apps, namely those compiled in Google’s promotional video, a simple video capture software.

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