Taking a Betacam and swooshing it around to dramatize a crime scene or ride down a slide was a cutting edge story telling device in 1985. POV as it’s called, for Point of View, was all the rage.
It is still a very effective storytelling and video production technique. When used judiciously, it can put you into a “space” that words just can’t quite describe. 
Now however, POV is almost becoming the primary perspective from which we experience life. And yes, like the rest of the digital, social world – it could be described as highly narcissistic when considering a film maker’s choice for a visual narrative style.
The GoPro was a groundbreaking tool in this space. I have one, and strap it to the action any time I can. It can really provide a cool perspective that the detached, observational camera just can not.
But is it objective? Of course not. Is it journalism? That’s a good academic argument.
Is it really cool? Absolutely.
Now, enter Google Glass. It’s the GoPro with Siri in a James Bond package. It is also certainly where we are heading with all computer technology – voice activated, heads up, eye-gaze-aware, fully linked with other media and publishing platforms.
The first version will be as clunky as the IBM 700, but I have no doubt our grand kids will be walking around with a POV camera, the Internet, their phone, their music, their contacts, their schedule and GPS enabled geo enhancement – all packaged up in a pair of HUD eyeglasses.
We’ll be like Apache helicopter pilots targeting goods and services with a constant communications link to our social media.
