Interesting that, in the demo video, he "shares to his circles" rather than to a specific circle. Even in the Google+ future, it's easier to share with everyone than to segment everyone endlessly.
Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses
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#42That's a pretty neat concept video, but of course it's more than likely just a well produced concept video. Hopefully the real thing can live up to it. One thing I did think about after seeing the concept photos they have on the Google+ page ( https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts ) and in this NYT article, what about us poor people not gifted with 20/20 vision? But again they are probably just concept…
From the article:
There are reportedly dozens of other shapes and variations of the glasses in the works, some of which can sit over a person’s normal eyeglasses.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
What scares me is there is next to no choice on buying these, particularly if they are fast. There is an extreme advantage to people having easy access to information as it is presented in the video. Moreso than smartphones, it is a game changer.
Next to no choice? You're saying people will just all want this by default? I think most people will want to try this, myself included. But personally I draw the line here and I think many others will. I would never want to own a pair. This will be a niche product for those people who already use Bluetooth headsets, who are a minority.
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." ;)
http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because you don't ship when it still kills people. Google launches stuff in betas all the time (arguably too much and for too long), but I'm glad they're not out there letting anyone test self driving cars or augmented reality contacts. Apple's difference isn't that they iterate, it's that they don't talk about their new stuff until it ships.
The automated car has driven over 200,000 miles and has never once been in an accident. I don't know many humans that can live up to that.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/09/google-automated-cars/
Says that they do have the occasional human intervention. So even if it has never been in an accident up to that point there had only been 7 cars that had driven 1,000 miles without any human intervention.
You'd have to have a lot more data (such as a much higher number of miles logged without human intervention and 'all weather' exposure) before you could make such a grand claim.
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#45Looks like a great way to increase pedestrian fatalities.
Not if you also wear a Google self-driving beanie.
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#46Interesting that that the intro video also seems to be a subtle demonstration of new natural language commands. Kind of a clever way of minimizing "Siri" by packaging it into something much bigger. I'm curious how some of the actions are initiated - the video implies that visual recognition/location awareness/voice commands initiate the search, but I wonder if a button is also pressed.
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#47Why would the largest advertising company in the world want to place a screen between my eyeballs and reality?
Also, in the concept video he goes into a physical book store and selects a physical book and buys it. Surely, his Googgles would just scan the book tell him how much cheaper it was in the Google Store... Rather amused that when meeting a friend he spent time checking in to the location rather than talking to the dude. But these could be useful in situations where you don't have your hands free to hold a smartphone.…
> And skiers/snowborders would enjoy them for other information (How many Gs am I pulling in this turn? How fast am I descending? Where am I?)
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#48Youtube promo of how it might work (is this for real or just a concept? looks too good to be true) http://youtu.be/9c6W4CCU9M4
Off topic but I'm a little disappointed in their choice of the Strand. Alabaster Bookshop is right around the corner and has loads of stuff you wouldn't find at a Barnes & Noble.
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#49I could name you dozen of IT companies that unveiled concept for a product that's basically same as this.
The only and real question is - can Google pull it off?
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#50Looking forward to hacking on these. Hopefully they can redesign them to not look like Geordi from Star Trek.