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Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by JanezStupar »

siavosh wrote: post #148
JanezStupar wrote: post #130

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This is nothing like Segway. Segway users are bound to be seen as too lazy to walk. But imagine having these glasses on while performing a complicated technical procedure providing you with checklist of activities, enabling you to take pictures as you go. Or giving a lecture/presentation without having to turn away from the public to peek at your presentation/notes. Plus in comparison to Segway and bluetooth headphon…

I think that's a valid point especially for certain tasks, but it finally hit me what's slightly jarring about the glasses in the scenario the video portrayed. It creates a very clear seperation between you and the person you're facing, a complete loss of intimacy and focus which right now is the last refuge for non distracted human contact. It's analgous (roughly) to having someone talking to you while looking at th…

My god. I am really curious what is your opinion of sunglasses?

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by jonknee »

beatle wrote: post #157
jrockway wrote: post #112

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But what has Google ever engineered, at least physically, that has set your expectations so high? Driverless cars.

Driverless cars. Google Glasses. The CEO's job is to allocate resources to initiatives that will make the company money. NOT to fool around with worthless projects like driver less cars and glasses that are just complete waste of money and resources. Shouldn't they be spending time and money fixing Android and the Android market place?

The car business is fantastically large. If Google can license its technology to power the next stage of personal transportation, the revenue received will dwarf its 30% vig on selling Angry Birds.

Either way, it's not that they are taking money and resources from Android and dedicating them to cars and augmented reality. I don't think more money and more people is what Android needs.

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by icandoitbetter »

beatle wrote: post #157
jrockway wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But what has Google ever engineered, at least physically, that has set your expectations so high? Driverless cars.

Driverless cars. Google Glasses. The CEO's job is to allocate resources to initiatives that will make the company money. NOT to fool around with worthless projects like driver less cars and glasses that are just complete waste of money and resources. Shouldn't they be spending time and money fixing Android and the Android market place?

Can't tell if you're joking.

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by Achshar »

cake wrote: post #136
jgrahamc wrote: post #19

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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.…

Rather amused that when meeting a friend he spent time checking in to the location rather than talking to the dude. I'm rather creeped out by this project. In almost all the situations presented he could have asked a freaking human instead of his glasses : - bookstore : ask the bookseller that's what he's here for, he may even give you better recommendations - maps in the street : ask somone - where is your friend ?…

It's probably good for bookstore scenario but for asking people about maps requires that there must be (helpful) people around with good knowledge of the area. And for friend's location, calling requires input from someone else (which makes it slower, costlier, and imagine getting call from your friend asking for your location every x minutes [you can only do that so many times without "crossing the line"])

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by psb217 »

jonknee wrote: post #14
joejohnson wrote: post #10

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Real artists ship. I'm very excited about all of Google's cool new projects, but they have a history of shooting themselves in the foot. If these technologies are so far along, why not build a consumer version and get people to pay to be testers?! Then iterate on the concept and keep improving it through successive versions. But that's Apple's game.

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.

As to your first sentence, much of the most advanced technology in existence did not ship until it was sufficiently effective at causing or, at least, facilitating death.

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by rudyfink »

JshWright wrote: post #75

Here's an example of how I would love to be able to use (even a very basic version of) this product: I'm an EMT (and Paramedic student). There are plenty of scenarios in emergency medicine where you're following a time based algorithm. In the example of a cardiac arrest patient, everything revolves around two minutes cycles of CPR, medications, and (if applicable) defibrillation. Even something as simple as a clock t…

I am in complete agreement that augmented reality ("AR") has the potential to be a game changer for physical tasks. It is the kind of thing that has the potential to raise the effective IQ of the user quite substantially.

The military has spent a fair amount of time working on something similar to what you describe for vehicular repair. I think you might find the videos off of this page ( http://graphics.cs.columbia.edu/projects/armar/index.htm ) and this page ( http://singularityhub.com/2010/01/11/augmented-reality-to-he... ) very suggestive of the kind of thing you are looking for in medicine.

I haven't seen the same level of thing yet for medical systems, though it may exist. I have seen some work on using AR for visualization of imaging (e.g. map the CT scan onto the body I am looking at). I think the sort of direct procedural guidance you describe is probably harder for people than it is for vehicular repair. At the core that is probably just a computational problem though.

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Post by xxbondsxx »

danilocampos wrote: post #146
jrockway wrote: post #112

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But what has Google ever engineered, at least physically, that has set your expectations so high? Driverless cars.

Quite so! I'm very excited to head on down to my Google dealership and pick one-- Oh. There's a huge difference between a research project and a shipping product. I'm most excited for this development as well, but I'll be withholding my acclaim until they actually deliver it. So far, all of this stuff is an elaborate Montessori school science project.

If you've followed the DARPA Grand Challenge since 2004, you'll realize that it's _not_ just a school science project. The Google car is going to be ready for market far before the legal, insurance, and other non-technical issues are sorted out.

In other words, they could ship "now" if they weren't doing such a revolutionary product. If you make a trivially incremental improvement on an already-existing product (iPad3) then that's a lot easier

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Post by marshallp »

danilocampos wrote: post #146
jrockway wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But what has Google ever engineered, at least physically, that has set your expectations so high? Driverless cars.

Quite so! I'm very excited to head on down to my Google dealership and pick one-- Oh. There's a huge difference between a research project and a shipping product. I'm most excited for this development as well, but I'll be withholding my acclaim until they actually deliver it. So far, all of this stuff is an elaborate Montessori school science project.

That's the problem with the google boys, they're a one hit wonder. They lucked out with search, a research project, and now they think they know what they're doing. They need to take their bozo hat off and realize they need to partner with the rest of the world to get stuff done. Apple's success is not just due to Job's taste but also extensive ties with chinese manufacturers and real focused hard work. A "secret" X lair in the second most expensive city in america ain't gonna cut it.

That's they problem with google, they still haven't figured out they're a one hit wonder, real business is much harder edged than the "playtime" for kids that goes on there.

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by xxbondsxx »

robbiemitchell wrote: post #41

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.

They've changed this on the main site as well. They know most people are just blasting everything, so that's the default now (at least for me).
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