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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 EwanG »

hswolff wrote: post #25

>“We’re sharing this information now because we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input,” the three employees wrote. “Please follow along as we share some of our ideas and stories. We’d love to hear yours, too. What would you like to see from Project Glass?” Why would you ask that? This type of product is so different from what's available on the market that I doubt the Project Glass team woul…

Interesting timing. I wrote the following yesterday afternoon before they published, and yet I seem to be answering their question:

http://a1.blogspot.com/2012/04/first-app-i-want-from-new-goo...

So guess they might get a FEW good ideas :-)

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by 2muchcoffeeman »

moe wrote: post #234
2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #207

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That still sounds silly. If you have the muscle of Google, wouldn't you get the legal ball rolling first, so that when your car is ready, you can sell immediately? Does a driverless car even count as basic research that they can spin off into a consumer product?

I think you're simplifying a little. A driverless car is not just another car. It's not a fancy smartphone. It's a paradigm shift that will reshape society and erase tens of thousands of jobs in a relatively short timeframe. And it's one of the rare cases where you can actually predict and quantify these consequences with relatively good accuracy. I'd assume quite a few parties (read: all of them) will want to have a…

The challenges in getting a driverless car to market will take years to over come. lsiebert replied that a few states are already thinking about this. We'll see how that turns out.

In the mean time, isn't it prudent to have intermediate products? Products to help people get used to the idea of driverless vehicles? Products to give them experience on how to rollout their bigger vision?

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Post by throwawaay »

jrockway wrote: post #215
marshallp wrote: post #192

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Google has a competitive edge in search because of it's data. All their other so-called successes are based directly off that (either in user share or because they have the big bucks to bankroll it). Take a look at other tech companies, they've created fortunes based on almost nothing * apple, consumer electronics that anyone could do * amazon, selling stuff online that anyone could do * oracle, selling databases whe…

Another example of business cluelessness, they're not flexing their patent muscles. It's worth noting that Google's prospectus [1] as filed with the SEC says that Google will always pursue long-term opportunities even if they hurt Google in the short term. Patents are an example here; Google could sue all of its "competitors" out of existence today, but would that really benefit Google in the long term? Would you wor…

Remember Communicating with Care?

You might want to go review that. Or just stop posting so much about Google altogether.

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by mcantelon »

marshallp wrote: post #192
jokermatt999 wrote: post #176

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> That's the problem with the google boys, they're a one hit wonder. You don't consider GMail, their dominance in ads, Android's ubiquity, the YouTube acquisition, etc as successes? Because all of those seem to have improved vastly since Google took control of them.

Google has a competitive edge in search because of it's data. All their other so-called successes are based directly off that (either in user share or because they have the big bucks to bankroll it). Take a look at other tech companies, they've created fortunes based on almost nothing * apple, consumer electronics that anyone could do * amazon, selling stuff online that anyone could do * oracle, selling databases whe…

>Another example of business cluelessness, they're not flexing their patent muscles.

A business with a basic sense of decency... imagine that.

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Post by jrockway »

throwawaay wrote: post #254
jrockway wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another example of business cluelessness, they're not flexing their patent muscles. It's worth noting that Google's prospectus [1] as filed with the SEC says that Google will always pursue long-term opportunities even if they hurt Google in the short term. Patents are an example here; Google could sue all of its "competitors" out of existence today, but would that really benefit Google in the long term? Would you wor…

Remember Communicating with Care? You might want to go review that. Or just stop posting so much about Google altogether.

So you're saying it's careless to respond to comments on the Internet?

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Post by pmb »

marshray wrote: post #250
moe wrote: post #244

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You're not seriously comparing the segway to driverless vehicles?

Nah, I'm just comparing that bit of hyperbole. Like the "paradigm shift" that was to be the Segway, what problem does this solve exactly?

40,000 deaths annually due to driver error

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Post by dsl »

marshray wrote: post #245
dsl wrote: post #180

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Thanks to a number of wars and billions being pumped into the UAV market, the likes of Raytheon, Thales Optronics, FLIR Systems, ITT, BAE, IAI, and probably a hundred other companies have made self driving cars possible. Not Google. Even when I was working on autonomous vehicles 10+ years ago, the entire setup was basically a "solved problem" minus environmental sensing accurate and reliable enough to be put in the c…

Could your "solved problem" vehicles reliably tell the difference between a kid running into the street and a empty garbage bag blown in the wind?

If you designed the system, would you handle them any differently?

A buddy of mine, when he was a kid, used to tie toilet paper across the road at windshield height then hide in the bushes. A car would come along at ~30 mph, see it, then come to a screeching halt. Some would get out and tear it down, some would stomp the gas. Point is, every human stopped for a single strand of toilet paper blocking the road.

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Post by toomuchtodo »

ConstantineXVI wrote: post #249
marshray wrote: post #242

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ISTR people saying that about the Segway.

Driverless cars would more or less kill an entire job category overnight. Who wouldn't want a truck driver that doesn't make wrong turns, doesn't get distracted, forget to gas up, doesn't need to sleep, eat, or be paid (as much)?

Don't forget: Offloading almost all freight traffic that can't be done by rail to automated vehicles between 1-6am daily.

Airplanes fly constantly, because each second they're on the ground is a second they're not paying for their capital cost. Ever see how barren a 6 lane highway is at 3am in the morning on a weeknight?

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