Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses • Hacker News Board

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by marcamillion » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 12:35 PM UTC

I really hope this sees the light of day and they are able to execute on it the way it looks in the video. Unfortunately, I have seen too many cool videos come from research labs or highly paid scientists/engineers at tech companies and nothing ever comes of it - or rather, in a meaningful way to me anyway. Microsoft surface anyone?

One of the things I LOVE about Apple is...if they released this video, I know I could expect to see it on store shelves in a month or at most a few months. Sometimes even as little as a few weeks.

That's awesome.

With this....only God He knows when we will ever see this.

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by mattdeboard » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 12:53 PM UTC

throwawaay wrote: post #268

jrockway wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'm saying that speculating about what Google can and cannot do to competitors in public is definitely not Communicating with Care, and that your comment history is littered with borderline cases like this one. Just stop. Further, you don't actually need to respond to every stupid, incorrect statement on the Internet that's written about your new employer. Really.

If they're borderline report him and let whomever take care of it. Best case scenario here is that you're not only a hypocrite but one who feels the need to say things he considers so bombastic it requires hiding behind a throwaway account.

By the way, his email address is in his profile. If you were really that concerned about "communicating with care" you could be a professional about it and mention it privately to him. Of course, that wouldn't satisfy your need to respond to every stupid, incorrect statement he makes about his new employer, really.

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by ConstantineXVI » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 1:19 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #259

ConstantineXVI wrote: post #249

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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?

Exactly, robots aren't constrained by a need for sleep; and is likely more aware of it's surroundings vs. a human facing the same conditions. A driverless car can "see" in infrared or radar just as easily as it can visible light (potentially better).

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by bmj1 » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 1:23 PM UTC

If they opened up an API for this you could have a lot of fun: - P2P payments - Add as friend on FB/follow on Twitter - See friends in common/shared network

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by moe » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 1:26 PM UTC

pmb wrote: post #257

marshray wrote: post #250

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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

Also: Cost of human labor in logistics. Driverless cars don't need sleep.

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by RobAtticus » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 1:48 PM UTC

base698 wrote: post #261

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.

Android was an acquisition....

Yes, 7 years ago, before they were well known. It seems a bit disingenuous to not give Google credit for Android as a success. They didn't initially create it, but they did shape it into a success.

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by johnpowell » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 2:12 PM UTC

DasIch wrote: post #6

Augmented reality glasses, self-driving cars... Google is becoming a really exciting and interesting company. It will be interesting to see how Apple will react to this given that they are the ones claiming to revolutionize consumer technology every couple of years.

I'm a bit curious what self driving cars add. I live in a bike friendly town and am 36 and never had my license. Do people want to really to pass out on the drive home?

What about liability? Say the google car goes on sale and gets in a ton of wrecks due to a software bug. Who is liable? The owner of the car or Google?

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by agumonkey » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 2:22 PM UTC

ramy_d wrote: post #73

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…

this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Coil make dennu coil happen.

completely off topic but you put Mitsuo Iso's name in my internal map of the universe and now an entire span of dark fog is gone.

thanks

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by hexagonc » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 2:47 PM UTC

dsl wrote: post #180

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.

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…

"The difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there is no difference but in practice, there is" -- numerous possible sources

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by aapl » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 3:42 PM UTC

windsurfer wrote: post #92

heyrhett wrote: post #5

Why would the largest advertising company in the world want to place a screen between my eyeballs and reality?

I'm imagining a remix of the featured video to look something like this: * Guy wakes up, puts on glasses. They immediately tell him what brand of breakfast he should be eating today. * When he looks at the window to see the weather, buildings and places are censored, and advertisements are replaced with google ads, yet he doesn't care * During the text message with his friend, after he says "Strand books", Google sug…

Maybe something like this:

https://vimeo.com/8569187

A less cynical version:

https://vimeo.com/14294054