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Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by danso »

netcraft wrote: post #26
zoba wrote: post #23

I'm not entirely sure of the capabilities of Glass. For instance, battery life and an ability to persistently have the camera on and displaying an overlay for extended periods seems difficult. Some of the Glass ideas I like but haven't heard much discussion over: - Facial recognition with a little popup over people's heads with their name. Never forget someone's name - Link in with Facebook or your calendar to have p…

imagine mechanics using it to see an x-ray kind of view of a vehicle or engine. location/time awareness could do a "checklist" of sorts when you are leaving your house to make sure you pick up all of the items from the front table. a lego app that helps you find that piece in the big bin of pieces

These are wearable computers, not glasses with visual powers that are not yet feasible to implement, period (I'm guessing there would be a few technical issues with head-mounted-x-ray machines).

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by mikedmiked »

taligent wrote: post #9
hakaaaak wrote: post #5

This project scares the hell out of me. This is going to cause eye problems and distract people and cause injury and accidents.

Right now the primary use case of the Google Glasses is as an always-on video camera. Now most people (including myself) don't appreciate being filmed without permission and there are plenty of situations where people could be filmed committing illegal acts. So I can guarantee you that injury is going to occur at some point and especially in the US a not insignificant chance of being shot.

Is it possible to stream from the glasses?

If so then a criminal would be deincentivised to murder a witness wearing the glasses - as everything they have seen is already online.

Of course it would take a few years of people getting shot by criminals who don't understand the technology before we get to that stage...

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by danso »

ElliotH wrote: post #15
theallan wrote: post #3

Do we know what the augmented reality part will look like from the user's perspective? The skydive jump looks like it is basically a head mounted video camera - and while there is no doubting that was technologically very impressive, full video feeds in that wireless environment, I've not seen what it looks like for the person actually using the glasses.

They did the concept video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4 I guess that's the long term goal. I haven't seen any real-world previews yet. I guess that's what is most exciting about the hardware going to developers soon, we should see some images.

Re-watching the promo video, I'm surprised at how basic it seems. For example, when the user had picked up the book about ukeleles, I was expecting a bunch of comparable price listings to pop-up, or at least the book's ISBD info.

And face recognition is an obvious use, but I think people would've freaked out if the promo showed how you could look at people and ascertain their identity.

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by swalsh »

danso wrote: post #14
hakaaaak wrote: post #5

This project scares the hell out of me. This is going to cause eye problems and distract people and cause injury and accidents.

I think the biggest scare that will happen is when geocoded data of the value-added type is overlayed upon your view. Imagine these scenarios: * The gun owners address map re-oriented so that when you look at a house, you see a "gun" symbol over it * Property value over each home (available from county assessor) * When Facebook makes another privacy-opening-oops and people with their wall/statuses set to semi-public…

> Property value over each home (available from county assessor)

As someone looking for a home, in sometimes unfamiliar neighborhoods... this is a great idea! Zillow has something similar in their iphone app, but this would make it a lot more convenient.

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by alastair »

zeynalov wrote: post #20

I came up with an idea. It's Google Glass app+tool which controlled with this app. When Google glasses will come out there will be more people with app idea. So, should I patent my idea?

What you just described is basically why the patent system sucks - if your idea is so obvious that other people will think of it, it's not worthy of one. Your motive for getting the patent is to block other people from doing something obvious.

Not a personal attack, just a passing comment.

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by freehunter »

danso wrote: post #31
netcraft wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

imagine mechanics using it to see an x-ray kind of view of a vehicle or engine. location/time awareness could do a "checklist" of sorts when you are leaving your house to make sure you pick up all of the items from the front table. a lego app that helps you find that piece in the big bin of pieces

These are wearable computers, not glasses with visual powers that are not yet feasible to implement, period (I'm guessing there would be a few technical issues with head-mounted-x-ray machines).

By x-ray view, I figured he meant it would download the schematic of the engine and display that overlaid on what you're seeing.

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by Shorel »

zoba wrote: post #23

I'm not entirely sure of the capabilities of Glass. For instance, battery life and an ability to persistently have the camera on and displaying an overlay for extended periods seems difficult. Some of the Glass ideas I like but haven't heard much discussion over: - Facial recognition with a little popup over people's heads with their name. Never forget someone's name - Link in with Facebook or your calendar to have p…

I think you would be OK carrying a battery on your belt.

We all like to be a bit like Batman aren't we?

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by Cogito »

lloeki wrote: post #25
moistgorilla wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously? How would this be more dangerous than current cellphones? At least with glass you can keep your eyes facing the road while gathering information and I'm pretty sure you don't need your hand to answer phone calls either (tilt your head.). Also, they wouldn't be releasing a product that caused eye problems.

> At least with glass you can keep your eyes facing the road A sheet of anything, however transparent, centimetres away from your eye won't help you see something a hundred meters away. You're concerned with alignment but focus matters even more. You usually don't notice the focus time because your eyes are doing it while moving (changing the alignment). HUDs work in planes and cars because they're far away enough to…

Just to make sure I'm not misunderstanding you, you're saying that having a display in front of your eyes would distract you from other things, for example the road?

Surely in cases where this is important you can simply turn off the display? A piece of glass or plastic isn't going to interrupt anyone's vision, as we can see by everyone who wears glasses when driving.

Furthermore, I don't agree that any loss of optical clarity is "way" more dangerous than perfect vision, nor that something being displayed on the glasses need be perceptible at all.

For example, if a glasses wearing driver were to swap out their moderately rimmed glasses for fancy clear-framed glasses, their safety would be inpercievably improved. At times, it is easy to not notice dust on your glasses.

Now, there is certainly potential for far more obstruction to be had, and the case for changing focus is surely one to be considered, however the claim that it is necessarily "way safer" to not have anything present close to your eye that is not completely transparent is incorrect. As a simple counterexample, the glasses could change tint or brightness according to driving conditions, improving the vision of the driver. Drivers already do this by putting sunglasses on, these glasses could do it automatically.

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by brk »

freehunter wrote: post #37
danso wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are wearable computers, not glasses with visual powers that are not yet feasible to implement, period (I'm guessing there would be a few technical issues with head-mounted-x-ray machines).

By x-ray view, I figured he meant it would download the schematic of the engine and display that overlaid on what you're seeing.

The average internal combustion engine is really pretty simple. It is no more complex to a mechanic than the innards of a "powerful" desktop PC are to most computer people.

All the glasses could do is display a layout of a known engine, they can't see inside it to highlight a problem. So, it seems like they would be more of an overall nuisance than anything else in that scenario.

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