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Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by Andrex »

mtgx wrote: post #66
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…

Yeah, Facebook and Twitter integration are not going to happen.

If it's anything like Android, which seems likely, then the ball is in their court.

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by njharman »

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…

> A sheet of anything, however transparent, centimetres away from your eye won't help you see something a hundred meters away.

My 20/600 vision and prescription glasses tend to disagree. See also, people throughout history FUDing new technology.

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by njharman »

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.

The primary use case of the Google Glasses is an always on advertising platform.

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by EthanHeilman »

mtgx wrote: post #68
lovamova wrote: post #46

Turning people into walking video surveillance systems since 2013. I'll try to avoid people wearing these glasses.

They could prove useful against cops abusing the law. Cops are going to use this sort of tech very soon anyway. Might as well fight back with your own.

The word for that is souveillance, surveillance from below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by zoba »

mtgx wrote: post #66
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…

Yeah, Facebook and Twitter integration are not going to happen.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Do you have some source to back up why that is "not going to happen"?

I can't imagine a scenario where Google wouldn't allow it to link to Twitter and Facebook, especially considering that Google is opening it up to developers.

Apple has already filed patents for a "Glass" type product and were Google to disallow developers to link to Facebook and Twitter, Apple would only have to allow this sort of integration...and then Apple has a strong selling point over Google.

I'm trying to think of any successful consumer product that blocks this sort of integration and am not coming up with any. Xbox, iPhone, geez even my dad's blu-ray player and people's automobiles (Ford Sync) integrate with Facebook!

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by sambomillo »

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…

Is there an augmented reality aspect to these? I got the impression that there was not, that it was simply a little area in the corner of your field of vision where it would display things.

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by Sunlis »

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…

> Have an alternate reality game with digital objects people can place/write on. Only Glass users can see the teddy bear in the corner, and only google glass users can see the giant graffiti wall where people sign their name.

There's a small team at Google working on a game that uses the real world as its map, Ingress[0]. I haven't been able to get access to it yet (typical Google closed beta), but from what I've seen of the game it would fit right in with Glass.

[0] http://www.ingress.com/

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by tocomment »

I'd love to see this app for it. I call it real life screen sharing!

Take any task you need to do;

say change a tire. You post a request to the internet for help. Someone agrees to help you. Then they see on their screen what you are seeing through the glasses. They can talk you through doing whatever you need to do, and perhaps even point to places on the screen and it will highlight that area in your view screen.

Think how many repairs we're reasonably competent to make if only an expert would look over your shoulder and you could ask questions!

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