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Imagine how much quicker assembling IKEA furniture would become, no more downing tools and picking up the manual, the manual would update with you real time!
Also with tutorials on learning and making things like circuits, knitting, cooking etc. They should have highlighted use cases like this.
The recorded videos' have a strange voyeuristic feel, probably due to the POV being so close to the wearer's eyes. That you can use the glasses do do a hangout in real time and broadcast seems novel though. There's no shortage of sci-fi stories dealing with this sort of always-on recording. "Strange Days", "Black Mirror (#3)". I wonder about the legality of this product, if it becomes inconspicuous. Some product idea…
Or fixcast? Have a mechanic walk you through fixing your car, a plumber walk you through fixing your sink.
- Code tutorials
- Remote business consultants advising you on handling various business problems
- College students (or anyone with specific domain knowledge really) could dial into a web based market for advice/mentoring, and charge by the minute. A really cool way to leverage your domain knowledge and get paid in your free time. It could be reputation based, tracked on how useful your advice was for people in the past.
The whole remote help/advice area could be HUUUGE.
Look at what businesses currently spend on consultants now.
Imagine anyone can get a consultant/advisor/mentor/subject matter expert, for any topic (DIY, personal life- e.g. dealing with depression, health issues- remote doctor in India, virtual assistant in your ear, fitness trainer, business coach), at at a fraction of the cost of what these guys charge today.
You could get mentored for any topic under the sun - would you like an expert violin prodigy teach your child to play the violin from Eastern Europe really cheap? What about a Russian chess master teaching you the game? Or a hangout with a poker celebrity telling you how to improve your mastery of poker? Dancing? Painting? Legal advice? Speaking with a native French speaker to learn the language? Chatting with Peter Norvig about AI?
The possibilities are endless. Getting expert advice used to be constrained by location, but if Google Glass becomes widespread, not anymore.
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http://econogirl.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/braces.jpg The metal line is reminiscent of a head brace, while the projector makes you look like cyborg escaped from a Halloween party. They will need a stunning amount of marketing and advertising for this to become socially acceptable. I guess it could be a little bit worse, I can see they were trying to go for sleek... I think the greater problem was that the actual us…
Sorry but honestly these examples are repulsive to me
I assume you're talking about things which give you a social edge. Unfortunately you will just have to deal with it as reality slowly attunes itself with science fiction.
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That would indeed be the most obvious way to go, it would also make the device more powerful down the road since the computing is done on a smartphone which only get faster and faster by the year.
I'd say the computing is done "in the cloud". Low power transmission to your phone, then to the google datacenter. It seems cool from a technology point, but I'm not sure I want to trust Google (and thereby the US Government) my life. Or am I doing that already by using Google Search and GMail?
Google Glass will be massively popular with the active crowd (kind of how the GoCam got its big break) - I would personally use it in place of recording videos with my phone! I would not wear it all the time though, that's ridiculous.
Also, whenever I do take pictures I really wanna take, I subconsciously take care of picture composition by moving my phone around a bit. In Glass, I'll be moving my face around?
I am really excited, but really does everyone wants Google to track your path everywhere you go, everything single stuff you're watching? :-/ I am assuming the glasses themselves have nearly no cpu capabilities, thus it must be mandatory to export any computation wirelessly toward Google servers, right?
I feel like the speedy proliferation of smartphones into the fabric of everyday life has answered your question with a resounding, "No one cares". The benefits of what essentially amounts to ESP (text, email, telephony) and fact-based omniscience (access to the internet, real time directions, weather, etc.) far outweigh any privacy concerns in the vast majority of people's minds. I have my reservations and concerns of course, but the mental empowerment is just too much to pass up.
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Sorry but honestly these examples are repulsive to me
Yes, the creep factor is very high with the facial and emotional recognition. Few people would trust a person with Glass if they knew the person might be using it as a tool to gain a social advantage.
"Is this guy recording me?"
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It would probably look nicer with actual lenses, even if the lenses are just clear glass for people who don't need corrective lenses. I imagine it'd also help if the design was symmetrical, rather than having a bulge on one side that reminds everybody else they're constantly being recorded. Of course, I also imagine the Glass design team tested those options, and decided to go with the current iteration for a reason.
Just my three cents - but I'd hate 'zero' lenses on Glass. My eyesight is just fine, and I find glasses to be huge hassle and generally annoying, having pieces of glass that just sit there without a reason would be very annoying.
Ok. So 100% voice-based. That makes sense. That's great. Except if you don't speak English as your primary language. I've tried Google's voice-recognition on my native language and the results have been closer to sad than lulz-worthy. Yes, I know English. Yes, I can both write and speak it fairly well. That's not the point: You won't believe how awkward a context-switch from "I'm talking to people" to "I'm talking to…
I'm thinking that once the promo videos are over and forgotten, the majority of the user input will be through a touch device linked by bluetooth. It just makes more sense to me from a practical standpoint.
I didn't realise how bad it looks. The premise looks awesome. The demo video... awesome. The way the product looks on someone's face... this isn't the finished product right? I think Google should look at designer glasses and outsource the design to someone who knows what they are doing.
Here are some images from "Fashion Week", when they had it looking as good as possible. https://www.google.com/search?q=google+glass+fashion+week