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Re: Google Glass

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Post by dlanouette »

artursapek wrote: post #150

I am seriously concerned about this. I was in a long-distance relationship this summer. We would take turns visiting each other in our respective cities roughly 5 hours apart. It was a pretty long journey for a weekend - it would sometimes take 10 hours one way since you had to go through New York. Of course, it was worth it. But whenever we would go on a walk, or I'd take her out to dinner, I got as much face time w…

> using the same shitty Blackberry for 6 years now.

> I'm 20 now.

So, you had a Blackberry when you were 14? Your post has a luddite like quality to it, but this fact is quite the opposite.

Re: Google Glass

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Post by ttrt »

roc wrote: post #152
Andrenid wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I read somewhere (but can't find it now) that they're teaming up with sunglass and glasses companies to integrate it into their products, and that this is just the "base" model direct from Google, aimed more at geeks/early adopters.

And once it's integrated into your normal glasses tastefully, they just have that pesky social problem of having a voice-control-only gadget in public.

"Touch-computing is a fad, according to Newell. The future is in things like wrist-bands with highly-accurate motion controls."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/12/10/why-valves-s...

Re: Google Glass

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Post by carlob »

The fact that you could potentially stream whatever you see all the time makes me wonder if there will be places where it will be compulsory to switch them off, probably you won't be able to bring one at a concerts or sports event because of copyright.

And I guess it's a safe bet that you wouldn't want to take it with you on a night out, because there's always someone who'd rather not be filmed while being underage drinking, or on a date with their lover or doing drugs. Just think of the implications of being in a bar knowing that potentially a few people in said bar might be filming everything that's happening.

Re: Google Glass

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Post by Erwin »

faxilux wrote: post #256
ansible wrote: post #84

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Re: Datecasting This was addressed in the short film called Sight: http://vimeo.com/m/46304267 It was really well done for a small budget.

I love it, thanks for sharing. I especially enjoyed the real life fruit ninja part, if technology can be used to make mundane tasks more exciting I'm all for it.

I liked the dig on the perversion of gamification here.

"Achievements" have become very popular in games -- you might have fully complete a game level, but there's a bonus if you use a specific weapon or not kill people or not do something odd while doing so. So sometimes people spend inordinate amount of time in games that they've already completed, doing something over and over again to gain a perfect "score".

Here he cuts the cucumber imperfectly, not getting the perfect score and so he discards it. The date is also heavily scored, and the augmented reality wall seems to have plenty of other perfect achievements. He longer cares as much about the end result, but just about the achievement badge (perhaps to be flaunted to others).

Re: Google Glass

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Post by jff »

leephillips wrote: post #215
gnufied wrote: post #31

I have always wondered where are following hardware hidden in this design: 1. CPU and really the whole shebang. where is it? 2. It probably requires some sort of 3G/4G card and connection? Where the heck does it fit? 3. Batteries! Where are those? Are they solar charged? I understand people who are saying, it is not that much of a big deal just miniaturization of existing technologies but if all above 3 fit in that g…

Notice how you never see the wearer's whole torso in the promotional videos? All that stuff is in a 12 lb. backpack. It's color coordinated with the glasses.

Don't be a damn idiot. It's in a housing on the same side as the display, it kind of balances at your ear. I've worn a pair, I didn't have to put on some sort of massive backpack.

Re: Google Glass

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Post by [deleted] »

eknkc wrote: post #348
vibragiel wrote: post #311

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It's also exactly how they started with Android.

I'm not trying to be a fanboy here but as far as I can tell, Android borrowed a lot from iOS until it matured enough. Only after, they started experimenting, added great stuff on it and diverged for better. What role model does Glass have now?

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Re: Google Glass

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Post by sirclueless »

AUmrysh wrote: post #213
Erwin wrote: post #77

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…

I think the people concerned about 'always on' recording are missing the fact that one could just put a piece of masking tape over the camera.

The concern isn't that you are generating too much video -- you can always turn it off.

The concern is that everyone else all around you is generating too much information about everything they see. Think "The Dark Knight," the scene where Batman uses a whole bunch of passive cellphones to map out the city and the people in it. The NSA is already spending enormous amounts of money building giant data warehouses, and there have been some startlingly accurate demos of live facial recognition software. It's really not that farfetched, technologically.

Re: Google Glass

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Post by leephillips »

jff wrote: post #376
leephillips wrote: post #215

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Notice how you never see the wearer's whole torso in the promotional videos? All that stuff is in a 12 lb. backpack. It's color coordinated with the glasses.

Don't be a damn idiot. It's in a housing on the same side as the display, it kind of balances at your ear. I've worn a pair, I didn't have to put on some sort of massive backpack.

You're lucky. They've made a lot of progress. The beta model really made my lumbago flare up.

Re: Google Glass

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Post by jff »

jcromartie wrote: post #135

How does Google Glass help me fly a plane or do the trapeze? It doesn't of course. But they're showing me that using Google Glass feels like flying a plane or doing the trapeze. "How it feels" is not how it feels, it's other peoples' experiences. And I feel like it implies that you will have these great experiences if you use Google Glass. How does Google Glass add anything by displaying weather or recording a weird…

Lots of people have had the mistaken impressin that Glass magically overlays your entire vision--see all the breathless posts about ad banners being automatically rendered onto your cereal boxes. Seems to me that the video is about your view with Glass, how it's just a little screen in the corner, and what the UI looks like.
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