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Re: Glass

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Post by tmzt »

gwillen wrote: post #18
rdl wrote: post #12

I'd personally settle for a voice-output-only Glass (maybe with chording for text input to avoid the "talking to yourself crazy person" problem, and with a camera/microphone built in for ambient data gathering). Hardware we could have built for the last 10 years, and really unobtrusive. You'd need better UI and software than with video, since information needs to be more closely tailored for a lower bitrate channel,…

You don't even _need_ Glass for that -- just an unobtrusive bluetooth headset, and a good backend.

Yeah something like the Pebble watch but as a Bluetooth-style headset. (Come on Kickstarter community)

It should support something more reliable than SCO and an input touchpad like Glass. It would also make sense to have some of the initial NLP processing in the device, or even a full ARM processor like the Glass running arbitrary applications.

You would be able to make calls through an offloaded cell phone using a more advanced profile than SCO HS.

If I could remove the device and place it on the car visor to use as a noise-cancelling speakerphone like the Motorola Bluetooth unit I have, even better.

Re: Glass

#62

Post by pazimzadeh »

nbouscal wrote: post #31
kposehn wrote: post #30

This is a perfect example of a primary difference between apple and google. Apple makes sure that before you ever use it that almost every single thing akin to what Dustin pointed out is a non-issue. Google gives you an alpha/beta product and wants you to find the flaws for them, and maybe help shape it. Using bread as an analogy, Apple gives you a beautiful tasty loaf ready to eat; Google gives you some dough and te…

A refinement of that analogy is that Apple gives you one particular type of bread, and you damn well better like exactly that kind of bread. This is mostly okay, because it is really tasty, but if you happen to want sourdough instead, too bad.

Actually, sourdough is the only bread worth eating.

Re: Glass

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Post by jordanthoms »

snogglethorpe wrote: post #57
djloche wrote: post #41

>"Google Now is integrated, and it makes a lot of sense with Glass. The more intelligent Now becomes, the less actual interaction you need to do with the interface." This is the "big thing". The battery issues will be a minor footnote if the majority of your use of Glass is it providing information as you need it, rather than you fussing with it trying to get the information you need. Google Now allows for this to ha…

> Google Now allows for this to happen I've never quite figured out what's up with Google Now—I have it on my phone, and I hear it's supposed to be some sort of (semi) intelligent assistant type of thing, but so far it doesn't seem to do very much at all, much less anything "intelligent." On my phone, it gives me weather info every day (which is nice), and dutifully tells me how to get to work in the morning and retu…

You might need to signup for the Gmail search field trial to get some of that stuff: https://www.google.com/experimental/gmailfieldtrial/ , you also need search history on for it to learn from your searches.

Re: Glass

#64

Post by tmzt »

mtgx wrote: post #46

Google needs to make the camera very good in low-light and they desperately need to add Optical Image Stabilization, like we've seen in some of the latest phones. Watching some of the Glass videos makes me sick, because people move their heads even more than they move their hands when recording with their phones. So OIS is that much more important . Even if it makes the product cost $50 more at retail, I think it's w…

Or BIG.little which would allow selecting the ARM processor core to use based on the current needs, using the more power efficient chip when passive.

Re: Glass

#65

Post by PuercoPop »

enraged_camel wrote: post #53
nsns wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And yet, a whole series of such "unintuitive" devices is what led to the iPad.

And note that Apple was not the inventor of any of those unintuitive devices. Which makes one wonder who will ultimately make the "iPad of Glass." :)

Yep, the newton is nothing of the sort :-P

Re: Glass

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Post by Resident_Geek »

snogglethorpe wrote: post #57
djloche wrote: post #41

>"Google Now is integrated, and it makes a lot of sense with Glass. The more intelligent Now becomes, the less actual interaction you need to do with the interface." This is the "big thing". The battery issues will be a minor footnote if the majority of your use of Glass is it providing information as you need it, rather than you fussing with it trying to get the information you need. Google Now allows for this to ha…

> Google Now allows for this to happen I've never quite figured out what's up with Google Now—I have it on my phone, and I hear it's supposed to be some sort of (semi) intelligent assistant type of thing, but so far it doesn't seem to do very much at all, much less anything "intelligent." On my phone, it gives me weather info every day (which is nice), and dutifully tells me how to get to work in the morning and retu…

Do you have multiple Google accounts? If you're signed in to one you don't use for things, that will cripple Now, because it won't have all the data it needs to do things. Same problem if you do all your searching and Youtube watching and whatnot while signed out.

Re: Glass

#67

Post by saulrh »

pooriaazimi wrote: post #48

> 15. If Glass is “on” and anyone near you says “OK Glass,” they can control what you see, take a picture, etc. That's what I thought, though oddly, I haven't seen this obvious fact mentioned anywhere else. It can be fixed in future I'm sure - but in the short term it might cause some problems: "OK Glass. Tweet 'I'm an idiot'." - someone shouting in the subway

If it turns out to be a big enough problem, Google could probably add a way for people to run Glass off of a throat mike [0], simultaneously solving the "crazy bluetooth headset person" and "hostile takeover" problems.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laryngophone

Re: Glass

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Post by dmoy »

nsns wrote: post #45
raldi wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think ice cream shops might make for a better analogy. Apple is like one that makes the absolute best vanilla and chocolate ice creams you've ever had. And maybe in the back, they're working on an amazing mint-chocolate-chip, but they haven't quite found just the right supplier of peppermint extract, and until then, nobody gets to try it. Google is like that crazy experimental ice cream shop that has all sorts of w…

And at times they would, out of the blue, cancel a taste you really like.

Just like my ice cream shop :(

Re: Glass

#69

Post by [deleted] »

jordanthoms wrote: post #63
snogglethorpe wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Google Now allows for this to happen I've never quite figured out what's up with Google Now—I have it on my phone, and I hear it's supposed to be some sort of (semi) intelligent assistant type of thing, but so far it doesn't seem to do very much at all, much less anything "intelligent." On my phone, it gives me weather info every day (which is nice), and dutifully tells me how to get to work in the morning and retu…

You might need to signup for the Gmail search field trial to get some of that stuff: https://www.google.com/experimental/gmailfieldtrial/ , you also need search history on for it to learn from your searches.

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