i can totally see myself using something like Glass while working, but in my private life i believe that a smartphone + maybe a smartwatch is more than enough.
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#72As someone who just got their Glass last night, I have a FEW conflicting points, although a lot of it is spot on. -I don't think the screen is not bright enough, and I haven't had the issue where you have to look at something dark to see it. -I also disagree about "dangerous while driving." In fact, I would argue quite the opposite. It's SO much safer than looking at your phone for directions. The fact that any infor…
How does it compare to a windshield mounted TomTom?
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#73> 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
Given that there's a bone conduction speaker, I rather assumed that Glass was going to pick up on bone-conducted vibrations to make sure the wearer is the one speaking.
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#74I don't know if there is a way for the person next to the person wearing a glass to tell whether the glass is on or off, but if there is no way then there has to be one which will take care of the security issues like recording a video, taking a picture etc while talking to a person and that person don't know about the same.
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#75As someone who just got their Glass last night, I have a FEW conflicting points, although a lot of it is spot on. -I don't think the screen is not bright enough, and I haven't had the issue where you have to look at something dark to see it. -I also disagree about "dangerous while driving." In fact, I would argue quite the opposite. It's SO much safer than looking at your phone for directions. The fact that any infor…
How does it compare to a windshield mounted TomTom?
I'd still argue less distracting. Taking my eyes off the road vs changing the focus point feels a lot different.
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#76Oddly enough, the thing that's disappointed me the most about Glass so far is that there's no real SDK for it that I can find. There's something called "Glassware" that lets you build views in HTML and throw them up on the screen, but that's it.
Am I just missing something? I suppose Google could be mirroring what Apple did with the first iPhone and letting the tech stack settle down before opening things up to third-party development.
(C'mon, who doesn't want to make a game where you turn your head to aim and say "pew pew pew" to fire?)
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#77Anyone want an unsolicited opinion? waits for everyone to leave I hope Google Glass is an experiment, because voice reco isn't particularly important outside of when you're driving. When I get tired of texting and consider voice reco, 2 things hit me (and others, I've done solid research on this) 1. Voice reco would be slightly better now that I'm tired of texting, but not much. 2. It is nowhere near socially accepta…
sitting at a table messing on a computer in your hand used to be socially unacceptable.
IT IS.
It is not about the thing in itself. It is about: "F*ck you, my computer is more interesting that you attitude"
With a tablet or big phone you could integrate everything into a social context. You could search something socially for the entire group to benefit. Show pictures for the entire group. Whatever.
Or you could look like a social retard that uses the computer to isolate herself.
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#78I spent an hour tonight debating someone on how the Oculus Rift is revolutionary while Glass is not. The first hand reviews of the Rift vs Glass are night and day. One is the future the other is meh.
See now if the Occulus had an HD camera and could overlay it's information what you're looking at whilst walking around, that would be pretty fucking cool.
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#79Dustin Curtis does not even own Glass, he is using a 'friends' item.
He just wants readership/attention/validation, hence the opinionated and slightly snarky blog post.
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#80I spent an hour tonight debating someone on how the Oculus Rift is revolutionary while Glass is not. The first hand reviews of the Rift vs Glass are night and day. One is the future the other is meh.
Both are not revolutionary, but evolutionary because both category products existed way long ago.
I remember watching members of the sailing world cup wearing glass equivalents like what, 10 years ago?
First Rift equivalents are like 30 years old or older.
Rift is now riding the wave of affordable and good solid state accelerometers or gyros, created by car and cell phone industries.