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I've literally never fallen off of my road bike in 20 years of cycling, and if i get hit by a car or something I have bigger problems...
I do it about once every 2-3 years. Just last month I misjudged a curb cut while on a bike trail after dark. Before that a railroad crossing, on a angle, grabbed my tire. For me this is not all that rare...
Is the image from glass projected into your eye or onto a screen? If it's projected directly into your eye then wouldn't it possible to set the focal distance to be roughly the same as where you're already looking? NB given I have never ever heard of this happening i suspect there's a hole in my knowledge of optics but it would be awesome if it was possible.
I think it is mildly ridiculous how much attention "Glass" receives. The concept behind the product seems remotely OK, however from all the initial reviews this seems like yet another failed Google experiment. Poor, buggy software, and bulky hardware that looks like a joke - I'd be embarrassed to wear those. I think people really need to stop spinning the whole Google Glasses topic, they don't really deserve the atte…
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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.
After all, the flip side is, "or announce that a flavor that you paid $600 for barely 14 months ago is end-of-life and will not be getting any updates".
It's not nature, but everyone who already wears glasses knows what this is like. It's just part of my software by now.
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Hmm. I can't see how it would be much more dangerous than using a mirror. I ride with a mirror mounted on my glasses, and I glance up at it briefly then back at the road again. The same would be true of the glass. Sure, when you're first getting used to it you will probably linger on it for longer due to the novelty and getting used to the exact focus point. But once you get the hang of it, I can't imagine it would b…
The mirror is there to increase your situational awareness while cycling. Glass has a strong potential to do the opposite. If its use is limited to HUD for information useful to you for cycling, fine, but if you're getting text messages or anything else you have to think about, it's distracting.
As 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…
I'm interested in a second opinion on the speaker. I think the bone conduction was more a privacy than a convenience choice. He mentions others can hear garbled sound. What did it seem like to you?
As far as what other people can hear, definitely something, but not super well. Also, depends on how quiet it is.
There's a problem with glass. As far as I can tell. What Google is hoping for is to tease us into wanting something, that no one has asked for. Google is not alone in this historically. Let's step back a decade, when we were all told that Microsoft (by Microsoft) had the biggest R&D budget in the world. What products came out of that R&D? ZERO. Apple on the other hand spent years developing the iPhone with iPod profi…
Uhh, what, huh?
You mean to tell me all those movies, cartoons, thousands of sci fi books where people explore a future with such objects, all these people exploring and creating, or describing what a future might be like...
... are not actually asking for it at all.
Instead, they're just waiting for what Apple will tell them they wanted all along?
Sorry, even as someone who has an MBP, iPhone, iPad, I find this perspective hilarious and borderline offensive.
Nowhere in nature does moving your head also move the thing you want to look It's not nature, but everyone who already wears glasses knows what this is like. It's just part of my software by now.
If I physically move my head, nothing I am looking at is moving with me, i.e. the computer screen does not move to where I look.
The point is that you look through glasses, yet the Google Glass screen makes you focus on it, not through it, and hence it moves with your general head movement.
Or have I misunderstood what you said?
Nowhere in nature does moving your head also move the thing you want to look It's not nature, but everyone who already wears glasses knows what this is like. It's just part of my software by now.
I'm sorry if I'm being a bit dense, but I don't understand your comment. :( If I physically move my head, nothing I am looking at is moving with me, i.e. the computer screen does not move to where I look. The point is that you look through glasses, yet the Google Glass screen makes you focus on it, not through it, and hence it moves with your general head movement. Or have I misunderstood what you said?