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Re: Project Tango

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Post by sixothree »

batmansbelt wrote: post #117
sixothree wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it's a coincidence that every new product announced by Google involves surrendering more and more personal information to them. Just once I would love to be proven wrong. But Google just seems like the neediest, clingiest, nosiest spouse one could ever have.

There is no need to throw in the casual sexism into your valid criticism. It diminishes your point.

You are correct. I did not mean to imply that. I'm fully aware men can have all of those same traits and more.

Re: Project Tango

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Post by wegi »

I am a little bit disappointed, that I have to be part of a company to apply there. No time to work full time while doing my masters.

Re: Project Tango

#123

Post by icefox »

return0 wrote: post #49

Cool technology and all, but i find that it is an odd fit for phones. Apart from games and other gimmicky applications, or exceptional cases like navigation for the blind, what are the awesome applications of space detection for a phone? I can think of much more interesting applications in mobile devices like cars.

Think of a phone not as a phone, but more like a really cheap way to have a portable computer with a screen and battery that you can put sensors on. It comes in the phone package because the industry is very much geared to churning out that form factor on the cheap.

Edit: and you can duck tape it to [car|bike|ect].

Re: Project Tango

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Post by maxerickson »

evanlivingston wrote: post #90
serf wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the blind. that use case is even demonstrated in the video.

Ocular implants are not the newest technology. The argument I think would be that a phone would be a cheaper alternative/more accessible. But I'm interested if the 'audio cues' that they mention in the video would be any better than the audio cues already present in most environments.

I'm only aware of wildly experimental implants providing like 200 dots of light. They aren't by any means a deployed medical technology.

This sort of system could provide audio cues in any environment. That's already a big step up from 'most environments'.

Re: Project Tango

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Post by dannyr »

snotrockets wrote: post #41

I wonder if Google has a stack of experimental projects to release whenever a competitor announces some headline grabbing news.

Or maybe it's the other way around.

Facebook got some news that Google is about to announce an ambitious, experimental project so they preempt it by buying WhatsApp for billions of dollars.

/sarcasm

Re: Project Tango

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Post by adamzerner »

I think the video made the mistake of focusing on features, and not benefits. (Not saying that the benefits aren't there, just that I personally don't see them, and the video didn't do a good job of making them apparent).

Re: Project Tango

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Post by Crito »

ajcarpy2005 wrote: post #70
SiVal wrote: post #53

"Imagine measuring your room by just walking around in it." Yes, and imagine transmitting each of those footsteps in real time back to Google, so they can have a map of your room, too, in case they, or other parties, ever need it. I was just having a discussion yesterday with a friend who works at Google about what data they store when you query their search engine. Every single keystroke, including backspaces, is st…

I feel like it would be foolish to pass up the opportunity to be studied by algorithms. I hope that the rich data about me one day becomes useful in even more fantastic ways than simply marketing advertisements to me.

You are not being studied by algorithms.

When you go to the doctor, you are not inspected by a stethoscope, you are not inspected by an X-ray CT, you are not inspected by a scale. You are inspected by a doctor who is using those things.

When I make decisions about consent, I am not primarily considering if I trust the tool. I am considering if I trust the person using the tool. My doctor wants to stick me in an X-ray CT? Okay, I'll consent to that. My employer or my insurance company wants to stick me in an X-ray CT? They can fuck right off.

You are being studied with algorithms.

Re: Project Tango

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Post by cakeface »

jlas wrote: post #18

"Unfortunately, due to FCC restrictions, we can only send development units to incorporated entities or institutions at this time." That's a bummer. Also, the page's default background-color should be set to black (or something dark). Most of the text is white(ish) and with a slow connection the background images take a while to load, making it impossible to read while you wait. /rant

This is a little creepy actually when you think about it. Here is this amazing new technology and the government says that only corporations are allowed to possess it. I'm sure that there are reasons but on the face of it I feel like it is right out of a cyberpunk book.

Re: Project Tango

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Post by shykes »

batmansbelt wrote: post #117
sixothree wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it's a coincidence that every new product announced by Google involves surrendering more and more personal information to them. Just once I would love to be proven wrong. But Google just seems like the neediest, clingiest, nosiest spouse one could ever have.

There is no need to throw in the casual sexism into your valid criticism. It diminishes your point.

Isn't spouse gender-neutral?

Re: Project Tango

#130

Post by flyt »

Not a single woman in this entire video.

edit: actually there's one I saw in the background as a camera pans over a table, but 99.9999% of the people represented here are men.

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