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Post by dev1n »

yakiv wrote: post #118
oinksoft wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's awful. For ages, we've worried about The Government mounting cameras everywhere until the only private space was one's own home, and away from windows at that. 1984 famously envisioned a world where this surveillance extended to the domicile, but even then it was stationary and had blind spots. Seems that in the near future, there will be little need for any of this, and there will be no coercion; rather, most o…

It's like Facebook.

And how wonderful that will be.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by jimbobimbo »

turing wrote: post #59
speeder wrote: post #28

" Think of it this way — if you get a text message or have an incoming call when you’re walking down a busy street, there are something like two or three things you have to do before you can deal with that situation. Most of them involve you completely taking your attention off of your task at hand: walking down the street. With Glass, that information just appears to you, in your line of sight, ready for you to take…

I'm inclined to disagree. When I'm in class or working and I receive a notification I almost always check it. In most cases I wouldn't say that this is because I'm "addicted," but rather because I have a class of notifications that need to be handled quickly (job and fellowship applications, questions from my boss or the PI in my lab, etc). Most of the time I end up pulling my phone out and seeing that it's just a du…

From my experience, anything that comes as email or text is rarely urgent as we might think it is. If something is really serious, it's either you are working as 911 operator :) or people will call or come in person. You might disagree, of course, but wait 'till you enter the workforce and see how'd you deal with an endless stream of "OMG! Super urgent!" emails.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by erikpukinskis »

mtgx wrote: post #45

I hope Google can put OIS for anti-shake and a good camera in there. You're probably going to need as good image stabilizer as possible, as you'll be moving and shaking (when walking) your head a lot more than with a phone that you can still keep more or less still.

I don't think optical stabilization would really do much for full-on head bobbing. It's more for finer-grained movements, like hands shaking. And I don't think our heads actually shake much.

That said, you could do digital stabilization on head bobbing and probably get a pretty good result by jacking up the size of the stabilization window, although you'd lose frame size.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by jfb »

WestCoastJustin wrote: post #4

Avid sailor here, and I like to race, typical race is ~6 hours, but longer races too, 24-48 hours. We are continually evaluating, speed over ground, radios, depth, AIS for marine traffic, tide flow (current), GPS, charts, race course, etc. We have many devices that give us a picture of what is going on. I love the idea of Google Glass as a heads up display [1] for everyday people! Sure, we use a computer to compile m…

I want one of these in a dive mask.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by dev1n »

molbioguy wrote: post #100

If someone is being photographed, is there any way for that person to know that Google Glass is recording video? I would feel really uncomfortable if a colleague had Google Glass on at a meeting or at lunch or in my office, unless I knew I wasn't being recorded. The privacy concerns on this are enormous in my view.

From a legal context, is someone's right to privacy thrown out the window every time they go outside? If so, then the legal issues with people videotaping other people would be almost zero, which IMO is kind of odd to think about.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by DanielBMarkham »

I'm not much on telling the future, but I see a huge avalanche of Google Glass stories on the horizon.

I got into stereoscopic photography lately, you know, with two cameras. I'll probably be willing to try Google Glass, but I sure would like a version that captured stereoscopic images. We have two eyeballs, we should capture two image streams.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by neverm0re »

liber8 wrote: post #51

I'm not sure why I haven't seen this addressed yet, but doesn't the widespread use of something like Glass portend the dramatic fall of the prevalence of street crime? Widespread use of CCTV cameras are one thing, but millions of eye-level recording devices (presumably automatically beamed to the cloud at some point), would seem to me to be a major deterrent to all sorts of street crime. I can see this effecting not…

Sousveillance[1] seems to really answer 'Who watches the watchmen?' with 'We all do'. Ultimately I think not only crime will go down, but also more egregious cases of corruption. This is more harmful to governments in the long run who like a rather tight control over information, as the internet constantly demonstrates. I'm slowly learning to be okay with this aspect of AR.

It's the /services/ that Glass secretly enable for its users that I find far more worrying than mere scrapbooking of your life. Just start thinking as sleazy as possible here, for a moment. If Glass can log conversations, it can also relay conversations to other parties to comment upon.

I just can't stop imagining things like MTurk-like services staffed with popped-collar sociopaths fresh off the set of Jersey Shore, all working with your transcripts to be your 'virtual wingman' as you work your 'game' on unsuspecting people. Ridiculous, but just sleazy enough I could see it.

I imagine if we all really just wanted to depress ourselves today, we could keep coming up with more and more ideas of how to exploit AR for social advantage/manipulation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by guizzy »

bsimpson wrote: post #12

I'm in the Explorer program, but practical issues like fashion/etiquette have had me reconsidering if I'd really be willing to spend money to put a computer on my face. This review has gone a long way towards assuaging those concerns, but I wonder what they can do about anti-theft. Being pickpocketed on public transit is a very real concern in most cities with >500k people. Imagine how much easier it'd be to snatch a…

If it's done correctly, such devices could be the stupidest thing you could try to steal.

For instance, it could buffer constantly (if it doesn't already, I'm not too sure) the last 5 or 10 seconds of video. If it detects the device has been snatched this buffer is instantly dumped to the paired smartphone (and from there possibly to the cloud).

So unless the thief is very skillful, there's likely a good mugshot of him or her out there.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by diggan »

oftenwrong wrote: post #76
speeder wrote: post #28

" Think of it this way — if you get a text message or have an incoming call when you’re walking down a busy street, there are something like two or three things you have to do before you can deal with that situation. Most of them involve you completely taking your attention off of your task at hand: walking down the street. With Glass, that information just appears to you, in your line of sight, ready for you to take…

If you are able to, try disabling notifications on your phone. I predict there will be regulation of hudphone use, especially where the operation of vehicles is concerned. A notification pop-up sapping a person's concentration at the wrong moment could be dangerous.

That's not a problem when you got a self driving car.

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Post by purplelobster »

liber8 wrote: post #51

I'm not sure why I haven't seen this addressed yet, but doesn't the widespread use of something like Glass portend the dramatic fall of the prevalence of street crime? Widespread use of CCTV cameras are one thing, but millions of eye-level recording devices (presumably automatically beamed to the cloud at some point), would seem to me to be a major deterrent to all sorts of street crime. I can see this effecting not…

Watch the 3rd episode in the first season of "Black Mirror" to see some of the downsides of 24/7 video recording.
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