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Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by martythemaniak »

_delirium wrote: post #86
joedev wrote: post #75

The image shown in this article does a good job of highlighting the usefulness of Glass. It's not just a heads up display. It's the smarts of knowing where you are, what you are doing, what you plan to do in order to provide relevant information in an automatic and unobtrusive way. "Oh, I see you're at the airport and you have tickets on flight 644. Here's some useful departure info." Instead of finding a departure s…

I can see the contextual bit, but I'm not really sold—at least, not yet—on the HUD form-factor. Why can't I view the smartly-pulled-up, contextual information on a smartphone screen? There are a handful of situations where no-hands usage would be nice, but for the most part a screen works fine for me. There are lots of things I'd like improved about quick, non-frustrating access to information, but they're mostly the…

> "Why can't I view the smartly-pulled-up, contextual information on a smartphone screen?"

You can, it's called Google Now.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by PeterisP »

mehrdad wrote: post #51
PeterisP wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you value privacy, you don't want me looking at your private stuff. Don't show it to me or ask me to leave. But if you allow me to look at you, then I can remember what I see. I am allowed to remember everything that I see and hear, every single last detail, forever, and without requesting permission from anyone. If I have trouble remembering, I may write it down or draw pictures of what I saw and heard, and also…

And tell me again why customer service agent informs me that my voice is being recorded? I don't thing he/she just wants to be polite.

I'm not really arguing about the details of how current laws are, I'm arguing about the morality of technology and how the laws should be.

If I'm talking to you over the phone, I'm allowed (both morally and legally) to remember your conversation. I'm allowed (both morally and legally) to write it down, to remember it better. And I'm allowed (both morally and legally) to remember it perfectly forever, if I'm able to.

Should we legally forbid to actually fulfill that if I need some assistance to remember it exactly as happened? My fuzzy memories and notes are allowed, why should better, exact memories/notes be forbidden?

I'm allowed and may be even required to remember past events in courts - should we forbid remembering things as they actually happened and require them to be stuck in the noisy, lossy and distorting channel that is homo sapiens memories?

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by Apocryphon »

randallsquared wrote: post #110
adam wrote: post #65

It's interesting that in HN comments, most people are very excited for the arrival of glass. They think of it as something that will enhance their lifestyle, their productivity, etc. If you read comments about glass in other forums such as at the bottom of NYTimes articles or other more general public media, most comments seem to be just the opposite: fear and paranoia about the arrival of glass in terms of privacy,…

Actually, it's been surprising to me that there are many, many folks on HN who view this the way you mention non-HNers do. I would have expected what you say to be the case, but lots of HNers also seem to be dismissive and afraid of this. :(

All technology is worth careful examination.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by skeletonjelly »

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #111
skeletonjelly wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What has started in the workplace and ended up a common item though? I feel like something that starts off in the workplace immediately loses it's "cool", which is needed for rapid uptake

PC, laptop, mobile phone ...

I mean more accessories. How many tweens do you see with a bluetooth earpiece? It looks hideously business.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

pazimzadeh wrote: post #34
sp332 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't really project itself over your field of view. It's a smallish window in the corner of your vision.

Hopefully this is just the MVP.

No, replacing what you see instead of adding to it is a much more difficult and tricky problem. I wouldn't expect it in the near future in a consumer application.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by cscurmudgeon »

randallsquared wrote: post #121
cscurmudgeon wrote: post #37

Maybe I am an idiot for not understanding this sentiment expressed below: "Google glass will make everyone smarter" Is it in the same way that a car makes an obese un-athletic person faster?

Yes, as we all know, only obese, non-athletic people can be made faster by cars. Sigh. Seriously, though, I know that my effective memory is thousands or millions of percent better than it would be without search and the internet. Google Glass just makes this faster and easier, and makes my life that much better remembered.

Sigh, you completely missed my point. There is technology which makes the human organism better and there is technology which just acts a crutch. Bicycles fall into the former category but not cars. Coursera/Udacity fall into the former category but Google glass does not.

Read "The Shallows."

Also, we are nowhere near the Singularity and all this tech will just make us intellectually obese in the end. Don't you agree that a car while making you faster in one sense does not really make you faster in another sense? Once again, we don't have artificial legs which we can seamlessly integrate into our bodies to actually make us faster. We don't have chips that can integrate with our brains seamlessly. I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by nooneelse »

Kylekramer wrote: post #49
jameswilsterman wrote: post #42

I think I agree with the Torrez/Gruber take that "If you see the computer, they blew it" http://notes.torrez.org/2013/02/if-you-see-the-computer-they... That doesn't mean that a wearable device embedded in your glasses cannot eventually become a 'bicycle for the mind' but I think the fact that the computer is so noticeable and strange looking means that this version 1.0 will not be too successful. Google is positioni…

Torrez/Gruber seem to be arguing smartphones are superior cause you aren't always focusing on them, but what is stopping you from not always using the glasses?

I've searched a little but can't find a picture of someone wearing them pushed up onto their head like people often do with sunglasses. But I too don't understand why people seem to be ignore that option in their objections. Or put a lanyard on them and wear them around your neck when you want to show everyone around that you are not splitting your attention.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by damian2000 »

In the same way that most people now associate Apple with the iPhone, in the future Google Glass may become Google's piece de resistance ... the product for which they are most well known for. Google search will just be a service embedded in everything.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by mietek »

DanBC wrote: post #22
VengefulCynic wrote: post #10

To my mind, the Google Glass is far more like the Microsoft Tablet, the Tesla Roadster and the Palm Treo: the initial realization of a concept that, before now, didn't exist in the world at all. It seems incorrect to compare it to the iPhone and the iPad because both of those were taking technology that had existed in the tech community for years and reimagining them in a way that appealed to the general public. As a…

> Google Glass is [...] the initial realization of a concept that, before now, didn't exist in the world at all. I don't understand. Heads up displays have existed in various forms for years. We've had versions that cover one eye, or that use lasers onto the retina.

Please let me know where can I buy a personal retinal projection display today. Preferably, without having to mortgage my house.
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