I wonder how long it will be before there are Google Glass porn sites.
(No doubt someone already has proposed it as an "If I had Glass proposal.)
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Reminds me of this talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG0KrT6pBPk by moxie. We thought we would get facism, instead we got social democracy. We will be able to deal with this, though, using appropriate laws. Europe will certainly go down that route, the US will probably follow. For example, using the camera to take pictures or videos that are stored or shared (vs. just processed by some augmented reality algorithms)…
> We will be able to deal with this, though, using appropriate laws. Ah, yes, in the same way that we've dealt with music piracy through law. More seriously, people are going to have to get over the feeling that recording an event with human memory is obviously acceptable while recording an event with higher-fidelity devices is obviously not. Especially given that recordings can be faked, there is no dividing line be…
> Especially given that recordings can be faked, there is no dividing line between these.
How many of the people you know have ever created a video that seems completely true but is actually doctored? I'm a software developer, reasonably comfortable with technology, but I wouldn't know how, and I'm not even sure if I know anyone I could ask to do it. Certainly not without a fair amount of expense. Contrast that with verbal accounts of "internal memory": even a three year old is perfectly capable of lying, about pretty much anything.
So, if you tell or show someone something privately, you at least have the fallback of denying it if they go and share it against your wishes. If they record it, then in almost all cases people will take it as fact and there's nothing you can do. Not only that, but then they can actually show other people rather than just telling them. For many things, that's a much bigger deal.
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#143Is it just me or is anyone else bothered by the uneven design where one side has the display and the other side does not. My mind wants the sides to be the same, they should put a fake one on the other side.
I think the asymmetric design is very interesting and kind of cool looking. But I agree that it also draws your attention to it. With something like an earring or patch of color on your clothing, that's normal enough not to be jarring, but with this...I think it totally emphasizes how new and strange it is.
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#144If 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.
Yes, FTA: As soon as we got inside however, the employees at Starbucks asked us to stop filming. Sure, no problem. But I kept the Glass’ video recorder going, all the way through my order and getting my coffee. Yes, you can see a light in the prism when the device is recording, but I got the impression that most people had no idea what they were looking at. The cashier seemed to be on the verge of asking me what I wa…
Well that's just awful.
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#145Google should really make a camera-less version of the Glass. Portable eye-level display is insanely useful. But if it's burdened with something that is viewed by many as a source of privacy concerns, it would just hinder the adoption. It will make the Glass banned from corporate environments, planes and basically every place that has "no cameras" signs. Like supermarkets.
There's always the low tech solution: place a circle of electrical tape over the lens. Disconnecting the microphone and GPSr would be more involved, but without them the functionality is greatly reduced so maybe that's moot.
FWIW, opaque tape over the lens is the method the NSA recommends for securing the cameras on iOS devices and laptops:
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/applemac/Apple_iOS_5_Guide.p...
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/factsheets/macosx_hardening_tip...
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#146It's understandable but unfortunate that Google has not been saying much about accommodating prescription lenses. Some of us wear glasses already and cannot wear contacts. Later releases may support custom lenses, it seems.
The accelerometer in it could be useful from a public health standpoint. Unlikne a phone in a pocket, the head is relatively stable. Glass could detect if someone collapses and then call for an ambulance.
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#147I 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.
Humans probably compensate for some movements, but they are nowhere near as good at it as birds.
For examples, see http://www.cogsci.nl/blog/bird-brains-and-fish-eyes/177-stab...
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#148I probably wouldn't use Glass in my everyday life, but I totally see it working for tourism. Getting directions is a pretty obvious use case. But learning about what you're seeing is the biggest win. See a building you like? Ask Glass what its history is. At a museum? Get more information about the art you're seeing. Learning while experiencing sounds awesome.
Yeah, Glass + Goggles seems an awesome combination.
But even awesomer would be Glass + Word Lens: http://questvisual.com/us/
(Assuming it works well, I haven't tried it)
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#149What happens if someone standing next to you tries to give commands to your Glass? Is there a way for Glass to determine whose voice is the owner's?
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> losing data or experiencing slow data on a phone put the headset into a near-unusable state This makes me think that the voice processing is done server-side. I wouldn't be at all surprised by this; that's how Siri does it, and I would be amazed if they managed to fit good enough voice recognition into even a phone, let alone this tiny thing.
The headset doesn't appear to be as big as a phone: so I'm wondering whether the headset talks to a phone that then talks to Google, or whether the headset really does the lot.
The device gets data through Wi-Fi on its own, or it can tether via Bluetooth to an Android device or iPhone and use its 3G or 4G data while out and about.