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Re: How Google Glass Will Change Porn

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Post by yk »

ryanhuff wrote: post #5
dizzystar wrote: post #3

I really want to like the concept of Glass, but I can't shake the idea that it is pointing in the wrong direction. First Utopia and now Utopian Porn. There are so many things that are revolutionary that we can talk about that Glass will allow. Imagine: There is an emergency operation. Patient is laying at the table and the surgeon could really use a specialist's help pronto. What better views can we imagine than the…

I find your examples "crime witness aid for police" and then "other non-big-brother things" a bit chilling.

"crime witness aid for police" would probably be beneficial by itself, if it is possible to limit the privacy and surveillance concerns. So essentially the situation, where a witness starts to film a crime and then gives this video to the police. Or the police could be required to document everything they do (by taking a full video of each shift).

On the other hand, the surveillance potential is of course scary. And once Google glass is out, I really do not know how to limit the impact.

Re: How Google Glass Will Change Porn

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Post by pshin45 »

Whether the Oculus Rift or Google Glass will change porn more is anybody's guess, but I think we can all agree that this is terrible news for the sex robot industry. [1]

If you own shares in any sex robot manufacturers, you'd be wise to short/sell them immediately.

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/sex-robots-meet-roxxxy-robot-comes-sk...

Re: How Google Glass Will Change Porn

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Post by jacquesm »

pshin45 wrote: post #23

Whether the Oculus Rift or Google Glass will change porn more is anybody's guess, but I think we can all agree that this is terrible news for the sex robot industry. [1] If you own shares in any sex robot manufacturers, you'd be wise to short/sell them immediately. [1] http://www.ibtimes.com/sex-robots-meet-roxxxy-robot-comes-sk...

> If you own shares in any sex robot manufacturers, you'd be wise to short/sell them immediately.

Qualified investment advice on an internet forum, great, wait right here while I put my pension on the line to follow your directions.

Re: How Google Glass Will Change Porn

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Post by roel_v »

DigitalSea wrote: post #12

I get they're hinting at using Google Glass for filming porn, but lets face it, no pair of glasses will ever produce high definition video as good as an actual camera. Maybe for amateur porn, but I'm sure amateur porn is probably being shot on mobile phones at the moment anyway. I'd take a Canon 7D for filming video over any pair of glasses any day of the week. Would a pair of glasses like Google Glass even have the…

"no pair of glasses will ever produce high definition video as good as an actual camera"

If there is one thing the last 20 years should have taught us, it's that people who say 'x will never be as good as y' are, in the medium to long term, almost always fabulously wrong.

Re: How Google Glass Will Change Porn

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Post by jiggy2011 »

roel_v wrote: post #25
DigitalSea wrote: post #12

I get they're hinting at using Google Glass for filming porn, but lets face it, no pair of glasses will ever produce high definition video as good as an actual camera. Maybe for amateur porn, but I'm sure amateur porn is probably being shot on mobile phones at the moment anyway. I'd take a Canon 7D for filming video over any pair of glasses any day of the week. Would a pair of glasses like Google Glass even have the…

"no pair of glasses will ever produce high definition video as good as an actual camera" If there is one thing the last 20 years should have taught us, it's that people who say 'x will never be as good as y' are, in the medium to long term, almost always fabulously wrong.

That's a little bit of confirmation bias, there are plenty of xs that have never become as good as ys.

Re: How Google Glass Will Change Porn

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Post by jiggy2011 »

yk wrote: post #21
ryanhuff wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find your examples "crime witness aid for police" and then "other non-big-brother things" a bit chilling.

"crime witness aid for police" would probably be beneficial by itself, if it is possible to limit the privacy and surveillance concerns. So essentially the situation, where a witness starts to film a crime and then gives this video to the police. Or the police could be required to document everything they do (by taking a full video of each shift). On the other hand, the surveillance potential is of course scary. And…

Or how about an app that pays you a monthly fee in exchange for law enforcement being able to "borrow your eyes" whenever they want.

Re: How Google Glass Will Change Porn

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Post by anigbrowl »

pshin45 wrote: post #23

Whether the Oculus Rift or Google Glass will change porn more is anybody's guess, but I think we can all agree that this is terrible news for the sex robot industry. [1] If you own shares in any sex robot manufacturers, you'd be wise to short/sell them immediately. [1] http://www.ibtimes.com/sex-robots-meet-roxxxy-robot-comes-sk...

Roxxxy comes with a variety of modes, including Skank Mode.

what

Re: How Google Glass Will Change Porn

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Post by anigbrowl »

roel_v wrote: post #25
DigitalSea wrote: post #12

I get they're hinting at using Google Glass for filming porn, but lets face it, no pair of glasses will ever produce high definition video as good as an actual camera. Maybe for amateur porn, but I'm sure amateur porn is probably being shot on mobile phones at the moment anyway. I'd take a Canon 7D for filming video over any pair of glasses any day of the week. Would a pair of glasses like Google Glass even have the…

"no pair of glasses will ever produce high definition video as good as an actual camera" If there is one thing the last 20 years should have taught us, it's that people who say 'x will never be as good as y' are, in the medium to long term, almost always fabulously wrong.

Not true. I can think of many cases where they're wrong, but I can also think of many where they're right. With cameras and suchlike you're running limitations of physics, as far as image acquisition is concerned; the other issue is that there's a huge body of knowledge on how to move a camera properly, whereas a head-mounted camera is kind of painful to watch because you don't have the kinetic cues to go with it, and every little twitch or movement of the head becomes a distraction for the viewer who has to filter out the irrelevant movements in their visual cortex. Look at all those videos on youtube where people don't know how to hold a camcorder and it is just waving all over the place even when they're aiming it at a static object in front of them.

The musical instrument world is abuzz with new analog synthesizers right now, because over the last couple of years several major manufacturers have just gone back to manufacturing it because SMT and FPGA/FPAAs have made it affordable to do so again. They're still making DSP synths because DSP still offers many advaantages (not as noisy, fewer limits on polyphony, vastly cheaper at scale), but analog synths are huge again because they simply sound more interesting to most musicians than their digital equivalents. I'm about to sell one of my DSP boxes for this very reason, in fact.

Re: How Google Glass Will Change Porn

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Post by klez »

DigitalSea wrote: post #12

I get they're hinting at using Google Glass for filming porn, but lets face it, no pair of glasses will ever produce high definition video as good as an actual camera. Maybe for amateur porn, but I'm sure amateur porn is probably being shot on mobile phones at the moment anyway. I'd take a Canon 7D for filming video over any pair of glasses any day of the week. Would a pair of glasses like Google Glass even have the…

sorry, but how is filming a child in a shop or in a park "child pornography"?
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