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Winky Google Glass APP - hacked into Google glass and enabled winking control

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Re: Winky Google Glass APP - hacked into Google glass and enabled winking control

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This is awesome. I wonder why this is not the default (inbuilt) way of taking pictures. Before they made it more obvious, I was actually thinking this would be the way to click pictures in a glass.

Because randomly winking at people might give them the wrong idea.

It's certainly going to be creepy if someone who you're not comfortable sociably with approaches you wearing gGlasses and winks at you.

That would still be creepy without the gGlasses though.

It's also going to be creepy if someone who you currently are comfortable sociably with approaches you wearing gGlasses. "Mate... take them off please"

All roads lead to creepsville in normal social situations, unless the person is using them to augment something like adventure sports, visiting an exhibition or the like (which is why Google chose to lead with those marketing videos and demos obviously)

I wear different shit when I go hiking or skiing. I don't do my daily commute wearing ski goggles. The barrier to surmount for this to become acceptable rather than creepy-couture or ubiquitous in normal daily activities is possibly insurmountable for the foreseeable future (admittedly that's my wishful thinking, and I say this as someone who doesn't live in the Silicon Valley area).

Re: Winky Google Glass APP - hacked into Google glass and enabled winking control

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Waiting for the first guy to create a "Glass jammer" that kills nearby Glasses. (Guess it would not be practically possible)

It would be possible consentually--Google could design in a protocol whereby, say, getting in range of a certain recognized Bluetooth class turns off recording features until you leave.

...and then we'd have a real reason to root. ;)

Re: Winky Google Glass APP - hacked into Google glass and enabled winking control

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because randomly winking at people might give them the wrong idea.

It's certainly going to be creepy if someone who you're not comfortable sociably with approaches you wearing gGlasses and winks at you. That would still be creepy without the gGlasses though. It's also going to be creepy if someone who you currently are comfortable sociably with approaches you wearing gGlasses. "Mate... take them off please" All roads lead to creepsville in normal social situations, unless the person…

If this is to replace taking your phone out of your pocket or bag (as Brin suggests it has for him in a TED talk), it'll be used everywhere.

Personally, I can't wait. :)

Re: Winky Google Glass APP - hacked into Google glass and enabled winking control

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This is awesome. I wonder why this is not the default (inbuilt) way of taking pictures. Before they made it more obvious, I was actually thinking this would be the way to click pictures in a glass.

- Not everyone can wink well

- Some people can wink with one eye and not the other. With this they would be forced to wink with a specific eye, possibly the one they can't wink with.

- It's a little creepy

Re: Winky Google Glass APP - hacked into Google glass and enabled winking control

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Sousveillance here we come! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance

Yeah... sousveillance running on a device that you don't control and storing the data on machines that you do not own.

Or a device you do control streaming to servers to you do control. There isn't a little MiniTruth man checking every byte going through the camera.

Re: Winky Google Glass APP - hacked into Google glass and enabled winking control

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This is a really cool hack. It's exciting for me to see the amount of activity surrounding Glass. I wonder what the sensitivity is to recognize a gesture as a wink rather than a blink... I guess a dive into the source might answer that.

Re: Winky Google Glass APP - hacked into Google glass and enabled winking control

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This is awesome. I wonder why this is not the default (inbuilt) way of taking pictures. Before they made it more obvious, I was actually thinking this would be the way to click pictures in a glass.

How about a "Watch" that is a touch pad.
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