Google relaunches Glass for businesses

Post by techthroway443 » Tue, Jul 18, 2017, 7:45 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #170

aresant wrote: post #9

This is so !@%!@ cool. Check out the A/B test of a technician with / without the software referenced in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5gXuZp25f0 Then here's a video that gives a sense of the software's interface: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5HOHNECW20 Very workflow oriented with nice communication and lookup features. This is the kind of small optimization stuff that is going to be revolutionary…

Is there a particular reason the manual and the tools have to be a flight of stairs away from the technician? I'd wager that the comparison would lose some steam if the tech could just turn his head to the right. And as far as the software goes, there's a lot more there on display than just Glass. For instance, there are at least two cameras in this screenshot that are just magically implied to exist - one taking hig…

Post by mirimir » Tue, Jul 18, 2017, 7:49 PM UTC

Zak wrote: post #194

mirimir wrote: post #146

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Yeah. I really don't get why they focused on its gargoyle feature, which (rightly so) raised serious concerns about privacy, and downplayed AR. The obvious target market, other than geeks, would have been bikers. They'd find both gargoyle and AR very useful for swarm coordination. And military, of course. Perfect for infantry. But that's probably in quiet development.

> which (rightly so) raised serious concerns about privacy I always thought the privacy concerns were overblown: If it's about users surreptitiously recording others, wearing the really conspicuous gadget known to contain a camera on your head is a really ineffectual way to do that. A smartphone in a shirt pocket would be better, and surveillance devices intended to be concealed better (and cheaper) still. If it's ab…

Post by dmurray » Tue, Jul 18, 2017, 7:57 PM UTC

projectramo wrote: post #25

I know Glass, or something like it, will be great. But I don't know which combination of features + killer app will unlock the thing. HN has probably mentioned this before but is there a reason Google makes announcements on Medium and not on Blogger? I would do the same thing if I had a choice, but Google could just make the formatting on Blogger better.

Post by sctb » Tue, Jul 18, 2017, 8:03 PM UTC

matunixe wrote: post #167

Fuck you Google. Get off my life.

Post by AndrewKemendo » Tue, Jul 18, 2017, 8:04 PM UTC

gnaritas wrote: post #131

arbitrage wrote: post #29

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I would be totally cool with being recorded. I think its beyond time we get past the ridiculous false modesty that seems to be considered a virtue, but with no real benefit.

The desire for privacy is not "false modesty"; given the sentence you just uttered, I'm not convinced you even know what false modesty even means. People have a hard enough time even talking to doctors about embarrassing or sensitive issues, put a camera in the room and they simply won't, privacy is a need for most human beings, it's not false, it's not fake or done out of a desire to appear a particular way, it's a…