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Re: Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor

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Post by Gring »

pmelendez wrote: post #10

Am I the only one who thinks Google Glass is a bad idea? We already trusted our virtual life to google (emails, what we do, etc). Are we sure that we are ready to trust our real(physical) life too? Don't get me wrong... It seems like a cool project but I wouldn't use it, maybe I am getting too old :/

Absolutely. The problem is that the project is driven by Sergey Brin, who trusts his company completely.

Privacy would have to built into the project on many layers. Without a push to do so from above, they won't.

Re: Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor

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Post by [deleted] »

acous wrote: post #13
cyphersanctus wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hehe, I suppose that wont be hard in the nearby future (25 years). The glasses could have neuro-censors that would be in constant contact with key parts of both sides of the brain.

The glasses could have neuro-censors That's a frightening typo!

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Re: Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

meaty wrote: post #23
scanr wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious if you're arguing that Microsoft shouldn't hedge their risk to Google Glass taking off by building a competitive product? There are certainly a bunch of areas where Microsoft are also innovating (see Microsoft Research).

Microsoft Research: innovating to keep ideas away from other technology companies through patent hoarding. I'm not convinced anyone should be developing this product.

This is incredibly unfair. None of us (I work for MSRA) are doing research just to collect patents, we would totally like to change the world, like any researcher (e.g. in Google or Microsoft).

Re: Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor

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Post by pmelendez »

mtgx wrote: post #30
pmelendez wrote: post #10

Am I the only one who thinks Google Glass is a bad idea? We already trusted our virtual life to google (emails, what we do, etc). Are we sure that we are ready to trust our real(physical) life too? Don't get me wrong... It seems like a cool project but I wouldn't use it, maybe I am getting too old :/

I trust Google right now to anonymize the data they get from me, and to hide it from their own employees. What I wouldn't trust in this future is the Government to have easy access to this data, to see everything I've been watching and doing, and passing new laws to access this data even without warrants. To me that's orders of magnitude scarier than a company using the anonymized data to send me more relevant ads on…

That's part of the problem, in times of war the US Government would ask that data for "national security" sake and once they got it there is not turn back.

Re: Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor

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Post by Evbn »

T-A wrote: post #17
cyphersanctus wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hehe, I suppose that wont be hard in the nearby future (25 years). The glasses could have neuro-censors that would be in constant contact with key parts of both sides of the brain.

Neuro-censors... you mean like this guy? http://vimeo.com/46304267 ;)

Or like Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Re: Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor

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Post by kvb »

meaty wrote: post #23
scanr wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious if you're arguing that Microsoft shouldn't hedge their risk to Google Glass taking off by building a competitive product? There are certainly a bunch of areas where Microsoft are also innovating (see Microsoft Research).

Microsoft Research: innovating to keep ideas away from other technology companies through patent hoarding. I'm not convinced anyone should be developing this product.

I hope this isn't really your view of MSR; if it is, you might consider whether your opinions of Microsoft are coloring your perception. How is all of the academic work done on Haskell, for example, motivated by an impulse to exclude others from the technology? Or consider the MSR contributions to the papers on http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html, many of which are theoretical in nature. Do you view Xerox PARC or Bell Labs's research in the same way?

Disclosure: I'm doing some contract work with the F# team in MSR Cambridge.

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