Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

The Glass Bicycle

dcurt.is

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

31–40 of 179 posts

Re: The Glass Bicycle

#31

Post by cwilson »

sjhcockrell wrote: post #21
cwilson wrote: post #8

I wish Google would focus on using Google Glass within the workplace before trying to take it to the streets for casual use. I can imagine using them within the office, because anything that makes me more productive is totally acceptable "socially". Outside of the office however I have serious doubts to if I'd wear these around daily. My colleague will know why I'm essentially talking to myself to use Google Glass, w…

That's my take, too--it would be infinitely more useful in a work environment. I can imagine how having a HUD could be useful while programming, even though I have two screens in front of me already. I can also imagine how it would make certain elements of interacting with people working remotely--like seeing what someone's doing, whether it's programming in a terminal or sketching on a pad--so much easier. That said…

I love the idea of "shared views" when you're having meetings or collaborating with people. Whatever document or supplementary set of data you're talking about is on the entire groups HUD.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

#32

Post by RandallBrown »

There's a company that's been making HUD technology for ski goggles for a few years. http://www.reconinstruments.com/

Something like this is far more accessible to consumers since you won't look weird in the goggles. Unfortunately it's VERY expensive (4 or 5 times the price of a regular pair of goggles).

Re: The Glass Bicycle

#33

Post by stevewilhelm »

I would like my next car Google Glass enabled. It could display turn by turn directions, warn of upcoming traffic, and let me know what services are available at the next exit.

I can also foresee Google Glass being very useful for complex, domain specific tasks that require your hands: surgery, automobile repair, home construction, cooking, learning to play an instrument, dealing cards, sowing, tying flies etc.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

#34

Post by pazimzadeh »

sp332 wrote: post #17
bane wrote: post #13

If anybody wants to get a good idea where something like glass could go, read the Phaethon series starting with "The Golden Age". It's a bit of a tough read, but the author spent some serious time considering the implications of a civilization built around always wearing these kind of devices at all times. Glass acts like a layer on top of the real world, consider then that as the technology improves and the number o…

It doesn't really project itself over your field of view. It's a smallish window in the corner of your vision.

Hopefully this is just the MVP.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

#35

Post by akurilin »

I think a first big step is going to be conquering usability of Glass with respect to NLP. It's truly going to embody the vision that Dustin is talking about once I can get things don with my voice with no error and minimal overhead. Ideally we wouldn't even have to talk to the device, that would be the Holy Grail.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

#37

Post by cscurmudgeon »

Maybe I am an idiot for not understanding this sentiment expressed below:

"Google glass will make everyone smarter"

Is it in the same way that a car makes an obese un-athletic person faster?

Re: The Glass Bicycle

#38

Post by joeld42 »

The closest analogy I see is with the segway. Something that could be useful and even world-changing but overhyped and dumped on a market without justifying it's existence. Apple could have released the iPad first but they waited to teach the market what it was with the iPhone first. Thus each step (iPhone, tablet) was a new form of a familiar thing rather than a new thing altogether.

If I were in Google's shoes, I would start by introducing the glass into existing items such as workplace safety goggles. Imagine a pair of carpenter's safety goggles that could measure a piece of wood, or track a list of supplies, or show a work plan as you go. It's not the big play, but you can try it in a bunch of contexts until it catches on. It will generate press and awareness, and then once the novelty wears off you can make a "smart goggles for everyone".

Google's mistake continues to be that the believe value is in novelty, when really it is in taking something people are already familiar with and reinventing it, better.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

#39

Post by jonandreas »

PeterisP wrote: post #28
mehrdad wrote: post #9

Personally I am offended by Google glass! and I refuse to talk to anyone filming and recording my voice me on Google glass. It's offensive on many levels. Google should work on a social etiquette for their product. Showing you a small screen on your end is your business, pointing a camera toward me, recording me and my voice is my business, and it can only be done with my permission, and it is "no". The only scenario…

If you value privacy, you don't want me looking at your private stuff. Don't show it to me or ask me to leave. But if you allow me to look at you, then I can remember what I see. I am allowed to remember everything that I see and hear, every single last detail, forever, and without requesting permission from anyone. If I have trouble remembering, I may write it down or draw pictures of what I saw and heard, and also…

But a recording allows you to share what I have shown you (perhaps assuming it would remain a private matter) with the world. A video recording has a higher truth value than oral reproduction.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

#40

Post by 6chars »

RandallBrown wrote: post #32

There's a company that's been making HUD technology for ski goggles for a few years. http://www.reconinstruments.com/ Something like this is far more accessible to consumers since you won't look weird in the goggles. Unfortunately it's VERY expensive (4 or 5 times the price of a regular pair of goggles).

Warning: that page automatically starts playing a video with audio on load!

Obnoxious.

Post reply on HN