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Re: How Google Glass Will Change Porn

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Post by DigitalSea »

klez wrote: post #30
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"?

Maybe not child pornography in that instance, but I associate any sexually motivated action involving children (secretly filming them for devious purposes) to be somewhat of a sick act nonetheless whatever you want to call it. We don't need to get into specifics here for it to be considered a warranted worry, we all know there are going to be stories of people using devices like Google Glass for nefarious purposes.

Re: How Google Glass Will Change Porn

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Post by DigitalSea »

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.

Considering Google Glass utilises cloud storage on presumably some kind of LTE plan I don't see high quality blu-ray or even DVD ready video recording quality anytime soon from these things, it's just not plausible high quality video can be captured and streamed via any network as fast as it is being captured (unless Glass has on-board high storage, but I haven't heard of any).

You are somewhat right in that people have said "x will never be as good as y" and were proven wrong, but that isn't always the case. In this instance I don't see Google Glass replacing any day-to-day camera. Mobile phone camera technology is a good example, mobile phone cameras have become a lot better in the quality of; video, imagery, lenses and sensors they have, but due to constraints such as; battery life, storage capacity and smaller form factor will never be good for more than happy snaps. And while lots of people are content with happy snap quality, to say that Google Glass in the article will ever be of high enough quality to record palatable professional pornography is a misguided and incorrect statement.

Re: How Google Glass Will Change Porn

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Post by 16s »

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 call this the "Fart App Generation Phenomenon".

They take technology and use it to satisfy immature juvenile urges and then say, oh, wow, this is so cool. Give them an iphone and they'll write an app showing boobs that jiggle when you shake the iphone.

They waste technology and the power it takes to run it, and they just don't get it. There's a place for that sort of content and those types of apps (bachelor parties, etc), but it's far too prominent today. I hope that changes soon.

Re: How Google Glass Will Change Porn

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Post by gailees »

igul222 wrote: post #7

Common misconception: Google Glass does not augment your entire field of view, as this article implies. It only occupies the top right corner of it, and looking there for more than a few seconds at a time hurts your eyes. So no, Glass isn't going to change porn like this at all.

Yeah I'm not sure you're understanding what they are saying about POV porn.

Re: How Google Glass Will Change Porn

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Post by Nemisis7654 »

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…

The thing is, I feel like hospitals are hesitant to embrace new technology that isn't proven. Glass definitely fits that category. Like 16s said above, it's the First App Generation. This will get it in the hands of users. And from there, I think we will begin to see the really good, game changing uses.

Besides, like the article says, it always seems to be that the porn industry is one of the first to innovate. And that's because it's such a crowded space. Here's an interesting article about it http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/23/porn.technology/index...

Re: How Google Glass Will Change Porn

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Post by spizzo »

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…

That's along the lines of what I was thinking. Google glass will change porn in the same way that camera phones changed photography. It'll be more accessible to amateurs maybe, but professionals will probably not use this tech considerably.

Re: How Google Glass Will Change Porn

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Post by r00fus »

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 the police could be required to document everything they do (by taking a full video of each shift).

These tools already exist, and do great - except when they don't. Strangely, they tend to "not work" exactly when the officer is suspected/accused of overstepping the bounds of their authority or the law.

The classic example is the 18 minute silence on the Nixon tapes [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_White_House_tapes

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