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Poll: Do you own a Google glass?

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Re: Poll: Do you own a Google glass?

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Post by yuchi »

ganarajpr wrote: post #24
tripzilch wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone already pointed this out in another thread: what if someone hacks it, starts displaying shock porn. Closing your eyes won't help, neither can you take them off as easy as glasses.

How many times on your computer have you been targeted by a hacker who showed you shock porn ? If the answer is nil, why do you think it will happen on your glass?

It's called "ratting" [1] and happens awfully more often that it should.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_administration_software

Re: Poll: Do you own a Google glass?

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Post by JonnieCache »

mikeevans wrote: post #27
JonnieCache wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much of your field of vision does it generally take up? If I catch someone using it when we're ostensibly having a conversation, will I be able to sucker punch them with impunity?

Not too much, only the top right corner. And why are the sucker punches limited to just Glass? Why not someone who stares at their phone during a conversation?

It's harder with smartphones because they generally notice what you're doing at the last moment. Apparently this will still apply to glass.

Re: Poll: Do you own a Google glass?

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Post by richardw »

Not in the current guise. It looks like the-new-bluetooth-earpiece, hides stuff coming at you from the RHS and I quite like the amount of connectedness I have now. It's not easily foldable and it probably doesn't handle scratching that well. I'll give it a few years.

Re: Poll: Do you own a Google glass?

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Post by silasb »

zacharypinter wrote: post #19

I put yes, but I don't get to pick mine up until a few days from now. Very excited about: * how it enhances the external mind concept * always on Bluetooth headphones (I think there are a lot of novel use cases that can spawn from this) * Spaced repetition applications * Building habits and changing behaviors (e.g. might be more inclined to build the habit of going to the gym if I had intelligently timed questions/fe…

One cool idea would be to be able to improve day-to-day activities.

I would love the ability to have OCR and being able to integrate that seamlessly into emails/txt/searches/etc.

Re: Poll: Do you own a Google glass?

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Post by randallsquared »

marknutter wrote: post #30

A thought occurred to me this morning about Google Glass: would a good alternative to wearing glasses that project a HUD into your eye be instead to simply wear a wrist watch that connects up to a wireless camera that you can mount to whatever you want, your head included. The benefit would be that you could mount the camera in a less conspicuous way, perhaps as a more traditional looking bluetooth headset. Or, you c…

> Glancing down at a watch doesn't seem that less convenient than staring at a HUD projected into your eye, and there's a lot less stigma attached to wearing a watch than wearing the goofy looking Glass.

Glancing at a watch is essentially the same as glancing at a phone, and that's already too much time and effort for lots and lots of use cases (including a lot of Google Nowish things that could be alerted to you if you were likely to look immediately, but useless in two minutes).

The stigma will go away pretty quickly, except from the people who always object to trying new things.

Re: Poll: Do you own a Google glass?

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Post by willismichael »

randallsquared wrote: post #35
marknutter wrote: post #30

A thought occurred to me this morning about Google Glass: would a good alternative to wearing glasses that project a HUD into your eye be instead to simply wear a wrist watch that connects up to a wireless camera that you can mount to whatever you want, your head included. The benefit would be that you could mount the camera in a less conspicuous way, perhaps as a more traditional looking bluetooth headset. Or, you c…

> Glancing down at a watch doesn't seem that less convenient than staring at a HUD projected into your eye, and there's a lot less stigma attached to wearing a watch than wearing the goofy looking Glass. Glancing at a watch is essentially the same as glancing at a phone, and that's already too much time and effort for lots and lots of use cases (including a lot of Google Nowish things that could be alerted to you if…

I have a feeling that people will soon adapt the ability to tell that a glass user isn't paying attention due to distraction from the glass, almost as easily as it is to tell now that a smartphone user isn't paying attention due to distraction from the smartphone.

Re: Poll: Do you own a Google glass?

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Post by marknutter »

randallsquared wrote: post #35
marknutter wrote: post #30

A thought occurred to me this morning about Google Glass: would a good alternative to wearing glasses that project a HUD into your eye be instead to simply wear a wrist watch that connects up to a wireless camera that you can mount to whatever you want, your head included. The benefit would be that you could mount the camera in a less conspicuous way, perhaps as a more traditional looking bluetooth headset. Or, you c…

> Glancing down at a watch doesn't seem that less convenient than staring at a HUD projected into your eye, and there's a lot less stigma attached to wearing a watch than wearing the goofy looking Glass. Glancing at a watch is essentially the same as glancing at a phone, and that's already too much time and effort for lots and lots of use cases (including a lot of Google Nowish things that could be alerted to you if…

> Glancing at a watch is essentially the same as glancing at a phone

You can't just "glance down at your phone", you have to take it out of your pocket first, and unlock it in most cases. Your watch is already in your peripheral view and very little effort is required to position it correctly and look down at it. I recently received my Pebble (http://getpebble.com) watch and you'll have to take my word for it. Being able to glance down at my watch to see text messages and caller ID's is much more natural and fluid than pulling my phone out of my pocket; especially when I'm sitting down.

Re: Poll: Do you own a Google glass?

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Post by willismichael »

tripzilch wrote: post #14
Simucal wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you wear a contact lens version of Glass if it was available or does the same apply?

Someone already pointed this out in another thread: what if someone hacks it, starts displaying shock porn. Closing your eyes won't help, neither can you take them off as easy as glasses.

If somebody is going to do malicious hacking on glass or a glass-like device, I would say that displaying offensive material is among the least of our worries.
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