Credit goes to the first developer who creates a blackjack card counting app for the device.
Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month
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#52Turning people into walking video surveillance systems since 2013. I'll try to avoid people wearing these glasses.
My experience for the last two years is that usually there are 2 or 3 people sitting around in any public place with their phones/tablets out pointed in my direction. Those phones/tablets have a camera (most have two at this point). They can be turned on remotely by software running in a background process. In addition almost all public spaces have more than one surveillance camera.
I don't think merely avoiding google glass wearing people will help much. To be effective you should probably avoid anyone with a phone/tablet that is not in their pocket and stay out of public spaces (maybe live in the woods).
Why not complain about Gorgon Stare instead? Since it is more likely to be used for infringing rights and you have more of a legal case (preventing unwanted photography in public was lost long ago).
>"The system is capable of capturing motion imagery of an entire city, which can then be analyzed by humans or an artificial intelligence, such as the Mind's Eye project being developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. [..] It is a spherical array of nine cameras attached to an aerial drone." -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
The average internal combustion engine is really pretty simple. It is no more complex to a mechanic than the innards of a "powerful" desktop PC are to most computer people. All the glasses could do is display a layout of a known engine, they can't see inside it to highlight a problem. So, it seems like they would be more of an overall nuisance than anything else in that scenario.
AFAIK, _the_ drive for AR in maintenance is that it makes it possible for you to look at a schematic while using both hands for the task at hand, and in whatever position you are. For example, imagine inspecting a plane's fuel tanks from the inside. You could bring a manual, but getting it out of your pocket may be cumbersome, checking that you took it out after the job takes time, etc (forgetting your glasses is les…
Depending on the PDF processes to create that manual and its overall design sensibility...imagine how hard it will be to navigate the same kind of manuals that don't behave on a tablet...sometimes, paper will still end up as being the best choice.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
These are wearable computers, not glasses with visual powers that are not yet feasible to implement, period (I'm guessing there would be a few technical issues with head-mounted-x-ray machines).
By x-ray view, I figured he meant it would download the schematic of the engine and display that overlaid on what you're seeing.
yes, I didnt mean to really xray the engine, just give you an AR view of the schematic. I would assume it would require certain calibration points or barcodes on the engine to orient itself.
And even if it was a nuisance once you learned the engine, it could be a useful tool in schools or someone learning a new engine.
Even imagine a small engine machine shop that sees 10s or 100's of different kinds of engines.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
imagine mechanics using it to see an x-ray kind of view of a vehicle or engine. location/time awareness could do a "checklist" of sorts when you are leaving your house to make sure you pick up all of the items from the front table. a lego app that helps you find that piece in the big bin of pieces
> x-ray kind of view of a vehicle or engine BMW did a research project about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9KPJlA5yds The problem with augmented reality is that you need incredibly low latency: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/latency-the-sine-qua-n... Early systems will likely stick to simple HUD views that don't require tracking of real objects with low latency.
yeah, for realtime AR, latency would be a big challenge, but even if in the beginning you could only take a picture and then overlay a schematic over the top of that view, I could see it being useful.
I have looked up how to take a laptop apart before to change a part that required me to remove screws in certain places, unhook cables and do other steps in a particular order. Half the trouble with that is figuring out where the picture corresponds to the device in your hands - even if you had to manual advance the instructions, a HUD arrow pointing to the screw would be super useful I think.
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#56Credit goes to the first developer who creates a blackjack card counting app for the device.
Second credit goes to the first guy kicked out of a casino for wearing one of these.
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#57I'm not entirely sure of the capabilities of Glass. For instance, battery life and an ability to persistently have the camera on and displaying an overlay for extended periods seems difficult. Some of the Glass ideas I like but haven't heard much discussion over: - Facial recognition with a little popup over people's heads with their name. Never forget someone's name - Link in with Facebook or your calendar to have p…
Being a private person i just shudder when hearing concepts about face recognition or auto tweets in this context. ^ "Have an alternate reality game with digital objects people can place/write on. Only Glass users can see the teddy bear in the corner, and only google glass users can see the giant graffiti wall where people sign their name." I am sorry since for some this will not be considered as being a constructive…
Hey, no need to apologize. It's relevant to the topic at hand and you've just given me, and quite likely some other folks, a series to check out. That's hardly something worth apologizing over :)
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#58Turning people into walking video surveillance systems since 2013. I'll try to avoid people wearing these glasses.
You know, in public places there are going to be lots of eyeballs recording images directly into human brains. Most of these people will quickly forget about you if you don't do anything unusual, of course, but there's always a chance that there's someone around who recognizes you. I'd say it's always best not to assume you have privacy in any public place.
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#59Turning people into walking video surveillance systems since 2013. I'll try to avoid people wearing these glasses.
And when similar capabilities are built into less obvious glasses? What about contacts? At what point will you have decided that since everyone is on camera at all times in public, from someone's camera, it just doesn't matter?
We're all going to have to get used to being sousveilled.
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#60Hope it's not too offtopic. PR 101: Facebook launches Search Engine? Better tell something tech-pundits love to make them talk about us.
Is anyone really even talking about the Facebook thing? I actually had to Google it just to find out about it after reading your post. Even after reading about it I couldn't care less. Facebook already has a search, this is just some types of analytics for your friends, meh...
They were actually talking about it on NPR this morning.