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Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by dwiel »

Symmetry wrote: post #57
teej wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

200k miles is nothing. Over 8 billion vehicle miles are spent per DAY in the US. One person is killed for every 75 million miles driven. 200k miles isn't enough to test every terrain, under every weather condition, in every lighting, etc. There's too many variables in the equation. The Google car won't be truly safe until it has logged 1000x miles.

Its not that Google's automated cars haven't been in an fatal crash, its that they haven't been in a crash at all. The US _crash rate_ is a bit over 5 per million miles traveled, you you would expect about one crash in the 200k miles already covered if it was a human driver. The circumstances probably aren't identical, but what evidence we have suggests that these automated vehicles are at least comparably safe to a…

If we expect 1 crash per 200k mi, and the car has driven 200k mi, the evidence we have has sample size 1 ...

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by daralthus »

jacquesm wrote: post #37

I can see a great use of this for technical work on hardware that requires huge amounts of documentation (say aircraft maintenance). The glasses the way they're designed are smart, not in between but rather in a fixed spot and only a part of the field of view. I definitely wouldn't want a computer screen between my eyes and 'the real world' in normal day to day life. Believing what my eyes see is important to me and…

On the opposite side they could have made not another display, but a whole new tool. A new interface for manipulating dynamic content. Preferably with your hands. Eliminating objects, laptops, touch displays...

However there are some clear points why did they choose this path:

- they only needed to make the display tech. Everything other could come later.

- the lifelogging aspect could get hyped, making the whole thing sexy.

But still I am a bit dissapointed, now let's jump on hand and object recognition!

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by jasonlotito »

trothamel wrote: post #60
jasonlotito wrote: post #55

What this will provide for disabled and autistic people is amazing. It's too easy to get caught up in the "social sharing" part of this and forget that something like this can really help change people's lives. Edit: To expand a bit, take an autistic adult that wants to do something, like go to the movies. It's simple for us, we wash up, get dressed, go outside, go down the straight, hope on the 132 Bus for 3 stops,…

I suspect that this will be a huge benefit to deaf people as well, once speech recognition works well enough.

The biggest benefit of this is it's inconspicuous nature. they are glasses. They aren't big cumbersome devices, and they aren't phones that you have to carry around in one hand to use. They're apart of you like no other device you carry.

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by eli »

huskyr wrote: post #43
artursapek wrote: post #24

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Next to no choice? You're saying people will just all want this by default? I think most people will want to try this, myself included. But personally I draw the line here and I think many others will. I would never want to own a pair. This will be a niche product for those people who already use Bluetooth headsets, who are a minority.

"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." ;) http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...

The original iPod was lame. It had a nice UI, but you had to already own a Mac with Firewire to even use it. But Apple kept iterating, ported iTunes to Windows, etc.

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by doktrin »

Symmetry wrote: post #57
teej wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

200k miles is nothing. Over 8 billion vehicle miles are spent per DAY in the US. One person is killed for every 75 million miles driven. 200k miles isn't enough to test every terrain, under every weather condition, in every lighting, etc. There's too many variables in the equation. The Google car won't be truly safe until it has logged 1000x miles.

Its not that Google's automated cars haven't been in an fatal crash, its that they haven't been in a crash at all. The US _crash rate_ is a bit over 5 per million miles traveled, you you would expect about one crash in the 200k miles already covered if it was a human driver. The circumstances probably aren't identical, but what evidence we have suggests that these automated vehicles are at least comparably safe to a…

You can't be serious. The evidence may support it, but the evidence is incredibly limited.

Can you imagine the potential liability Google faces if they try to bring this to market without having done due diligence? This is a car, not an iPad.

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by DanBC »

I want face recognition. No more "Hello er, ah, hello! How are you?" moments.

I also want a version that shoots laser beams into my eye.

(http://slashdot.org/articles/99/04/15/2058223_F.shtml)

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3647437.stm)

Combined with a chording keyboard (Frogpad (except they don't seem to be making them anymore) or "The Twiddler" and I can be happy when commuting.

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by joejohnson »

joejohnson wrote: post #32
nkassis wrote: post #28

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Well treating your users like guinea pigs can back fire. Look at Siri. There seems to be a lot of frustrated users, some even going as far as lawsuits. That model doesn't always work.

Siri is great. Almost 90% of iPhone 4S users use Siri once a month. http://www.macnews.com/2012/03/26/87-iphone-4s-owners-use-si... http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/03/26/90-percent-siri-user... Siri isn't perfect, but it's a great start. Apple will almost certainly improve Siri in the next iteration of iOS.

Why is this being downvoted?

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by Symmetry »

dwiel wrote: post #61
Symmetry wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its not that Google's automated cars haven't been in an fatal crash, its that they haven't been in a crash at all. The US _crash rate_ is a bit over 5 per million miles traveled, you you would expect about one crash in the 200k miles already covered if it was a human driver. The circumstances probably aren't identical, but what evidence we have suggests that these automated vehicles are at least comparably safe to a…

If we expect 1 crash per 200k mi, and the car has driven 200k mi, the evidence we have has sample size 1 ...

We only have a sample size of one for the 1 crash per 200k miles case. So the evidence that these cars are actually _better_ than humans is non-existent. However, the evidence against the 1 crash per 100k miles case where the car is no longer comparable to human error rates is at least suggestive. And the evidence against the 1 crash per 20k miles case is actually pretty decent. I chose my words carefully.
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