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Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by ryusage »

hudell wrote: post #32

Why do people care so much about how they will look with it? I couldn't care less about that.

Because most people care very much about social relationships, and like it or not, other people just naturally tend to be put off by things that look strange or unattractive. You might decide you genuinely don't care what anyone thinks of you, but realistically speaking that's a somewhat unusual stance.

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Post by michael_h »

mtgx wrote: post #49
rgbrgb wrote: post #6

Is there any reason to worry about brain cancer with this?

Probably not since it doesn't have a 3G radio, but not sure how safe or healthy the bone audio conduction is. I hope Google knows what they're doing there.

If it had a 3G radio, the cancer risk would be exactly the same.

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Post by terio »

I would love to be able to create apps for a device like glass. There could be many vertical applications for it. The ads don't provide any information regarding apps as they are focused in taking photos and videos, doing hangouts and interfacing Google.

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Post by saalweachter »

bsimpson wrote: post #12

I'm in the Explorer program, but practical issues like fashion/etiquette have had me reconsidering if I'd really be willing to spend money to put a computer on my face. This review has gone a long way towards assuaging those concerns, but I wonder what they can do about anti-theft. Being pickpocketed on public transit is a very real concern in most cities with >500k people. Imagine how much easier it'd be to snatch a…

When the objects being stolen have GPS, wireless, and cameras, with even a modicum of well-designed anti-theft infrastructure it should really become criminally stupid to steal them.

It's kind of sad that you can steal a smart phone and get away with it.

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Post by md224 »

liber8 wrote: post #51

I'm not sure why I haven't seen this addressed yet, but doesn't the widespread use of something like Glass portend the dramatic fall of the prevalence of street crime? Widespread use of CCTV cameras are one thing, but millions of eye-level recording devices (presumably automatically beamed to the cloud at some point), would seem to me to be a major deterrent to all sorts of street crime. I can see this effecting not…

I think the concept of mass surveillance of one other has been a concern of wearable/ubiquitous computing for a while now. Google "sousveillance" for more writing on this.

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Post by naner »

bsimpson wrote: post #12

I'm in the Explorer program, but practical issues like fashion/etiquette have had me reconsidering if I'd really be willing to spend money to put a computer on my face. This review has gone a long way towards assuaging those concerns, but I wonder what they can do about anti-theft. Being pickpocketed on public transit is a very real concern in most cities with >500k people. Imagine how much easier it'd be to snatch a…

That depends (somewhat) on the usefulness of a stolen Glass device. They require a network to be useful, contain a GPS chip and so are easy to track down, and can likely be remotely disabled by Google.

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Post by oinksoft »

liber8 wrote: post #51

I'm not sure why I haven't seen this addressed yet, but doesn't the widespread use of something like Glass portend the dramatic fall of the prevalence of street crime? Widespread use of CCTV cameras are one thing, but millions of eye-level recording devices (presumably automatically beamed to the cloud at some point), would seem to me to be a major deterrent to all sorts of street crime. I can see this effecting not…

It's awful. For ages, we've worried about The Government mounting cameras everywhere until the only private space was one's own home, and away from windows at that. 1984 famously envisioned a world where this surveillance extended to the domicile, but even then it was stationary and had blind spots.

Seems that in the near future, there will be little need for any of this, and there will be no coercion; rather, most of us will vie for the most powerful, feature-loaded head-mounted camera.

That's not to say that such an invention can or will only be used for evil. But there's no denying that this is huge progress for anybody dreaming of global surveillance or something like it.

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Post by noarchy »

WestCoastJustin wrote: post #4

Avid sailor here, and I like to race, typical race is ~6 hours, but longer races too, 24-48 hours. We are continually evaluating, speed over ground, radios, depth, AIS for marine traffic, tide flow (current), GPS, charts, race course, etc. We have many devices that give us a picture of what is going on. I love the idea of Google Glass as a heads up display [1] for everyday people! Sure, we use a computer to compile m…

I was thinking that this will revolutionize cycling. Instead of looking down at your mounted cycling computer, you could simply have this built into your glasses (cyclists are almost always sporting sunglasses as it is). Speed, heart rate, cadence, wattage...all of this can be put in front of you, without the need to ever look down, which could increase safety.

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Post by rednukleus »

thedufer wrote: post #55
nodata wrote: post #27

Is that really the whole device, or is the processing done elsewhere, like a phone or something? (I admit I only skim read the article)

> losing data or experiencing slow data on a phone put the headset into a near-unusable state This makes me think that the voice processing is done server-side. I wouldn't be at all surprised by this; that's how Siri does it, and I would be amazed if they managed to fit good enough voice recognition into even a phone, let alone this tiny thing.

Google voice recognition can be done offline on phones now.
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