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Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by TillE »

blhack wrote: post #40
jff wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think they look pretty sharp. I especially like the blue color, although it definitely stands out a lot--it's just nice to see a product that isn't glossy black or bright white. The best thing, I think, would be for Google to offer insurance at some reasonable rate, so you can get a replacement if someone steals your device. I'd pay $50/year to protect my $1500 device.

Or have a remote kill switch on the thing. Make them useless if they've been stolen.

It makes a lot of sense to tie the device to a specific Google account, and not allow a transfer until that account owner deactivates it.

But that's something they'd want to start advertising fairly soon. No point in having a doomsday device if you don't tell the world about it.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by TillE »

erroca wrote: post #39
ck2 wrote: post #29

Is it just me or is anyone else bothered by the uneven design where one side has the display and the other side does not. My mind wants the sides to be the same, they should put a fake one on the other side.

that would be a really stupid idea honestly. No offence.

Not really. Having all that gear on just one side looks kinda cyborg-y. Symmetric is more natural.

Also, think of the possibilities for crazy 3D stuff if you have displays on both eyes.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by theboywho »

Everyone keeps saying that it will be weird for people to wear such glasses. I don't think that wearing them is what's weird, I think talking to them is the weird stuff.

I mean phones have been around for ages and some people still don't feel confortable talking in them in public spaces.

Siri is another example, have you ever meet someone talking to Siri on the bus ? on the metro ? on the street ? Not me.

Do you imagine people yelling in the train "Ok glass, show me the weather" ?

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by dntrkv »

ck2 wrote: post #29

Is it just me or is anyone else bothered by the uneven design where one side has the display and the other side does not. My mind wants the sides to be the same, they should put a fake one on the other side.

I actually think they should have it mounted on just one side without the rest of the frame. If they can get it stable enough to hang off the side of your head without the ugly looking metal frame extending across the top, I would definitely wear it.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by TillE »

michael_h wrote: post #62
mtgx wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's far from proven. There have been a variety of inconclusive cell phone studies, but definitely none about having a 3G radio glued to the side of your head and active for most of the day.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by oftenwrong »

speeder wrote: post #28

" Think of it this way — if you get a text message or have an incoming call when you’re walking down a busy street, there are something like two or three things you have to do before you can deal with that situation. Most of them involve you completely taking your attention off of your task at hand: walking down the street. With Glass, that information just appears to you, in your line of sight, ready for you to take…

If you are able to, try disabling notifications on your phone.

I predict there will be regulation of hudphone use, especially where the operation of vehicles is concerned. A notification pop-up sapping a person's concentration at the wrong moment could be dangerous.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by dntrkv »

hudell wrote: post #32

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

That's one of the more important factors you have to consider when creating a device that you want to market to the general public. Tons of people, don't wear bluetooth headsets because of how bad they look. Sure there are some headsets that look decent, but the headsets already have a certain label associated with them. Wearing them is not cool. Google has to really do this right from the start or else Glass will just be another gadget that only geeks wear.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by pasbesoin »

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…

If you want a "professional's" speculation on this, read David Brin's "Earth". It's several years old, now, but this type of technology is one of the topics it took in fairly head on fashion, if also somewhat incidental to the main plot.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by ayla »

jonheller wrote: post #24

What distracted me the most was not the glasses, but the weird gazing into the distance look that he did when "reading" the glasses. Kind of disturbing.

Exactly, I felt weird looking at the picture. It looks like someone totally stiffening up for a pose, so unnatural.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by huhtenberg »

huggah wrote: post #50
huhtenberg wrote: post #30

Google should really make a camera-less version of the Glass. Portable eye-level display is insanely useful. But if it's burdened with something that is viewed by many as a source of privacy concerns, it would just hinder the adoption. It will make the Glass banned from corporate environments, planes and basically every place that has "no cameras" signs. Like supermarkets.

Every single person I have talked to who has used glass for more than a few days has found the instant camera to be the most compelling feature of Glass. The author of this article did as well! In that context, I can't see how it makes sense to offer a camera-less version, at least not at launch.

> Every single person I have talked to who has used glass for more than a few days

Are you on the project Glass team or something? :)

Have these persons commented on the actual display quality? The resolution, the color depth and so on. There's suspiciously ZERO in-use shots of the display as seen by the wearer. Makes you wonder why.

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