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Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by skore »

blhack wrote: post #44
stevewilhelm wrote: post #33

I would like my next car Google Glass enabled. It could display turn by turn directions, warn of upcoming traffic, and let me know what services are available at the next exit. I can also foresee Google Glass being very useful for complex, domain specific tasks that require your hands: surgery, automobile repair, home construction, cooking, learning to play an instrument, dealing cards, sowing, tying flies etc.

Your car doesn't need anything to do this. This functionality is all already party of android.

Except for the HUD, which is the entire point of Glass.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by EvanAnderson »

mehrdad wrote: post #51
PeterisP wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you value privacy, you don't want me looking at your private stuff. Don't show it to me or ask me to leave. But if you allow me to look at you, then I can remember what I see. I am allowed to remember everything that I see and hear, every single last detail, forever, and without requesting permission from anyone. If I have trouble remembering, I may write it down or draw pictures of what I saw and heard, and also…

And tell me again why customer service agent informs me that my voice is being recorded? I don't thing he/she just wants to be polite.

Because the law says they have to. In some settings, privacy and wiretapping laws will apply to using Glass. In some other settings, they won't. Different US states have different laws governing the use of audio and video recording hardware in private versus public settings.

Glass is going to force new discussion about one-party versus two-party consent to recordings. It's a conversation that needs to happen.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by EvanAnderson »

warfangle wrote: post #60
mehrdad wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And tell me again why customer service agent informs me that my voice is being recorded? I don't thing he/she just wants to be polite.

Because they're required to by law, as telephone conversations are not considered public. Walking down the street, on the other hand--

Some US states have audio recording laws that can still apply even "walking down the street". Look at some of the cases of individuals attempting to record police who were charged under wiretapping laws.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by mxfh »

Can't offer any predictions about Google glass, yet I think the Surface analogy just falls flat. It's not about Microsoft's 10k surface it's about failing to get the critical momentum going in the mass market.

There was such a thing called the Tablet PC[1] introduced by Microsoft in 2001, you could get one for below 1500 USD in 2003†. They were marketed as a niche product if at all. For about a decade they were the only available portable devices that offered decent screen resolutions/pixel densities. The software was partly premature yet mostly usable. Some things just take time to mature to be seen as marketable to the consumer market.

In case if screen resolutions just too much time, its just kind of sad that you always seem to have to wait for Apple to push those technologies into bigger markets (touch interfaces/ high resolution displays) it's good to see that there finally is some competition is this area (Google Pixel, Retina Screens) and operation systems with with resolution flexible UI's are finally the norm.

† got a one back then which is still doing its fanless & meanwhile stylusless work as a trusty small home server.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by joedev »

The image shown in this article does a good job of highlighting the usefulness of Glass. It's not just a heads up display. It's the smarts of knowing where you are, what you are doing, what you plan to do in order to provide relevant information in an automatic and unobtrusive way.

"Oh, I see you're at the airport and you have tickets on flight 644. Here's some useful departure info." Instead of finding a departure screen or tap-tap-tapping on your phone - it's just there.

http://img.svbtle.com/dcurtis_24516029389500_raw.jpg

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by dougk16 »

The voice interface and the forced fashion statement will probably greatly contribute to the death of this product as it stands, but I think it's the next necessary step to something truly revolutionary.

I would like the next step to solve these two issues using something like subvocalization to replace voice commands, and having more say in the fashion statement, so you can custom order your Glass to make it look (more) like you're wearing normal reading glasses, or sunglasses, or whatever. The latter is just a brute force matter of getting hardware sizes down even more over the coming years.

Then eventually we'll just splice the display into our optic nerves, and drive the interaction with our thoughts, and the borg takeover will be complete.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by skore »

czr80 wrote: post #63
bane wrote: post #13

If anybody wants to get a good idea where something like glass could go, read the Phaethon series starting with "The Golden Age". It's a bit of a tough read, but the author spent some serious time considering the implications of a civilization built around always wearing these kind of devices at all times. Glass acts like a layer on top of the real world, consider then that as the technology improves and the number o…

Out of curiosity, what happens when you walk into an "undesirable"?

Usually: Hollywood.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by EvanAnderson »

Cardeck1 wrote: post #27

The biggest problem with Google Glass is privacy.Anyone can record you without you knowing it. And it's not just walking down the street. There are so many bad scenarios. Usually we embrace new tech here but this device would bring privacy to a whole new level. Not to mention that Google is starting to be too powerful for our own good.

It seems to be an unpopular opinion, but what you see as the biggest problem I see as the most exciting feature (albeit Glass doesn't go far enough for my desires). I can't wait to see how machine learning can be applied to the corpus of audio and video recorded throughout my daily life. The idea that additional value can be "mined" from that data, retroactively, makes me even more excited.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by blhack »

untog wrote: post #55
blhack wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it isn't, it's just the first time that you're hearing about it because it's the first time that the tech has been pointed at your particular subset of consumer.

Alright, what other consumer products like Google Glass have been released?

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Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by _delirium »

untog wrote: post #55
blhack wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it isn't, it's just the first time that you're hearing about it because it's the first time that the tech has been pointed at your particular subset of consumer.

Alright, what other consumer products like Google Glass have been released?

I'm not sure whether it's similar enough, but the "Private Eye", a wearable, monocular heads-up display, had a bit of niche success when it was introduced in 1989. Here's a contemporary blurb from Popular Science: http://www.popsci.com/archive-viewer?id=dwEAAAAAMBAJ&pg=...
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