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Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by drzaiusapelord »

danso wrote: post #58
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…

Dashboard cams in Russia are ostensibly popular because they help document incidents of roadside violence/malfeasance http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/02/russian-dash-cams/

Aren't these a requirement for any Russian auto insurance?

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by conroe64 »

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…

Not to mention another instance of technology that will interfere with people's abilities to drive. Remember the epidemic of people texting while driving. Now imagine a device that allows you to do that, as well as surf the web, read the reviews of the movie/restaurant you're going to, check sports scores and stock prices, etc. all at the tip of your tongue, and not made illegal to do so while driving, yet.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by drzaiusapelord »

theboywho wrote: post #73

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 imag…

I really think the wearable glasses format is doomed. Its just clunky and lacks style.

I was just watching a video of Sony's newest smartwatch and how it integrated with Android. I could see myself wearing that. Glass? Probably not. I'm not even someone who is into fashion. I just want crap on my face and, my god, it looks super dorky.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by drcube »

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…

Actually, I think privacy concerns could be alleviated by something like this. It's just so much information, getting anything useful is like taking a sip from a fire hose.

Imagine your hypothetical break in is in downtown Manhattan. Do you really expect law enforcement to sift through video data of the hundreds of thousands of people who fit that profile? How would they know if someone's feed was missing? Basically, there's so much noise, the signal effectively gets lost.

Granted, big data applications could be brought to bear on the problem, but then it's the same cat and mouse game criminals and police have been playing forever.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by isaacwaller »

oinksoft wrote: post #67
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 o…

I disagree that the technology is currently dangerous as very few people would opt to allow the government to view their video feed. It is as you say - something right out of 1984 - and most people would recognize that and not give permission.

Unless the video is uploaded without the user's knowledge, I think we do not have to worry about government usage of these cameras.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by thedufer »

rednukleus wrote: post #69
thedufer wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

That's incredible. I will have to check this out.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by kzrdude »

huhtenberg wrote: post #80
huggah wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You can't really photograph it, it's so close to the eye.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by throa8923489 »

oinksoft wrote: post #67
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 o…

Reminds me of this talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG0KrT6pBPk by moxie. We thought we would get facism, instead we got social democracy.

We will be able to deal with this, though, using appropriate laws. Europe will certainly go down that route, the US will probably follow. For example, using the camera to take pictures or videos that are stored or shared (vs. just processed by some augmented reality algorithms) could enable a small lamp on the frame of the glasses. Just like a video recorder, but without the ability to (easily!) turn it off.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by yusefnapora »

isaacwaller wrote: post #85
oinksoft wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 o…

I disagree that the technology is currently dangerous as very few people would opt to allow the government to view their video feed. It is as you say - something right out of 1984 - and most people would recognize that and not give permission. Unless the video is uploaded without the user's knowledge, I think we do not have to worry about government usage of these cameras.

They wouldn't need to give permission to the government. "Get Glass today with 1TB free cloud storage. Access your precious memories from your phone, tablet or television!" Once it's in Google's cloud it's just a subpoena away.

Re: I used Google Glass

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Post by wklauss »

drcube wrote: post #84
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…

Actually, I think privacy concerns could be alleviated by something like this. It's just so much information, getting anything useful is like taking a sip from a fire hose. Imagine your hypothetical break in is in downtown Manhattan. Do you really expect law enforcement to sift through video data of the hundreds of thousands of people who fit that profile? How would they know if someone's feed was missing? Basically,…

A lot of security falls into that "firehose" analogy. Your door lock is relatively trivial to brute-force. What is preventing thieves from entering your house is that you live surrounded by other targets.

Problem with the Glass approach is that we now require police to sit through videos, but eventually it will be easier to mine all the data with algorithms, especially if we get better at facial recognition, etc...

Personally, i don't mind a glass-pervasive society. I worry about the fact that all the data goes around a single company's infrastructure and the fact that, for this specific company, hardware is a commodity and data is what they are after.

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