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Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by bitdestroyer »

sambomillo wrote: post #76
zoba wrote: post #23

I'm not entirely sure of the capabilities of Glass. For instance, battery life and an ability to persistently have the camera on and displaying an overlay for extended periods seems difficult. Some of the Glass ideas I like but haven't heard much discussion over: - Facial recognition with a little popup over people's heads with their name. Never forget someone's name - Link in with Facebook or your calendar to have p…

Is there an augmented reality aspect to these? I got the impression that there was not, that it was simply a little area in the corner of your field of vision where it would display things.

I believe that's what I heard as well. If I remember correctly, I think Robert Scoble said something to the effect of "It's like having a Nexus 7 in the corner of your vision." Apparently he's writing a book for Google Glass and has used them as part of the deal.

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by duaneb »

r0s wrote: post #90
zoba wrote: post #23

I'm not entirely sure of the capabilities of Glass. For instance, battery life and an ability to persistently have the camera on and displaying an overlay for extended periods seems difficult. Some of the Glass ideas I like but haven't heard much discussion over: - Facial recognition with a little popup over people's heads with their name. Never forget someone's name - Link in with Facebook or your calendar to have p…

I can't think of a single feature here that wouldn't be better using existing technology on cellphones. Having these things always in your line of vision and no real input options sounds awful.

> Facial recognition with a little popup over people's heads with their name. Never forget someone's name

> I can't think of a single feature here that wouldn't be better using existing technology on cellphones.

It would be rather awkward to take out your phone and take a picture of someone.

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

#93

Post by duaneb »

Reedx wrote: post #88
joezydeco wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Second credit goes to the first guy kicked out of a casino for wearing one of these.

What about when they look just like regular glasses? And more so when they become contacts?

Well, it's democratized cheating, so the playing field is still level. I think people would just adapt.

Either that or casinos would change their games.

Anyway, you can already do card counting via computer pretty easily at a casino if you think about it--I'm pretty sure they don't care enough to stop you as long as you aren't obvious and you aren't robbing them.

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by aharrison »

Sunlis wrote: post #77
zoba wrote: post #23

I'm not entirely sure of the capabilities of Glass. For instance, battery life and an ability to persistently have the camera on and displaying an overlay for extended periods seems difficult. Some of the Glass ideas I like but haven't heard much discussion over: - Facial recognition with a little popup over people's heads with their name. Never forget someone's name - Link in with Facebook or your calendar to have p…

> Have an alternate reality game with digital objects people can place/write on. Only Glass users can see the teddy bear in the corner, and only google glass users can see the giant graffiti wall where people sign their name. There's a small team at Google working on a game that uses the real world as its map, Ingress[0]. I haven't been able to get access to it yet (typical Google closed beta), but from what I've see…

Slightly off-topic: I managed to snag an invite and play around with ingress a bit and I have to say, as a game, it is pretty terrible. You have to find portals, get within a few dozen meters, and then interact with them on a cool down. If there are no portals in your area, there is literally nothing to do in it.

It looks like it was designed as an excuse for people to walk around with their GPS enabled and take pictures of "interesting" places. Which is too bad because the concept is kind of cool, but without any actual playability outside of these key locations...what's to keep me playing?

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by neonkiwi »

duaneb wrote: post #93
Reedx wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about when they look just like regular glasses? And more so when they become contacts?

Well, it's democratized cheating, so the playing field is still level. I think people would just adapt. Either that or casinos would change their games. Anyway, you can already do card counting via computer pretty easily at a casino if you think about it--I'm pretty sure they don't care enough to stop you as long as you aren't obvious and you aren't robbing them.

Either that or casinos would change their games.

Captcha playing card decks, perhaps?

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

#96

Post by neonkiwi »

duaneb wrote: post #93
Reedx wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about when they look just like regular glasses? And more so when they become contacts?

Well, it's democratized cheating, so the playing field is still level. I think people would just adapt. Either that or casinos would change their games. Anyway, you can already do card counting via computer pretty easily at a casino if you think about it--I'm pretty sure they don't care enough to stop you as long as you aren't obvious and you aren't robbing them.

Either that or casinos would change their games.

Captcha playing card decks, perhaps?

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

#97

Post by uncoder0 »

joejohnson wrote: post #85

It would be nice if they would release some specs like battery life and resolution and weight and memory and capacity.

The explorer edition is not going to be the same as the commercial edition. This is a developer only release so the specs are bound to change and are not quite as important, imo.

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by jff »

r0s wrote: post #90
zoba wrote: post #23

I'm not entirely sure of the capabilities of Glass. For instance, battery life and an ability to persistently have the camera on and displaying an overlay for extended periods seems difficult. Some of the Glass ideas I like but haven't heard much discussion over: - Facial recognition with a little popup over people's heads with their name. Never forget someone's name - Link in with Facebook or your calendar to have p…

I can't think of a single feature here that wouldn't be better using existing technology on cellphones. Having these things always in your line of vision and no real input options sounds awful.

The input consists of voice commands and a trackpad on the side of the frame. It's not like you can't turn off the screen.

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

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Post by jff »

tocomment wrote: post #80

I'd love to see this app for it. I call it real life screen sharing! Take any task you need to do; say change a tire. You post a request to the internet for help. Someone agrees to help you. Then they see on their screen what you are seeing through the glasses. They can talk you through doing whatever you need to do, and perhaps even point to places on the screen and it will highlight that area in your view screen. T…

http://www.ce.rit.edu/research/projects/2009_fall/Wearable_C...

Re: Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month

#100

Post by NegativeK »

Symmetry wrote: post #58
lovamova wrote: post #46

Turning people into walking video surveillance systems since 2013. I'll try to avoid people wearing these glasses.

You know, in public places there are going to be lots of eyeballs recording images directly into human brains. Most of these people will quickly forget about you if you don't do anything unusual, of course, but there's always a chance that there's someone around who recognizes you. I'd say it's always best not to assume you have privacy in any public place.

There's a very, very large difference between eyeballs on a person and wide-scale archived surveillance. The Supreme Court ruling against warrantless GPS trackers on cars (whereas warrantless 24-hour surveillance is okay) is an outstanding example, and that one ignores the fact that human memory is pretty crappy when it comes to evidence.

That being said, I think widespread cameras are simply something people are an inevitability that people are going to have to get used to, warts and all.

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