Project Glass ( Google )

[Mrbloodworth]

No, really: Project Glass

We think technology should work for you—to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don’t.

A group of us from Google

• started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment. We’re sharing this information now because we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input. So we took a few design photos to show what this technology could look like and created a video to demonstrate what it might enable you to do.

Please follow along as we share some of our ideas and stories. We’d love to hear yours, too. What would you like to see from Project Glass?

Project Glass: One day...

[01101010]

Please follow along as we share some of our ideas and stories. We’d love to hear yours, too. What would you like to see from Project Glass?

X-ray vision!

But seriously... this whole idea is 

[Mrbloodworth]

Honestly, I'm surprised we don't have something like this already. I guess miniaturization of the needed parts has allowed this to even be considered now.

[Furiously]

Remind me not to be a missing or exploited child or a fugitive in five to ten years.

[Engels]

The flip side

[Sky]

You know what I would like to see? A product that isn't a half-assed version of something that already exists; and actual privacy protection.

I'm so tired of google's bullshit schtick.

[Merusk]

Remind me not to be a missing or exploited child or a fugitive in five to ten years.

Only criminals and sneaks need to worry about privacy.  Why are you so nervous? You're a good person aren't you? What do you have to hide?   

It'll be just like cell phones in 20 years.  You're the weirdo for not having it, despite the litany of concerns/ complaints.   I'll remain the weirdo, thanks.

[01101010]

Remind me not to be a missing or exploited child or a fugitive in five to ten years.

Only criminals and sneaks need to worry about privacy.  Why are you so nervous? You're a good person aren't you? What do you have to hide?   

It'll be just like cell phones in 20 years.  You're the weirdo for not having it, despite the litany of concerns/ complaints.   I'll remain the weirdo, thanks.

I don't know... The whole bluetooth ear piece thing didn't really stick around for very long. I can see this going that route... since it is Google.

[Merusk]

Even if this doesn't stick (and, as you say it's Google so it's likely it won't) something similar will eventually.  Someone will come up with the one that will explode and turn into the RFID/ Chip Implant/ whatever.   

I was mocking people with my statement, but I brought this very idea up at work and that was the response I got from those only a few years younger than me.  "This is cool, and only criminals care if anyone has your info.  You're just a paranoid techophobe. It makes life so much easier."   Further discussion will just push this to politics, tho.

So yeah, cool tech but count me out.

[Chimpy]

You know what I would like to see? A product that isn't a half-assed version of something that already exists; and actual privacy protection.

I'm so tired of google's bullshit schtick.

Preach on brother.

[Soln]

You know what I would like to see? A product that isn't a half-assed version of something that already exists; and actual privacy protection.

I'm so tired of google's bullshit schtick.

Preach on brother.

+1

/irony

[Mrbloodworth]

I don't know... The whole bluetooth ear piece thing didn't really stick around for very long.

Wut?

[Teleku]

There's another product out there like this, and better, sky?

[01101010]

I don't know... The whole bluetooth ear piece thing didn't really stick around for very long.

Wut?

To spare the thread from its length...

[Malakili]

We believe technology should work for you — to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don't.

A team within our Google

• group started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment.

Get out of my way when I don't?  Anything that is popping a fucking incoming mail icon in my vision is in my way.  I don't even like to have my phone on anything but silent because I don't want to be bothered by phone calls.

Also, putting me back in the moment?  Could anything possible distract your attention from the moment more than this technology?

Still, I do expect this stuff will become normal eventually.

[Nevermore]

I'm sure this idea would make driving much safer.

[Stewie]

I could seriously see this kinda thing in contact lenses at some point.
Oh and throw me into the "Only criminals and sneaks need to worry about privacy."
I have a friend that is paranoid when an app on his phone wants gps access. I really cant be bothered to give a shit about stuff like that.

[Mrbloodworth]

I don't know... The whole bluetooth ear piece thing didn't really stick around for very long.

Wut?

PIC

To spare the thread from its length...

That does not mean no one uses them anymore.

[01101010]

I don't know... The whole bluetooth ear piece thing didn't really stick around for very long.

Wut?

PIC

To spare the thread from its length...

That does not mean no one uses them anymore.

And I am sure there are 1 or 2 people left on Buzz. And I am just poking at it because the marketing behind bluetooth earpieces made it out to be the next WILL HAVE - make driving safer! OMG no moar radiowave cancerof the head! No wires!!

Meh...Engels link forgot to include being in the car and watching all the advertisements pop up every few seconds... but hey, by then, google will drive your car for you right? 

[Segoris]

I'd like this sort of thing if it wasn't for the inevitable advertising that will come with it. Looking at that nice cup of coffee in your hand? Bam! Spammed with ads for more coffee, coffee filters, coffee mugs, and coffee pot makers over the next 10 minutes until you see a female walking by. Then you get spammed by So-and-So wants to chat! So-and-So2 wants to chat! Find singles! etc etc, which is then giving mixed signals when you see a guy walking by.....and so forth

[Ingmar]

I see shitloads of Bluetooth earpieces around.

[Teleku]

Uh, yeah, I think the bluetooth thing is going stronger than ever before currently.  Its everywhere I look when ever I'm, well, anywhere.

[Musashi]

Privacy is an illusion with or without computer goggles.  Let's not kid ourselves.  Given the option for on demand porn, the human condition is such that on demand porn will become reality.  Personally, that notion neither scares nor surprises me.  T'was the law of the sea, so to speak.

[Teleku]

On demand porn isn't a reality right now?

[CmdrSlack]

As more locations adopt distracted driving laws, bluetooth headsets will continue to be sold. I have one . . . somewhere. I really need to find it and its charger. The iPhone earbud headset sucks because the buds don't stay in my damn ears. Chicago has a handsfree while driving ordinance, so it blows when I am in the city on business and driving.

[CmdrSlack]

Privacy is an illusion with or without computer goggles.  Let's not kid ourselves.  Given the option for on demand porn, the human condition is such that on demand porn will become reality.  Personally, that notion neither scares nor surprises me.  T'was the law of the sea, so to speak.

Or, "so to spank."

[01101010]

As more locations adopt distracted driving laws, bluetooth headsets will continue to be sold. I have one . . . somewhere. I really need to find it and its charger. The iPhone earbud headset sucks because the buds don't stay in my damn ears. Chicago has a handsfree while driving ordinance, so it blows when I am in the city on business and driving.

Yeah but many cars have bluetooth speaker set ups already installed from the factory.

I guess in my part of the country, walking around with a bluetooth ear piece is still seen as dumb.

[Quinton]

Disclaimer: I don't work on this and am pretty highly skeptical of gargoyle type gear going mainstream any time soon (but this certainly seems more likely than the MIT Wearable Computing type stuff...)

I'm a bit puzzled on the privacy front -- the implications are not much different from those of modern smartphones.

I also find "Even if this doesn't stick (and, as you say it's Google so it's likely it won't)" kinda amusing -- sure not everything Google launches goes big, but mobile hardware... 850K new android devices activating daily doesn't sound like the total and utter failure everyone's been predicting since the platform was announced in 2007...

That said, I hope they build a model for people who wear glasses, because the one they're showing off doesn't look like it'll be useful for me unless I want to get contacts...

[Chimpy]

As more locations adopt distracted driving laws, bluetooth headsets will continue to be sold. I have one . . . somewhere. I really need to find it and its charger. The iPhone earbud headset sucks because the buds don't stay in my damn ears. Chicago has a handsfree while driving ordinance, so it blows when I am in the city on business and driving.

Last I heard there was a lot of pressure to ban cell phone use while driving period (even with hands free) in Illinois.

My new car has built in bluetooth. Now I have no use for my jackass headset except when I am walking places!

[Margalis]

Edit: Bashing google is too easy, eh.

China, "do no evil", Google Plus, privacy. Done.

[Merusk]

Disclaimer: I don't work on this and am pretty highly skeptical of gargoyle type gear going mainstream any time soon (but this certainly seems more likely than the MIT Wearable Computing type stuff...)

I'm a bit puzzled on the privacy front -- the implications are not much different from those of modern smartphones.

Oh you mean those devices that happily gather and compile a profile of you that's kept in the hands of the completely trustworthy corporate entity who has no reason to profit off of it?  Yeah, I don't have one of those, either.   

[Quinton]

Far be it from me to interfere with perfectly good tin-foil hattery with facts, but just in case someone's actually curious -- one can opt to not use a Google account with an Android device and sync nothing with Google services, install alternate apps for email, etc, and so on.  Location and backup services are further, individually, opt-outable (during or any time after setup) even if one does use other Google services.

My point was simply that the fundamental privacy issues around a connected device worn as glasses vs carried in your pocket are not significantly different (at least for the user), and that it surprised me that wearable computing should get such a strong "omg privacy" reaction.  (my primary reaction remains "aren't bluetooth headsets dorky enough?")

[Yegolev]

That said, I hope they build a model for people who wear glasses, because the one they're showing off doesn't look like it'll be useful for me unless I want to get contacts...

The blogosphere wants updates from cool people.  Nerds and poindexters need not apply.

[Sky]

Opt-out != opt-in.

[Mrbloodworth]

That said, I hope they build a model for people who wear glasses, because the one they're showing off doesn't look like it'll be useful for me unless I want to get contacts...

Yeah, i was thinking the same thing. I don't really see the current mock up working well with prescription glasses.


Oh oh oh! Maybe they will make a clip on version!