Project Glass ( Google )

[Viin]

How about a cheap-er version?

http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

(Looks like it did go open source as mentioned in the video: http://code.google.com/p/sixthsense/)

[Lakov_Sanite]

I'm looking forward to a new career as a decker.

[Lucas]

Google Glass now entered what they call an "open beta". Glass are now available to everyone ('til the product is out of stock) as long as they're over 18 U.S. residents:

https://plus.google.com/+GoogleGlass/posts/QLD88fE7qmE

https://www.google.com/glass/start/how-to-get-one/

Oh yeah, the price: $1500

Pay to "win"!!! 

[Hawkbit]

I actually like the concept.  $1500 is too steep; I'm in the ~$200 camp.  It also needs to be thinner.

I find the gnashing of teeth over this thing interesting, especially the 'glasshole' term.  Some iteration of wearable computing will be the norm in 10 years and having it right at eye level with no hands needed seems like the right way to do it.  Current cell phones do more, yet people are scared to shit over this thing invading privacy. 

People are funny animals.

[MahrinSkel]

I actually like the concept.  $1500 is too steep; I'm in the ~$200 camp.  It also needs to be thinner.

I find the gnashing of teeth over this thing interesting, especially the 'glasshole' term.  Some iteration of wearable computing will be the norm in 10 years and having it right at eye level with no hands needed seems like the right way to do it.  Current cell phones do more, yet people are scared to shit over this thing invading privacy. 

People are funny animals.

Yeah, Glass is way too high-ticket, but there are some others coming out in the $250-500 range that look very good (some of which are better integrated with frames for prescription lenses for us Luddites that don't want our corneas blasted with lasers).  A lot of the 'glasshole' stuff stems from the way Google has promoted this, almost specifically looking for people who would be as insufferable as possible about having them.

People are vaguely uncomfortable with the reality that they are on-camera nearly all the time while out of their homes (or in them, f they have XBox), and this is a comparatively safe way to push back against the inevitable.

--Dave

[01101010]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/14/google-glass-price_n_5322986.html

Yeah... I'll wait. 

[Merusk]

I actually like the concept.  $1500 is too steep; I'm in the ~$200 camp.  It also needs to be thinner.

I find the gnashing of teeth over this thing interesting, especially the 'glasshole' term.  Some iteration of wearable computing will be the norm in 10 years and having it right at eye level with no hands needed seems like the right way to do it.  Current cell phones do more, yet people are scared to shit over this thing invading privacy. 

People are funny animals.

It's more obvious when someone with a smart phone is filming you.

Also the screen nature of the thing DOES provide a psychological barrier where people delve in to much more narcissistic modes. You're not insulting a water, you're watching a TV show where you're the clever hero.  You have the blog & video diaries to prove it. Those are the glassholes and each one documented has deserved the term.

People aren't socially caught up to smartphones and just using those they can lock themselves away into a fantasy world of echo chambers and personal hero fantasy.  It's only going to get more difficult from here.

[Hawkbit]

I suspect I'd use it differently than it's intended for.  Personally, I'd use it to leverage information around me.  Where are things?  What is that?  Access information.  References.

Things I don't care to do:  Blog or take videos, except maybe something about my kid being cute.  I don't want to share it with the world, though.  I have no desire to use it 'socially'.  Rather, I want a wearable computer to interact with my surroundings more efficiently. 

[Rendakor]

I suspect I'd use it differently than it's intended for.  Personally, I'd use it to leverage information around me.  Where are things?  What is that?  Access information.  References.

Things I don't care to do:  Blog or take videos, except maybe something about my kid being cute.  I don't want to share it with the world, though.  I have no desire to use it 'socially'.  Rather, I want a wearable computer to interact with my surroundings more efficiently. 

This. I want a HUD with more info IRL. The price still has a ways to come down too, and I need to be able to get them in prescription.

[Yegolev]

I approve of the new term "glasshole" mostly because it sounds great.

[Trippy]

It's an officially sanctioned term too (scroll to bottom):

https://sites.google.com/site/glasscomms/glass-explorers

[Lucas]

I suspect I'd use it differently than it's intended for.  Personally, I'd use it to leverage information around me.  Where are things?  What is that?  Access information.  References.

Things I don't care to do:  Blog or take videos, except maybe something about my kid being cute.  I don't want to share it with the world, though.  I have no desire to use it 'socially'.  Rather, I want a wearable computer to interact with my surroundings more efficiently.  

This. I want a HUD with more info IRL. The price still has a ways to come down too, and I need to be able to get them in prescription.

Same here, I would use it exclusively as a HUD for any info about my surroundings (sightseeing, POIs, fiancée enemy location, ammo left, etc.). Not interested about videos or social sharing.

[KallDrexx]

Unfortunately, I've heard it's pretty worthless for augmented reality purposes so far.

[Ingmar]

The battery life needs to be much, much, much longer before this is anything but a conversation-starting toy.

[Stormwaltz]

before this is anything but a conversation-stopping toy.

FIFY

[Margalis]

The main purpose of Glass is to make it easy to quickly identify douches.

[Yegolev]

Unfortunately, I've heard it's pretty worthless for augmented reality purposes so far.

For now.  Eventually this is what happens:

[Lucas]

Unfortunately, I've heard it's pretty worthless for augmented reality purposes so far.

For now.  Eventually this is what happens:

Like I said in another message on this topic: "I always asked for this" 

[Goumindong]

Unfortunately, I've heard it's pretty worthless for augmented reality purposes so far.

For now.  Eventually this is what happens:

Aside: Duff is/was a pretty cool guy. Sponsored my little league baseball team for one or two years

[Quinton]

Unfortunately, I've heard it's pretty worthless for augmented reality purposes so far.

The display technology is not at all optimal for AR -- you get a reasonably sharp display in the upper right of your field of vision in your right eye -- you sort of have to glance up and to the right to read it. (Thus, for anyone who's worried that they'll never know if a Glass user is not paying attention to them, no fear, it's quite obvious both from the loss of eye contact and from the fact that you can see the display light up through the backside of the optics assembly).

In addition to sufficient battery life for more serious "always on" use, I think you'd want display technology that can drop annotations anywhere in your field of view for "true" AR applications.

[Samwise]

It'd also need to track your eye movements in order to overlay information onto what you were actually seeing.  Or be directly in/on the eye (i.e. contact lens or some kind of implant).  We're still a little ways off from Rainbows End.

[Ironwood]

How are we on the Jarvis Hud ?

[Surlyboi]

[Quinton]

I'm still really skeptical of gesture-in-the-air interfaces -- lack of useful tactile feedback is really limiting.

[Ingmar]

I'm still really skeptical of gesture-in-the-air interfaces -- lack of useful tactile feedback is really limiting.

Yeah. Something like a sign language interpreter is far more likely than magical menus that you can use your hands on without being some kind of master mime, and at that point, how much convenience are you actually gaining?

[Yegolev]

The funny thing is that people want to make air keyboards but forget that interfaces drive design.  Please see Console v PC.

[Merusk]

But.. but... but it's so cool in all the sci-fi movies! 

I'm just happy to see there's people 'round my way of thinking about them.  Last few times its come up I recall more were defensive of the idea.  I still think we'll find a more intuitive interface than keyboard and mouse, but it's not hovering or laser keyboards.

[penfold]

Glasshole is a glasshole

[Hawkbit]

I have no problem that one person had a negative experience and left a poor review of her experience.  For her, she had a terrible experience at the restaurant and it is only fair that she let others know of her experience.

The problem is that Google's ratings system doesn't consider that most reviewers didn't actually eat there.  That's a faulty review system and it invalidates Google's ratings to decide on restaurants. 

Quality ratings systems require content moderation.  Also, any article with the term 'glasshole' in the title is clickbait.

[Margalis]

Why is someone politely asking you to remove Google Glass because it makes other customers uneasy a "terrible experience"?

Just remove the glasses you entitled fuck.

She didn't have a terrible experience. She didn't have any experience. She threw a tantrum and left before experiencing anything because she refused to stop making patrons uncomfortable. This is like giving a movie theater a bad review because they asked you to not text during the movie.

[Rendakor]

At least her review is her own, misguided opinion. Getting her glasshole friends to also give negative reviews is just a dick move.

[Bunk]

Did any of you actually read the article? I'd paste the exact text of the girls post, but they didn't transcribe it - almost as if they new it was such a non-thing they didn't want me to be able to cut and paste it.

Seriously, she made a post that stated she was asked to remove them because other customers expressed privacy concerns in the past, so she left. Then she stated that that has never happened to her before. Nothing more, no mighty call to arms, or angry rant, no comment on the restaurant at all. Yes, its pathetic that her followers then 1 starred a place they never ate at, but trying to say this blogger "incited" that reaction is a bit much.

[Phildo]

Her actual review says "Got denied service a Sunday afternoon for wearing Google Glass."  Based on the article, she wasn't actually denied anything, just asked to take the glasses off.  I get the feeling that she probably could have refused to take the Glass off and that would have been the end of it, rather than walking out.

[01101010]

Did any of you actually read the article? I'd paste the exact text of the girls post, but they didn't transcribe it - almost as if they new it was such a non-thing they didn't want me to be able to cut and paste it.

Seriously, she made a post that stated she was asked to remove them because other customers expressed privacy concerns in the past, so she left. Then she stated that that has never happened to her before. Nothing more, no mighty call to arms, or angry rant, no comment on the restaurant at all. Yes, its pathetic that her followers then 1 starred a place they never ate at, but trying to say this blogger "incited" that reaction is a bit much.

And yet the restaurant itself has cameras mounted on the wall.

And really this just calls into question the ratings system for restaurants, not the establishment itself. I never rely on yelp or any of those things because trolls are everywhere and can knock down ratings on a whim. Kinda like the reviews on shopping sites. They can be helpful, but not reliable.