Posted on 11/15/2014 2:19:02 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
(Reuters) - After two years of popping up at high-profile events sporting Google Glass, the gadget that transforms eyeglasses into spy-movie worthy technology, Google co-founder Sergey Brin sauntered bare-faced into a Silicon Valley red-carpet event on Sunday.
He'd left his pair in the car, Brin told a reporter. The Googler, who heads up the top-secret lab which developed Glass, has hardly given up on the product -- he recently wore his pair to the beach.
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Turns out they aren’t that cool. Really the tech’s just not ready yet. Give it another leap or two.
Glassholes!
Well they did a bit more than that. But they ran into the same problem the smart watches are having, it’s another interface for the phone in your pocket. They need to actually replace the phone to really be something.
They were killed in part by their recording feature. I will not approach a glasshole, and most certainly will not talk to them until the gadget is safely turned off and removed. It's my choice.
Being a relatively peaceful person, I will not hit a glasshole for him merely existing near me; however plenty of people, especially in drinking establishments, and especially in various states of inebriation, may not feel so constrained.
The gadget may find widespread use in the industry, where it can be operated for a well defined purpose and without a threat to privacy (there is little of that at work, and you don't wear it away from your station.) Businesses will not want to stream anything to Google, and they will not even enable the camera, as there is rarely a need to stream video in real time - except surgeons, for example, who teach others or are monitored by their teachers. A mechanic, for example, could enjoy an easily visible, large drawing of the device in the virtual screen of the GG. Most of the data would be coming into the GG. Even when specifics of the job (assembly of high value, high cost of error items, like space hardware) require recording, one could record on an SD Flash card - there is absolutely no reason to transmit the video over a radio link. Same applies to police officers. If the recordings have limited access, there is not as much threat to privacy as when they are streamed to Google.
No, the record feature only bothers people who haven’t been paying attention to how the world works now. My favorite “glass” incidents involve people confronting the wearer for possibly recording them WHILE recording the whole incident on THEIR phones. We are in the post privacy world, if you are in public you ARE being recorded, by multiple items, and if you do anything even a little interesting it’ll land on youtube.
As soon as it can replace the phone rather than supplement it they’ll be a hit. Also it’ll help if the supplement prescription glasses rather than replace.
The cameras didn’t stream to google. They just sent it to your phone, where it would then go where ever you had told your phone to put data. That stream to google thing was just a myth. Although of course, since it’s part of a smartphone, there’s an app for that, though again it doesn’t go to google.
If the head of the project didn't even see any value of having them there for a safari (to record video/images of animals) then that tells me they're really not that useful.
Then it's not a concern at all, because EVERYONE pays attention and knows in minute detail how the world works now :-)
We are in the post privacy world, if you are in public you ARE being recorded, by multiple items, and if you do anything even a little interesting it’ll land on youtube.
No surprise then that people hate being in public. Does wonders to the society.
The cameras didn’t stream to google. They just sent it to your phone, where it would then go where ever you had told your phone to put data. That stream to google thing was just a myth. Although of course, since it’s part of a smartphone, there’s an app for that, though again it doesn’t go to google.
Except that it goes to Livestream which is entirely not unlike Google.
It's all but impossible to figure out what the GG wearer is doing with the video of you that he is recording. You can be sure that he is not doing it for your benefit. Nobody benefits from being recorded forever. It may impact your job, your family, your children, your future - and there is no upside.
I see nothing wrong with them.
It’s just a combination of dolts freaking out thinking that it would be recording them 24/7, and Google sitting on it for months without releasing a consumer product that is pushing this past their window to really take advantage of the hype.
I would get one, but I’m not paying a ton for it.
Why would they be useful for taking images/videos of a safari? I am sure the resolution is far worse than the low end DSLR.
another Segway.
People should pay attention. Folks have been warning about the growing level of surveillance in our world since the 80s. And nobody bothered to pay attention to them until suddenly glasses could record them. I got no sympathy for people being recorded by four cameras whining about one of them, look around, even after the glass wearer puts his away you’re STILL BEING RECORDED, just not by him.
Important part of your link “CAN”, like I said, there’s an app for that. Any smartphone CAN livestream to various place, with an app, which all those places have.
And your last paragraph applies just as much to smartphones as GG. They all have cameras, and that guy sitting across from you fiddling with his phone MIGHT be playing Candy Crush, or he might be streaming you.
You ARE being recorded forever. Surveillance cameras, dash cams, traffic cams, smartphones. None of this changed with GG, all that happened is that a bunch of people kind of noticed. But only kind of, because they only focus on the glasses and never bother to notice they were already being recorded.
Only problem was, you looked like a total dork on a Segway and no self-respecting person would ride one.
Same issue that Google Glass seems to have.
It takes HD video, which would (I would think) be useful in conjunction with a DSLR. Plus, If I were lead of that project I would try to get some video with it to show off the capabilities.
I had two cameras with me, but do to the limited number of hands I have I could only use one at a time. Google Glass, in theory, would allow me to use both at the same time.
I do a little bit of hunting now and then. I can tell you that if you can record an animal with GG, that animal is a bear, and he is about to eat you. Anything else is a speck in a distance.
Hunters use very special recording setups to photograph animals. A homemade setup consists of a telescope camera mount (Orion) and a camera that can do photo or video. It's a bulky and complicated setup, and you have to use the camera's LCD to aim the rifle. The camera looks through the telescopic sight, that's why it can capture faraway targets. The GG has a ridiculously bad lens, and as such it would be hard pressed to see a coyote twenty yards away. This sample image (not a full res, though) depicts dogs three yards away from the GG, and even at that distance they are not clearly seen. People across the road, below the flag, cannot be recognized. You need to have a pretty good optical instrument - a lens or a telescopic sight - for it to be usable in hunting.
Oh well. Anyway, here are my safari pics:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lightcraftstudio/sets/72157647399584268/
I think Google Glass is the Ed Hardy Shirts of today
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