Thread: Google Glass

Google is overreaching on this one and chances are, this will be Vaporware.

Originally Posted by EarthInferno

Lol, I thought it was going to be a microchip implanted in your brain or eye, that is connected to the internet

They are coming out with contact lenses like that next. At least that is what a lot of people are looking towards. Implants into your brain that connect to the internet will probably happen, just not in the next few years. Brain chips are probably closer to 20 years away.

Originally Posted by Xei

What's 'driving'?

Damn, I was gonna post that.

So instead, I'll just post an invisibly cloaked Mercedes - though it seems mostly pointless to have an invisible car, the 'old technology' could be used to have a dynamic car colour or pattern/design.

Our infrastructure is too inept for something this radical.

Originally Posted by Alric

They are coming out with contact lenses like that next. At least that is what a lot of people are looking towards. Implants into your brain that connect to the internet will probably happen, just not in the next few years. Brain chips are probably closer to 20 years away.

You know, my brother is in the computer programming business and he said the exact same thing about brain chips. Remember that movie Existenz?

I have not seen that movie. Though we say brain chip now, but it probably will not be an actual chip. It will probably be swarms of nanobots and stuff, since the computers will be so small by then.

It will be very cool though, and everyone will probably be super smart.

Unless the military or health industry has use for it, then something largely novel won't be developed. That's my motto, and I'm sticking to it. ;p Nerdy fun stuff? Only nerds will make that. We need more nerds.

Nanobots - the military and health industry will definitely have use for that.

Nah, I'm not liking this. My eyes and memory work fine and there could be a sort of 'Big Brother' thing with this, you know the government hacking in and such. NAH MATE forget this. And what about lag? Besides most that stuff can be done on a phone and memory serves that purpose anyway, I thought it was cool but its way to close to the eyes (like staring at lights during SP) it's all a bit like Syndicate. Not for me.

If they can hack the glasses they could do the same thing with your phone. There is no reason at all to believe cell phones have any sort of better security than they will have.

Originally Posted by nina

What's that from? Some sort of cyberpunk?

i know but not neural control, it's just me being paro but this is not for me.

Originally Posted by Xei

...obviously, but they're very diminished. The majority of this social 'interaction' is banal rubbish. Do you really think taking a photo of your sandwich is more socially valuable than actually meeting somebody for food? Or sharing a youtube link on Facebook is more valuable than watching something together? Can you really forge deep emotional connections via text messages?

You just made me realise the reason threads on here like "post pictures of your food" are successful is because people are
trying to replace that sense of "real" interaction. Dude....

Originally Posted by Xei

The Google ad works by and large because the device is being used in a healthy way. But I don't really think the majority of people use modern social media like that.

I disagree with this, most things in that ad were horribly mundane, like what almost everybody uses social media for.
"checking in to a fucking gay ass hotdog stand somewhere" (or whatever it was).
That's what I didn't like about it. However, I can see its potential for good uses.

Originally Posted by nina

Well I'm talking more about specific things that it shows the guy using the product for. Example: walking into a bookstore and taking a moment to look up and read the signs about where a section is, or, god forbid, actually going to the information booth and asking where the book is, or any other means of figuring out, for yourself, where the book section you want is (if people don't learn to figure this stuff out on their own they are going to be lost little babies when their devices malfunction)...but with the device he just walks into the store and announces to the world what book he's looking for and it magically shows up in front of him riding a carriage of fat little floating elves with a latte...ok, not really...but, I just feel like there's something lazier about the way he is doing things. More convenient, maybe, more efficient, maybe, but lazier...in that, people need to learn to function, figure out, and find things on their own, without such a device, otherwise, what happens when it's gone? I'm talking about, for the generations to come who are raised on things such as this and become completely dependent on them. Also, brain cancer.

Also, the Internet is the Internet, that's why we call Real Life...well...Real Life.

Perfect criticism I think. It's already happened. Most people, including me, are socially incompetent now because we were raised on the internet.
We should really limit time on these devices for kids. I mean, they need to learn how to use them efficiently, but they also need to function without them.
But good luck with that. Shitty parents will just have another thing they can distract their kids with so they don't have to actually parent them.

Originally Posted by Ne-yo

Google is overreaching on this one and chances are, this will be Vaporware.

I disagree. Bluetooth could be seen as overreaching too. But many people use it now. I didn't think anyone would because
it's too alien. It looks weird. This will work; businessmen and nerds will take it up and others will follow.

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

Damn, I was gonna post that.

So instead, I'll just post an invisibly cloaked Mercedes - though it seems mostly pointless to have an invisible car, the 'old technology' could be used to have a dynamic car colour or pattern/design.

It's not a real car. It was just for an ad. Why the fuck would they make that an actual car?
Traffic hazard if I ever (didn't)saw one.

Originally Posted by nina

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

What's that from? Some sort of cyberpunk?

It's just a photo, I believe the title is Future WoW player. Or something like that.
It's a very confronting photo I think.

lol yes, it's pretty poor technology anyway. I mean, it'd only be invisible from a specific angle......you'd need an eye tracker for invisibility over multiple viewing angles. Even then...it'd fail like that artificial wall in Ghost Protocol - that is, when two people are looking at it from two different angles.

Invisible vehicles would have military application if they could circumvent the problem with multiple viewing angles. But that car without the cameras, and just the LEDs could be used for displaying dynamic advertisements (company cars), or as dynamic car paint.

Originally Posted by Indeed

Eh, seems like it would be a pain in the glass to control.

Also, focusing your eyes on something THAT close can hurt.

Ha I get it. Like a window pane.

I think that this is incredible technology. I wonder when google x plan to have this out. And how far they have come on this. Is it still just in the concept department or do they have a physical prototype of it?

One article said the end of this year.
but....
.....

They have a physical prototype, and some of the employers are wearing it around to test it.

It's essentially just like the augmented reality iPhone camera apps. So it doesn't seem that novel. Though like that crappy kinect, the concept seems easy enough to accept, but the sensitivity, processing time, and calibration ends up being quite poor for anything non-basic.

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

It's essentially just like the augmented reality iPhone camera apps. So it doesn't seem that novel. Though like that crappy kinect, the concept seems easy enough to accept, but the sensitivity, processing time, and calibration ends up being quite poor for anything non-basic.

Currently it does not augment reality, it simply provides a speech controlled transparent interface.

Originally Posted by Marvo

Currently it does not augment reality, it simply provides a speech controlled transparent interface.

I've been deceived!

Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex.

Prepare to get your eyes hacked

Originally Posted by tommo

I disagree. Bluetooth could be seen as overreaching too. But many people use it now. I didn't think anyone would because
it's too alien. It looks weird. This will work; businessmen and nerds will take it up and others will follow.

Bluetooth was very practical for the mid 90's, after-all, the technology consisting of frequency hopping was used for Ciphony I/X system and was very well established since the second world war. The mobile display technology we need to have available for these glasses to work 'exactly' like the video is pretty limited and if Google does pull this off, I'm almost certain we will not see them on shelves until some time after 2017. In order for Google to do 'augmented reality' it's going to require the glasses to have additional hardware compared to what is seen on that picture posted somewhere in this thread. Not to mention its going to be extremely difficult to create a transparent graphics display that renders viewable overlays for indoors and the outside world. Comparing natural light vs artificial lighting are on multiple orders of magnitude. I would love to see these developed and I will surely be one of the first to grab them but I just can't see it happening anytime within the next 5 years or so. I'm just throwing some stuff out there, who knows this product may very well be on the market during late fall of 2013.

eXistenZ is a GREAT movie, so to whomever mentioned it, you gain +10 points from Dumbledore. This is what it reminds me of whenever I'm discussing the merging of reality with virtuality. I shall reply with a quote from Fahrenheit 451.

"... Sometimes I sneak around and listen in subways. Or I listen at soda fountains, and do you know what?"
"What?"
"People don't talk about anything."
"Oh, they must!"
"No, not anything. They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming pools mostly and say how swell! But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else."

I actually went and got my copy of the book from my room to find this quote...

In the words of Clarisse, "Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age."

Multiple thoughts, all intermingling.

BUT ANYWAYS, about those glasses. I see no purpose to them other than someone watching a youtube video and accidentally walking face-first into a pole (or worse, driving into oncoming traffic.)

Google was working on technology for a car that drives itself too. So if we start making self driving cars first, then we can watch youtube while driving around and it will be okay.

Originally Posted by ThePreserver

Fahrenheit 451.



I actually went and got my copy of the book from my room to find this quote...

In the words of Clarisse, "Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age."

Multiple thoughts, all intermingling.

BUT ANYWAYS, about those glasses. I see no purpose to them other than someone watching a youtube video and accidentally walking face-first into a pole (or worse, driving into oncoming traffic.)

Yesss, I remember that quote from the book. Loved it.