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[PA Comic] Friday, June 14, 2013 - Glasshole
Geth
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For real, I don't know what it does. It looks like it's just a small camera that that you wear on your face... I wonder if Mike had that lasik procedure specifically because he was getting Google Glass :P
To me, while the concept of Glass is a neat and innovative step into the future, I am not sure that being a Google-sanctioned paparazzi is going to be appealing to the privacy-conscious consumer.
I think the concern here is that "the privacy-conscious consumer" is a rare breed. Almost equally rare are people who are not asshats. Gabe is, generally speaking, not an asshat. At least at people he doesn't know well. This is not true for people in the general case.
We all know how Cell Phones use has been affected by social protocol as they became all-present, i.e. it was not affected, people use cell phones whenever and wherever they damn well please, screw everyone else. I would say that if the Glass were to become anything approaching ubiquitous, we would see this attitude extended to it.
youtube.com/watch?v=v1uyQZNg2vE
I think he did it before he knew he was getting Google Glass, and anyway it's designed to sit in front of standard glasses if needed.
http://www.geek.com/android/48-hours-in-wearing-google-glass-with-glasses-1555830/
Google is also working on incorporating prescription lenses straight into the Google Glass:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-34900_7-57585043/glasses-with-google-glass-prescription-versions-appear-at-google-i-o/
Ok, displaying the reference image on the glasses while you work is actually pretty cool. Would also help with DIY car repairs..
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I keep envisioning situations like a woman walking by herself at night, streaming video to cloud storage. If she's attacked, that record will survive, even if the Glass is destroyed. Or protestors, streaming video during a demonstration. Even if the police arrest everyone, or confiscate or destroy their equipment, the record survives.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
That's more or less all it is currently using Google Now cards, it doesn't record or take a picture of anything unless you tell it too. Even if you did keep recording constantly the thing only ends up having a battery life of something like 30-45 minutes. It spends most of its time sleeping/suspended until you need it for something and it wakes up. Of course the technology is still in the very early stages.
Yeah you can have something like that with Google+ I believe with the option to have whatever you upload set private or public. But you do need to have it connected to a phone for the connection.
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I'm also pretty sure that like an armed society, a sousveillant society is a more polite society.
People who won't behave appropriately in public are going to have to adapt or avoid it. Girls and women should be particularly concerned, because between this, Vasalgel/RISUG, the population crash, and the accelerating increases in men's liberation, a lot of the special perks and privileges they're accustomed to are going away.
Gabe's earlier newspost is rather telling, too. his gut feeling is that using Google Glass in public with strangers is rude. i'd be for a device that gives you a real-time HUD with useful information, but not with the data recording and "cloud storage" that comes with Google's particular implementation.
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This would be absolutely fantastic - I'm far too squeamish for laser eye/contacts.
But that's a straw man. Nobody here but you is proposing any such thing.
well that's good, because i could have sworn i was addressing an implication made here:
bad actors exist even when society is armed or recording everything. bad actors exist because of those things as well.
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geth, kick @fightinfilipino from the thread
You can tell her to tune into what you're seeing, and when she does you're standing behind her. Comedy gold!
They need to keep a better eye on you at the home.
Have you seen the stuff some folks have been developing like this for fire-fighters?
I have not.
I don't need mine to be heroic and save people and shit, though.
I need it to identify in which room I left my fucking keys.
Why have keys when you have fingerprint or eyeball identification to unlock things? We're already talking about the future, just roll with it.
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"Google, direct me to my keys."
"Calculating... look down. Place your hand in your pocket. No your other pocket."
Perhaps the answer to that is "don't use it for that stuff very much then," but then you're just stick with an incredibly inconvenient and expensive digital camera and clock you have to wear on your face all the time.
Don't get me wrong, augmented reality and super glasses stuff is cool, but the realities of network infrastructure seems like it would severely limit the real world applications of this device.