Althouse: Google's "Project Glass."

५ एप्रिल, २०१२

Google's "Project Glass."

"If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from 'Star Trek,' don’t worry. It’s probably just a Google employee testing the company’s new augmented-reality glasses."

Wow.

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LordSomber म्हणाले...: Apple's version will use hipster glasses.; ५/४/१२, १२:४७ PM
Freeman Hunt म्हणाले...: I want different information.

Tell me the breed of the dog. Bring up Amazon reviews for the books I look at in the store. Tell me the species of the trees I pass.; ५/४/१२, १२:५२ PM
gerry म्हणाले...: Great. Now they'll be walking into me as they focus on their eyeballs-up displays instead of where they are stepping.

I don't want to mention how this will affect driving.; ५/४/१२, १२:५५ PM
Tim म्हणाले...: If it doesn't link to my Aimpoint and improve peripheral functionality, I'm not interested.; ५/४/१२, १:०१ PM
Freeman Hunt म्हणाले...: Oh, and make it so you can measure things by sight. That would rule. How tall is that tree? How wide is that bench?

How about instant background checks? Anyone you walk by who has been convicted of a violent crime in the past has a red exclamation point above his head?

Menus could have that too. Look at a menu and exclamation points appear next to things people have reviewed poorly. Stars next to good things.

Information pouring down in a torrent.; ५/४/१२, १:०४ PM
Freeman Hunt म्हणाले...: Help Wanted app. Look at a place, and it shows you their current openings.; ५/४/१२, १:०७ PM
Known Unknown म्हणाले...: "Oh, and make it so you can measure things by sight. That would rule. How tall is that tree? How wide is that bench?

How about instant background checks? Anyone you walk by who has been convicted of a violent crime in the past has a red exclamation point above his head?

Menus could have that too. Look at a menu and exclamation points appear next to things people have reviewed poorly. Stars next to good things.

Information pouring down in a torrent."

You just want to be a T-1000. Admit it.; ५/४/१२, १:१४ PM
Sorun म्हणाले...: "Share it to my circles."

What in hell is he talking about?; ५/४/१२, १:१४ PM
Tim म्हणाले...: ...but in California, they'll pass a law against driving, riding a bicycle, skateboarding, roller-skating, roller-blading, and walking while wearing these.

You'll only be able to use them while sitting.; ५/४/१२, १:१६ PM
Sorun म्हणाले...: Oh, and make it so you can measure things by sight. That would rule. How tall is that tree? How wide is that bench?

That would require a way to get the distance to the object, such as using a laser range finder.; ५/४/१२, १:१९ PM
Freeman Hunt म्हणाले...: That would require a way to get the distance to the object, such as using a laser range finder.

That's easy. Make the range finder part of the laser gun.

Surely these will have laser guns.; ५/४/१२, १:२१ PM
Freeman Hunt म्हणाले...: Real estate app.

Dating service apps. People who sign up for online dating services could have their profiles analyzed with other people within their proximity. Anyone who seems like a good match according to the services algorithm could have a heart over the head.; ५/४/१२, १:२३ PM
kjbe म्हणाले...: Freeman, there's an app, Theodolite, that can make those measurements.

We were out in RMNP, recently, and I wanted something that would tell me the peaks I was looking at. This could be that thing, though I prefer they look like normal glasses...; ५/४/१२, १:२३ PM
Bill म्हणाले...: I don't like the way it puts opaque icons in the center of the field of view. That goes beyond being annoying to being dangerous.; ५/४/१२, १:२६ PM
Freeman Hunt म्हणाले...: Consumer app tells you what brand and where to buy whatever you see that you like.

Services app could cull info from social media networks that use location. See a haircut you like? Google knows that according to Foursquare, that woman was in Salon Froo-Froo four weeks ago.; ५/४/१२, १:२७ PM
Sorun म्हणाले...: Surely these will have laser guns.

Hopefully two laser guns, sitting atop left and right side gun turrets.; ५/४/१२, १:२७ PM
Freeman Hunt म्हणाले...: Later on we'll want auxiliary processor implants for our brains to manage the immense amount of additional information we'll be taking in.; ५/४/१२, १:२८ PM
pm317 म्हणाले...: Well, it is about time. MIT guys had a project called sixth sense that was similar a while ago.

Why didn't put plain glasses on it to make it look like a pair of regular glasses?; ५/४/१२, १:४३ PM
KLDAVIS म्हणाले...: This is essentially running the Android OS in a heads up display (with some advanced/evolved Google Goggles functionality). If you've used an Android phone, none of it should seem that foreign. That said, I can't wait to try it.; ५/४/१२, १:४७ PM
ricpic म्हणाले...: All that wizardry and he can't pronounce monsieur. Quelle domage.; ५/४/१२, १:५१ PM
edutcher म्हणाले...: I'm with Bill.

Too few people are looking where they're going anyway (ever tried to navigate a small parking lot?).

Half of them are too busy talking on the phone, now you want to add this?

Sorry, besides, I like to step away from CyberPlanet at regular intervals.; ५/४/१२, १:५७ PM
Patrick म्हणाले...: Was this their annual April Fool/ I remember laughing at their "interview" with the guy who filled in search suggestions; 'i have to type really fast.'; ५/४/१२, १:५८ PM
bgates म्हणाले...: Dating service apps.

Beer goggling app. Superimpose your choice of celebrity figure and attire over the body of whoever you've resigned yourself to settling for for the evening.

Oh, and make it so you can measure things by sight.

Also potentially part of the dating service app.; ५/४/१२, २:२८ PM
bagoh20 म्हणाले...: It's happening so fast that I think we won't even notice when it goes too far. It will run right past us, out of reach. We'll stretch and claw to get it back, but to no avail, as the beast will be loose, and man will have lost his prominence to his own creation, just like God did before him.; ५/४/१२, ३:१४ PM
dhagood म्हणाले...: @sorun: "share it to my circles" is a google+ term. a circle is roughly equivalent to your friends list on facebook (i think).; ५/४/१२, ३:१७ PM
bagoh20 म्हणाले...: "Oh, and make it so you can measure things by sight. That would rule. How tall is that tree? How wide is that bench?"

36-24-36; ५/४/१२, ३:१९ PM
अनामित म्हणाले...: Clearly illegal -- distracted walking! I'm sure Bloomberg and his nannies are readying their ordinances.

As soon as hipsters start tumbling into open trenches, it will lose its cache. Has Siri really taken off? Seems like another distraction to me.; ५/४/१२, ३:३२ PM
D.D. Driver म्हणाले...: We are all Robocops now.; ५/४/१२, ३:४० PM
Freeman Hunt म्हणाले...: Maybe it should read "Share to My Circles/Delete."

Alas, Google+ doesn't seem to have caught on.

Or maybe I'm wrong about that.; ५/४/१२, ३:५५ PM
raf म्हणाले...: I'm sure Bloomberg and his nannies are readying their ordinances

It will be forbidden, umless they can see a personal advantage to making it mandatory.; ५/४/१२, ४:३२ PM
bagoh20 म्हणाले...: I guess we need to have the government supply these free to all feminists so that they can be warned of oncoming traffic. We need to protect the most vulnerable of our community.; ५/४/१२, ४:४३ PM
KCFleming म्हणाले...: Do the google glasses inform women on the status of their underpants homunculi?

Bajingo tweets would prolly be helpful, when them ovaries be painin'.; ५/४/१२, ५:२१ PM
rhhardin म्हणाले...: What's wanted is a bigger L2 cache and faster processor, not stupid glasses.; ५/४/१२, ८:०६ PM
Carnifex म्हणाले...: Adults are "oohing" and "ahhing". Their kids are gonna go "Uh? What's the big deal?"

Read Verner Vinge's Rainbows End or Stephen Baxters The Light of Other Days.

Nanotech in medicine is where I get a tech chubby. Imagine having robots small enough to enter your cells and repair damage, 1 cell at a time. Unclog blood clots before a stroke, or remove (dammit, brain fart) Cholesterol! remove cholesterol from your arteries, or repair a thin heart wall.

You could have the nannies invade gametes so babies were born already enhanced.; ५/४/१२, १०:०४ PM
Carnifex म्हणाले...: Just watched the video, I can see liberals insisting that the government pay for these things because it would be discriminatory for only the wealthy to have such access. I can also see Google even further in bed with the NSA, DHS, and every other alphabet soup bureaucracy in DC to invade our privacy.

And I can see really intellectually lazy people being totally lost if these things go down.; ५/४/१२, १०:१६ PM
MarkD म्हणाले...: Let me test them. If I vote for Obama, they work.

I don't think that much augmentation is possible, but try me.; ६/४/१२, १०:१० AM