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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:22:38 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Gwalchmai</author>
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			<![CDATA[ With<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9c6W4CCU9M4" >THIS</a><br /><br />This is not a hoax, my friends. The <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17618495" >BBC have reported on it</a> and Google have put it out through official channels.<br /><br />So, three questions: <br /><br />what do we think?<br /><br />who wants a pair?<br /><br />how long til there's an open source version? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:32:13 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[ to answer your questions<br />1- Woo Hoo!<br />2- Hell yes.<br />3- Soon I hope.. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:35:15 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Gwalchmai</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @ nelzbub - Yeah, I like it too.<br /><br />I'm surprised how unobtrusive it is. I thought it would be all gaudy layers [has anyone used the AR app 'Layar' (?)] and Google maps over the top of actual roads ensuring that no one ever learns where the hell they are but NO, it <em >looks </em>like it could be quite the opposite.<br /><br />Maybe I'm being a luddite about this, would anyone prefer a more Layar-like approach? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:36:18 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[ First off: ohmygodyes. <br /><br />Though I'm not sold on the voice interface (it's hard enough to get me to talk to <i >people</i>), I would be more than happy to have it hooked to my phone for controls.<br /><br />Knowing Google, there's a reasonable chance they'll be released Open Source out of the box. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:50:37 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[ Agreed with Morac about preferring that it be hooked up to my phone (or other portable interface of some sort), rather than voice activated. I don't want everyone around me hearing what I'm doing with my Future Visor, any more than I want people watching while I use my computer. I already don't use Siri on my phone for that very reason. Other than that, hell yes, I want one. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:55:50 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[ I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE FUTURE.  :D ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:06:55 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Klumaster</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I hope they have a solution to the scratched-glasses thing. Maybe an ablative layer that is very cheap to replace once it gets all scuffed up? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:20:39 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Morac</author>
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			<![CDATA[ There are some very tough glass products out there these days. My phone has Gorilla glass, and after six months of keeping it unprotected in the same pocket as my keys there is nary a scratch on it. I presume that corrective lenses require higher quality materials, but for other things (such as a glasses-based overlay system) there are some pretty tough options. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 02:59:13 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Gwalchmai</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @ Morac & rough night - Interesting that you don't want a voice interface for those reasons - I don't find that my Google voice commands work very well currently so there's another reason - and I think at 2:06 - 2:09, they offer an alternative: he swipes the side to activate the video sharing.<br /><br />Would a gesture interface be preferable?<br /><br />In a perfect privacy world, would you allow these glasses to read your thoughts?<br /><br />@ Klumaster [great first name btw, I haven't seen you on WC before so 'hello!'] - I think that I'd be buying a serious warranty with these things. they'd have to be made super durable otherwise because I know a lot of people who break and/or lose their glasses 4-6 times a year. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:00:46 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ ...and then the reality :><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3TAOYXT840" ></a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:01:19 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[ <em >nnf<br /><br />NNF</em> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 06:14:26 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Gwalchmai</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Following on from that parody, I've been checking into the advertising issue: simple answer?<br /><br />Yes, it would be a MASSIVE advertising spamfest all day, EVERYDAY.<br /><br />However, there are still a few things that are keeping me interested in this tech blurt:<br /><br />1) the absolute <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/apple-facebook-project-glass/" >shitstorm</a> it is causing with the <a href="http://www.theweek.co.uk/health-science/46199/why-would-i-want-google-glasses-and-what-are-they" >media</a>, <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57409781-76/googles-project-glass-envisioning-the-business-boost/" >techeratti</a>, and <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/5M1d3B/www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/what-youll-look-like-in-googles-glasses" >the funs</a><br />2) as Morac pointed out, these will be Linux-based thus easily crackable.<br /><br />It's the latter of these two that I care more about. My copies of Transmet are not where I am today but from that Google video, I can see that the glasses make calls, take video, photos, and voice-to-text input alongside all the Google specific programs - the first 4 of those alone were enough for Spider [if memory serves] and they're certainly enough for me.<br /><br />What I'm getting at here is that, once they're out in the public, these things will be cracked to use without all the unnecessarily wanky stuff that's bound to come with them at launch. <br /><br />Early reports suggest they'll cost no more than a low-end smartphone.<br /><br />If they could be free from knowing exactly where I am at all points and keeping a record of all my activities then I'd have these in a heartbeat. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:03:14 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>oldhat</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Is this going to be another thing that, like sunglasses and 3-D glasses, people who actually wear glasses will have to wear over and look/feel like an absolute dork?<br /><br />Because I'm not cool with that. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:33:01 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>andycon</author>
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			<![CDATA[ yeah if I can get them in prescription form I will but em in a second.<br /><br />Oh man, running scheme at the post office with these things just reading the address for me? *drool* ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:41:52 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Seantaclaus</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Still, it's quite possible that they've got measures in place for this issues listed above and other potential issues, and right now we can only speculate either way. The upshot about making it public? You can bet your ass that they're paying close attention to public reaction, specifically to see what potential problems people think of so that they can start tackling said problems now...  ...Even though the solutions may not necessarily be <em >in the wearer's favor</em>. ;) ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:05:02 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>andycon</author>
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			<![CDATA[ also they should add a button in the top for pictures/recording. How are we gonna properly stalk someone when we have to say 'take picture' right in front of them? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:32:19 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Klumaster</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Suddenly I see a use for one of <a href="http://www.ripten.com/2010/01/04/microsoft-patents-muscle-sensors-the-shocker/" >these</a>. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:37:14 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Nygaard</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Wouldn't most people just use these as a secondary display for their smartphone? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:39:33 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I would pay good money to get them in the shape of Spider's glasses. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:17:32 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Alan Tyson</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Get these as contact lenses (which I can wear my glasses over) and we've got a deal.<br /><br />...and maybe throw in some heat vision. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:35:23 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>oldhat</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mRF0rBXIeg" ></a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:06:21 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Morac</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I don't know - I'm still surprised that people actually see ads on the web, thanks to stuff like ad-block extensions.<br /><br />I do remember seeing some software out there that could detect and remove advertisements from video footage (like blurring out logos and whatnot) - potentially these glasses could allow you to see <i >less</i> ads than in real life. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:59:17 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Solario</author>
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			<![CDATA[ "Share to my circles." Oh, Google, you're adorable. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:52:53 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Gwalchmai</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Further news is that they've already prototypes out there:<br /><br /><img src="http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/google_project_glass_sergey_brin_2.jpg" alt="SergeyCompareTheGlassesDOTcom" ><br /><br />I thought that these would be a couple of years off even a prototype but it's good to see them out there already.<br /><br />On the advertising problem, I think it could go several ways but here are the main few we'll experience as users:<br /><br />1) [low-end usage, tech-compliant but not overly tech-literate, non-monthly-pay users] ADVERTISING FUCKING EVERYWHERE<br />2) [moderate-usage, tech-literate & happy to crack, non-monthly-pay but tailored payments users] no advertising and, like Morac said, possibly less advertising<br />3) [high-end, tech-geek & business, happy to pay monthly users] exactly as it looks in the video<br /><br />Because if a company like Google [that's installing internet cables, owns a phone making company like Motorola, and wants to put satellites into space] can get the amount of revenue from a monthly pay system like the big mobile phone companies can, why the hell wouldn't they?<br /><br />Would you exchange paying your current cellphone contract for a Google contract?<br />[Again, this question is posed in a theoretical 'perfect-privacy' world where Google respects your privacy and doesn't follow you around and gives you the option to turn off all that shit and have it automatically trigger when you need it.] ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 05:28:34 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Paul Duffield</author>
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			<![CDATA[ LeGuin's <a href="http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Blog2012.html#New" >blog article on this</a> gets it right as far as I'm concerned!<br /><blockquote >Excerpt: <em >After all, if for some reason we want to see what the world looks like while we’re looking at something more interesting, we can be taking pictures with the hidden camera inside our goggles. We can photograph the people who stagger past us, tilting their heads strangely as they scroll and click, until they get hit by a taxi driver whose cloud was not managing the guidance system in full synchrony with realtime... After the streets and highways have been more or less rendered impassable by carnage for a year or two, a few state legislatures will pass a bill to make it an offense to wear the goggles when driving in a nursery school zone or piloting a jet plane. Anything beyond that would infringe on our self-evident Constitutional right to access information, interface with our loved ones, and play games about killing people at all times in all places simultaneously. </em></blockquote><br />I love new technology, but I also love a good bit of snark when it's on the nose XD ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:15:41 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Jason A. Quest</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <blockquote >I do remember seeing some software out there that could detect and remove advertisements from video footage (like blurring out logos and whatnot) - potentially these glasses could allow you to see less ads than in real life. </blockquote>I think that having things in your field of vision go blurry or blank out would be at least as distracting as having logos in view. :/ ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:24:33 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>sneak046</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <blockquote >I do remember seeing some software out there that could detect and remove advertisements from video footage (like blurring out logos and whatnot) - potentially these glasses could allow you to see less ads than in real life. </blockquote><br /><br />A brilliant idea. Why not extend that further and have an extension that allows people to filter out other things IRL that they find objectionable...like Poor or homeless people, Bankers, Mac Users, Hipsters, Fat People, Other Races, the list could be endless....<br /><br />And after all , google are not averse to filtering their own search results to satisfy the demands of governments in certain locations, so why not have them filter out potentially politically 'difficult' things IRL too - like <a href="http://blog.ntdtelevision.com/?p=535" >falun gong posters in China</a> for example.<br /><br /> (nb, I am making these points merely as talking points and do not necessarilly think that either will happen, but still the point is there to be made.) ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 08:13:38 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @WORSETHANDETROIT:<br /><br />:P<br /><br />(if the pic doesn't load: <a href="http://plif.courageunfettered.com/archive/wc161.gif" >http://plif.courageunfettered.com/archive/wc161.gif</a>)<br /><br /><img src="http://plif.courageunfettered.com/archive/wc161.gif" alt="" > ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:38:56 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[ Not too keen to see the world through google's eyes. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:43:22 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Gwalchmai</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Verissimus - can you extrapolate that a little? I'm intrigued because I don't think I'm fully aware of all that Google is. I'm never sure how many steps behind them I am...though I know I'm behind them. <br /><br />So, in short - like I said, I'd like further discussion on it. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:11:10 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Verissimus</author>
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			<![CDATA[ The impression I got from that youtube vid is that this thing would just continually feed you with ads.<br /><br />I think it would be intrusive as hell. I like my unaugmented vision as it is.<br /><br />edit: Ah I actually mistook the video Oldhat put there as the real thing, sorry!<br /><br />Anyway, the second part of my reply still stands. I don't like it.<br /><br />Also, the guy asks: "Where is the music section?" and his Google glasses immediately realize he needs to find the music section in the store he's in? Does google really have a voice interface that works that way?? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:42:33 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Morac</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Detroit:<br /><br />It's a bit of a leap to go from removing corporate logos to racism and other discrimination. The possibility is there, but the funding is unlikely to be. (The monetary incentive for removing corporate logos is to not have your ass sued off if you release something with a companies logo in it).<br /><br />And yeah, Google does filter it's search results to match laws, but they do so because that's the <i >law</i>. I would take up with the government in question rather than Google (and personally, I'd point the finger of blame at the DMCA more often than I would at Chinese laws).<br /><br />@Verissimus:<br /><br />They probably do have the tech. I don't really know anything about how voice interface software works on the nitty-gritty end, but the essential parts of that command are pretty simple ("where" and "music", coupled with a GPS that can tell that you are in a particular store). ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:21:10 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>sneak046</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @morac Heh, not sure if my satirical intent was quite as obvious there as it was intended. (falon gong being a quasi-religious group whose existence is erased from official chinese news channels - searches for their name on Chinese Google are filtered. /thread derailment<br /><br />Perhaps they should get Roddy Piper to star in the next project-vision video... /They Live reference<br /><br />@vorna *wink* ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:41:23 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Morac</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Detroit:<br /><br />Err, yeah, I <i >totally</i> got the sarcasm. I had to treat it as a legitimate concern... for a friend. Yeah, that's it, a friend. This "friend" is a bit clueless, you see. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:44:56 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>nelzbub</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Regarding the voice interface, I am curious about how hard it would be to have a system that worked by tracking eye movement and blinking.<br />  Which would look more ridiculous; people muttering to themselves or walking down the street with twitching faces? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:54:05 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>oddbill</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Once again, it has proved out over and over with each new try that people will not wear computers on their faces in large enough numbers to justify mass producing the technology.<br /><br />I love computers, the future, my smartphone, my iPad, my nook... I will not wear a computer on my face unless it becomes medically necessary for some reason. Just like I won't walk around with a Bluetooth earpiece. Or roll around town on a Segway.<br /><br />These are technologies the design of which makes users look like tools. They are rejected by the market every time. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 19:19:41 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>James Cunningham</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Very rarely do I look at a shiny new piece of tech and thing "Gah!", heavily infused with "Get that thing away from me!" and overlaid with "I hate this."  I could only watch a minute of the video due to my immediate and intense dislike of the product.  Plus, much as I love Google's search engine, those glasses give Google a whole new level of information to data-mine. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 21:41:57 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>DavidLejeune</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Bluetooth earpieces seem to be doing just fine, marketwise, Bill. <br /><br />I think we're a bit past the 'people won't use this because they'll look dumb' phase. Convenience > looking stupid. Previous attempts at portable head-mounted displays didn't have nearly the amount of information gathering or display technology that this is likely to have. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:10:16 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>oddbill</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <blockquote >Convenience > looking stupid</blockquote><br /><br />That is absolutely not true. People put themselves to great inconvenience not to look stupid. The only thing that even permits bluetooth earpieces to remain minimally popular is that they aren't sitting in front of your face, which is the thing that will kill these and all "goggles", and still people widely view those among us who walk down the street chattering into bluetooth earpieces as assholes. Because they are layering their own private business in front of themselves as they walk in public. These glasses are even worse. This attempt at a portable head mounted display will crash and burn as badly as all the others have.<br /><br />You'll notice in the video they never show the guy's face, and the girl he is chatting with is not wearing the glasses. Because they would look like assholes.<br /><br />Imagine walking into a bookstore, eyes bizarrely focused, and asking the thin air where the music section is instead of just, oh, I don't know, glancing around the store? Asking a clerk? You think that person won't look like a self absorbed tool?<br /><br />This very effect will kill these things. I'll buy you dinner, David, wherever you are, if one year from now this is a viable product. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:13:56 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>DavidLejeune</author>
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			<![CDATA[ 'Nobody's going to want to look like an idiot waving their hands at and taking to their Xbox,' and yet <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/03/09/kinect-10-million/" >10 million people apparently didn't mind</a>. <br /><br />'3D TVs won't take off, because people won't want to look stupid wearing those glasses in their own homes,' <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/state-of-3-d-technology/" >except for the 3.6 million in the US last year who don't care</a>. (that article takes a pretty negative tone, but 23 million worldwide seems like a viable consumer product to me).<br /><br />The 'this won't sell because people don't want to look stupid' argument doesn't fly. You won't buy one because you think you'll look like an asshole, fine. People at large do things that make them look like assholes <em >all the time</em>. <br /><br />And it's not like Google is being coy about <a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-quy9Ox8dQJI/T3xUHhub6PI/AAAAAAAAABU/C_aMHkXPmTw/s761/glass_photos.jpg" >how</a> <a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-d4uuFgTAiZ8/T3xUPBXQKoI/AAAAAAAAABc/f8ApljAz7I8/s761/glass_photos2.jpg" >these</a> <a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-A6pD_FWmYxg/T3xUSvVz8LI/AAAAAAAAABk/qdfLOQRlrXE/s761/glass_photos3.jpg" >things</a> <a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KuBt2meCL9Y/T3xUZ7fd3CI/AAAAAAAAABs/bp17ueCuYxY/s761/glass_photos5.jpg" >will</a> <a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-1M-xaHCOeOA/T3xUiDBiRpI/AAAAAAAAACI/a_kKZQ830zA/s761/glass_photos4.jpg" >look</a>. It's a concept video for the user experience, not a walkthrough of the device, ffs. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:29:05 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>oddbill</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <blockquote >And it's not like Google is being coy about how these things will look.</blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/04/05/warning-objects-may-be-dorkier-than-they-appear-in-photo/" >Nope they're not.</a><br /><br /><blockquote >"...almost any article of clothing looks better on a size zero/hunkily-scupted early-20s model painstakingly posed in good lighting by a professional photographer than it will look on an average human who actually has to wear the thing on public transportation and then to work.<br />Which is to say that in the pictures above, the models are not wearing the Google Glass Protoype; the Google Glass Prototype is wearing the models. Please keep it in mind when you’re itchin’ to strap these LaForge Lites onto your noggin."</blockquote><br /><br />This says it better than I have. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:34:56 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Gwalchmai</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Erm...I kinda think they look cool.<br />Like a small part of the TRON universe has come to call. <br /><br />Aside from my questionable fashion sense, another big question I've been thinking of is: what will the next generation of workers think? The people that are 15-18 now, how do they react?<br /><br />I showed the concept video to my 16-year old niece who's constantly gushing over the newest release from Samsung and saying how much she wishes she had a Galaxy Note instead of her plain old Galaxy S that I gave her [//#firstWorldproblems, I know//] and she was floored. She immediately asked me, "When's that coming out?"<br /><br />We then went on to have a discussion about what she thought about it. I'm paraphrasing from memory but here's roughly what was said:<br /><br /><strong >Her:</strong> I don't want a new phone anymore, I'll wait for that.<br /><strong >Me:</strong> Why's that?<br /><strong >Her:</strong> Erm, well, I don't know - it just looks like it'll be better, quicker and more connected, you know?<br /><strong >Me:</strong> I think so, yeah, but what about privacy worries - Google might know almost everything about you and -<br /><strong >Her:</strong> I bet there's a way to get around that and, erm, Google sort of knows most of what I do anyway. If they ever got my Facebook, they'd know everything I do so...<br /><strong >Me: </strong>So you don't care?<br /><strong >Her: </strong>Not really, no, but it's not that I don't care if someone else cares...I don't know, I just think that I'd love it.<br /><strong >Me:</strong> Let me show you this. <br /><br />[We then watched the ADmented video Robyn, Oldhat, linked to (wait, you should change your name to that Robyn - 'Robyn Oldhat' sounds brilliant, like an archer assassin from a wood that once knew prosper...anyway) ]<br /><br /><strong >Me:</strong> So what if that happened?<br /><strong >Her: </strong>Could it?<br /><strong >Me:</strong> It might...<br /><strong >Her:</strong> Erm...naa, there's gotta be a way to get rid of all that?<br /><strong >Me:</strong> What if there weren't? Would it still be worth it to have all that cool stuff right in front of you without having to mess around with a clunky phone?<br /><strong >Her:</strong> No but then...no one would buy it if it was that bad...toolbars at the bottom with adverts might be alright or a ticker along the bottom - I could ignore that - <br /><strong >Me:</strong> So you wouldn't have it if it was that bad?<br /><strong >Her:</strong> No...but it won't be. There's gotta be a way to get rid of those.<br /><br />It tailed off after that.<br /><br />I thought this intriguing - not only that she wouldn't believe that it could be that bad and that there wouldn't be a way around it but - especially because she said she wouldn't mind a ticker. Personally, I <em >hate </em>tickers - they annoy the shit out of me - because they constantly distract me in the way that TV does when I've not watched it for months however she '...could ignore that'.<br /><br />Another big issue here is: joggers, walkers, exercise peoples.<br /><br />I walk twice a day, most days, for about an hour and try to spend as much time on my feet as is possible. I know that if I'd important stuff coming in or needing to go out, these would be friggin perfect for that. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:53:46 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Alastair</author>
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			<![CDATA[ if you can't get perscription ones thats a massive amount of people to miss out on ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 06:53:55 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Sure, but when<strong > I </strong>want to eat long pig ... ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 07:17:50 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Nygaard</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Interesting thing, that. Most people expect a pretty wide field of customizability for their gadgets, either trough choosing the right gadget, or by tinkering with it after purchase. Strangely, that seems to help us swallow unwanted features like ads, since it makes them feel optional even when they are not meant to be. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:32:02 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>nelzbub</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <blockquote > I will not wear a computer on my face</blockquote><br />While I agree that the initial designs will probably look a bit odd, I can see no reason why the design cannot be advanced to the point where they will look identical to the glasses I wear on the front of my head every day.<br /> At that point why would I need to bother carrying a phone/camera/laptop etc if all of these functions can be carried out by a device that I know I will never forget to pick up because I'm wearing it.<br />As for the "out of focus/talking to yourself" thing, perhaps we shall have to create a new etiquette to go with these new technologies.<br /> It reminds me of a classic passive aggressive sign I saw in a shop that said "Out of respect for your privacy, we will wait until you have finished your phonecall before serving you." ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 11:46:29 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Magnulus</author>
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			<![CDATA[ If it comes in a system that can be integrated into any choice of glasses (like my black rimmed reading glasses) I would totally go for it. The UI needs work, especially all the chatting, and the whole "show me the music section" is taking it way too far, but it's very promising. And I agree with Ben's niece on a lot of points.<br /><br />We do need new legislation on privacy protection and such to reflect the times we live in, though. Like the whole "right to be forgotten". ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:30:18 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>DavidLejeune</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I don't think there will be that much of an adjustment to etiquette for using these. Talking to your glasses to send texts or find you directions or set reminders isn't a million miles away from the millions of iPhone users who are currently asking Siri to do all the same shit.<br /><br />And if you extended the horn-rim from the glasses frame to the casing for the device, or tortoise shell or antiqued brass or something, and make the other side of the frames the same thickness (for symmetry) I don't see <a href="http://softsupplier.com/wp-content/plugins/jobber-import-articles/photos/133944-this-is-how-google-glass-will-look-like.jpg" >these</a> sending the fashion literate running screaming. I'd actually see an industry making mounts for the things popping up the same way it has for iPhone cases. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:47:08 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ While the ad promotes this as being the latest toy for hipsters imagine what it could do for people with dementia, for example.<br /><br />Pop-up reminders to take your meds or to keep appointments with your doctor; street directions for people with short-term memory problems; cognitive therapy apps to help people deal with anxiety attacks. Add a lifelogger program for people with memory problems. (I am absolutely terrible with remembering people's names. Imagine this set up to search your Facebook friends every time you look at a face and pop up any matches.)<br /><br />Yes, all those things are possible now on a smartphone but think how much easier they could be if it was as simple as puttign on a pair of glasses.<br /><br />Then too imagine integrating this with <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/sci-tech/professor-stephen-hawking-is-testing-a-device-that-could-allow-him-to-speak-by-reading-his-thoughts/story-fn5iztw3-1226320340993" >iBrain.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:45:23 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Magnulus</author>
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			<![CDATA[ That's a really good point, @Kosmo.<br /><br />Also, imagine this: Hold your palm up in front of you and it is overlaid with a menu that you can use to perform many of the voice commands. Perhaps you can hold one palm up and use the other hand to pinch and drag identified elements in the world around you to your palm in order to do stuff. I dunno. Sounds a bit weird, but it's a way to bridge that gap of usability and would help it feel a bit more like what we have now (and it seems to me that new things do a lot better if they have a reassuring connection to what people already know) ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:57:36 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>DavidLejeune</author>
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			<![CDATA[ As good an idea as that is, I figure the vast majority of the processing on these things is going to be cloud based, so it kind of has to be voice driven to reduce the apparent input lag. Everybody is used to 'give voice command->wait a tick->confirm' process from both Google Voice Search Actions in Android, and Siri on iOS. 'Hold up palm -> wait 10-20 seconds for image recognition to recognize it's your hand -> perform gesture -> wait for gesture to be recognized -> confirm' will be overly unwieldy. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:45:08 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Nygaard</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Kosmopolit - very good point. All kinds of assistance tricks should begin to appear if these catch on.<br /><br />Regarding facial recognition plugged into facebook - I haven't been paying enough attention to that whole thing. Has it improved any in the past 3-4 years? Going by the functionality of google goggles on my phone, I'd guess it's still crap, but that might just be because it's not a priority for the goggles team.<br /><br />What it does well is recognize printed pictures, tracking down appearances of the same picture on the web - of course, it does even better if you just load the image file directly. (A functionality many, many ripped off artists were willing to pay respectable sums for in the 00's.) Setting the google glasses up with alerts, or an image search triggered by certain images, or just shapes, colours, light levels and so on, might be interesting.<br /><br />I still think the main usefulness of these things is the ability to know where they are and which way they are facing, just like a smartphone. What they add to the whole thing is matching position-orientation to the way your face is actually oriented.<br /><br />For example, I loaded my android with a star chart app; being able to pick out the planets and constellations with near - absolute confidence just by pointing it the phone at the sky was surprisingly amazing. It also made us painfully aware of how much of the night sky is invisible in cities due to light pollution. I've shown it to quite a few people now, and none of them had any idea what was what until they had a look on the screen (An old pet whine; people just don't look up at night anymore.) These glasses would improve on that in some ways; rather than standing around pointing your phone at the sky and going ooooo, you would simply bring up the star chart and look up.<br /><br />Which brings me to a problem. Namely, then what would you do? How do I show what I'm seeing to the guy standing next to me? People hand their phones around a lot, look over each other's shoulders, point things out to each other. Unless google is including some kind of electronic handshake funcionality - which would of course fall far short of a replacement - there's no way you could just show someone what's on your screen? You could hand your glasses over, but you would never be looking at the same thing at the same time? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:25:26 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Nygard - I think what you'll see is kinect/Fifth Sense style gesture recognition. So you stick your hand up. make a gesture to active the "virtual hand" mode and then your hand can interact with the icons - including passing them to other people wearing Google Glasses.<br /><br />I wonder if anyone's trademarked "iGlasses" yet? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:28:15 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Paul Duffield</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I'm not used to hands free making it appear that people are talking to themselves in the middle of the street yet. People waving their hands in front of their face is going to take me even longer XD This really seems like intermediate technology. Call me conservative but voice or gesture control seems to be a bit of a deal breaker. Give me neural control and I'm there (I've already used a crude neural control device that's actually on the market, so we can't be that far off). ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:43:44 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>oldhat</author>
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			<![CDATA[ You yanks know about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann" >Steve Mann</a>, right?<br /><br /><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Wearcompevolution.jpg/800px-Wearcompevolution.jpg" alt="" > ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:26:40 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Gwalchmai</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Steve Mann's not the only one.<br /><br />There's Brits too.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33wOKBMA2QA&feature=my_liked_videos&list=LLOrOzGLUtqWUWOjpRlnOe1w" >Namely, this guy</a><br /><br />There's an awesome photo of Steve Mann out there, somewhere, where he's holding what looks like a keyboard but is in fact an early prototype of a wearable computer - I'd ahve to dig it out from my bachelor's study files but it was at that point that I said to myself, "Yes. I really do love cyperpunk." ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 06:53:37 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Jamie Coville</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I don't wear glasses. I don't want to start just so I can do most of the stuff I can already do with my smart phone. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:54:38 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Steve Toase</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Thought this was going to be about google developing a chain smoking two headed cat.<br /><br />One possible comparison is with the military, particularly heads up displays in jet fighters. Have these raised any particular safety issues which would be comparable with the glasses?<br /><br />I also think that it's possible that this will develop into devices that fit onto current glasses, maybe through a coating on the lens? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:51:36 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Klumaster</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Oh, actually, looking back at their own announcement site, they're already doing mockups of how you could fit them on prescription glasses. I suppose that answers that. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 02:13:16 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Gwalchmai</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-hlqyS37aUc8/T6ligjV-lKI/AAAAAAAABf4/gXDP0_6nPug/w497-h373/jasper.jpg" alt="Free Hands" ><br /><br />Expect 2013 to be the year that the internet sees more hands in photos than any previously recorded year.<br /><br />this, of course, from <a href="https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts" >google's official Project Glass page</a>. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 08:54:53 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>oldhat</author>
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			<![CDATA[ You know, the more I've been thinking about this (and after discussing it a bit with Oddbill over pints) I've decided that I'm just not going to bother with this. While I won't deny that a lot of people want to be completely plugged in to things during their waking hours, I'm of the sort that will turn the computer off to walk around and take in information at my own relaxed pace. <br /><br />I think these glasses will be a Fun Thing for maybe half a year. Sales will be good because there are always people that want to be ahead of the curve on that stuff. But I just feel that this won't really catch on. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 02:16:55 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Klumaster</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Personally I'm thinking it might be a bit like Kinect - once they're out people will eventually work out why the second or third generation of them might be worth having. ]]>
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