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Adjusting to Google Glass May Be Hard
New submitter fluxgate writes "Steve Mann (whom you might know for his having pioneered wearable computing as a grad student at MIT back in the 1990s) writes in IEEE Spectrum magazine about his decades of experience with computerized eyeware. His article warns that Google Glass hasn't been properly engineered to avoid creating disorientating effects and significant eyestrain. While it's hard to imagine that Google has missed something fundamental here, Mann convincingly describes why Google Glass users might experience serious problems. Quoting: 'The very first wearable computer system I put together showed me real-time video on a helmet-mounted display. The camera was situated close to one eye, but it didn’t have quite the same viewpoint. The slight misalignment seemed unimportant at the time, but it produced some strange and unpleasant results. And those troubling effects persisted long after I took the gear off. That’s because my brain had adjusted to an unnatural view, so it took a while to readjust to normal vision. ... Google Glass and several similarly configured systems now in development suffer from another problem I learned about 30 years ago that arises from the basic asymmetry of their designs, in which the wearer views the display through only one eye. These systems all contain lenses that make the display appear to hover in space, farther away than it really is. That’s because the human eye can’t focus on something that’s only a couple of centimeters away, so an optical correction is needed. But what Google and other companies are doing—using fixed-focus lenses to make the display appear farther away—is not good.'"
So, what's his view on POV porn on these devices?
Come on! You know you're getting these just for that!
The other uses are just rationalizations!
If only your mother been attractive enough to be able to charge actual money for sex. Then she wouldn't have had to let her syphilitic brothers gangbang her in exchange for the meth she constantly smoked, and you wouldn't have been born with the crippling mental defects that made you stupid enough to say that.
Had you not been the inbred bastard son of a filthy meth-whore that you are, you would have had been smart enough to realize that you don't need to be "important" for loss of anonymity to be a concern, because the corporate and government interests who actively seek to erode privacy want to do it to absolutely everyone, everywhere, regardless of how "important" they are. You would also possess the tiny spark of intelligence required to understand that this is actually more of a problem the LESS important you are, because "importance" tends to come with the resources and influence to protect oneself from these effects.
But your mom chose to trade incestuous group sex for drugs, so here we are.