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MIT Researchers Bring JavaScript To Google Glass
colinneagle (2544914) writes "Earlier this week, Brandyn White, a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, and Scott Greenberg, a PhD candidate at MIT, led a workshop at the MIT Media Lab to showcase an open source project called WearScript, a JavaScript environment that runs on Google Glass. White demonstrated how Glass's UI extends beyond its touchpad, winks, and head movements by adding a homemade eye tracker to Glass as an input device. The camera and controller were dissected from a $25 PC video camera and attached to the Glass frame with a 3D-printed mount. A few modifications were made, such as replacing the obtrusively bright LEDs with infrared LEDs, and a cable was added with a little soldering. The whole process takes about 15 minutes for someone with component soldering skills. With this eye tracker and a few lines of WearScript, the researchers demonstrated a new interface by playing Super Mario on Google Glass with just eye movements."
the researchers demonstrated a new interface by playing Super Mario on Google Glass with just eye movements
Followed by the researchers demonstrating how to try and relieve a headache by massaging their temples with their thumbs.
Better known as 318230.
Flash will be next.
https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendaEM
At least this time we can blame Network World for the crappy headline, and not someone here at Slashdot. We can just blame them for not bothering to read the summary, much less the article.
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
Javascript should not be received Pig in the 'Poke style.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
Yeah, but ultimately you're still a Glasshole.
So how long is it going to be before someone writes some sort of java script that blinds the user?
I don't think anyone would want to flash a glasshole...
Go back to Redmond and play with your Bings, luddites.
It's honestly one of my favorite languages.
We attach something to the thing we attached to our glasses.
Have gnu, will travel.
I didn't know soldering some electronics together and porting a language to a platform is Ph.D. level work.
just to play super mario.
I'm betting on Python Eyes, O-O=====, object-oriented mayhem.
With Javascript on Glass, can malware be far behind? Would affected users be stumbling around blinded? Would IT-conscious Glassholes get tired of having to say "OK, Glass: Yes to the umpteenth fucking Java update dialog today!"
It's the glass wearers that will be flashing.
Like future Repetitive Stress Disorder for peoples fingers working their texting devices the Eye Strain that will result from these devices will be making a bunch of lawyers very rich.
Imagine having to move your eyes very precisiely for hours at a time for these things?
Fun Fun Fun...
Google Glass is great for street photography and journalism as I can secretly take pictures of strangers without their permission in public places and publish or sell the photos for fine art and photojournalism, so for me Google Glass and its camera is great for my freedom of speech and it will help me educate and beautify the world with my photographs. After all, nobody should have privacy in public.
Google Glass is great for street photography and journalism. It allows me to take photos of people without their permission.
cross-eyed scripting attacks?
Ah, young webmaster, ... suffering.
Java leads to Javascript.
Javascript leads to Flash.
Flash leads to
The "webboys" made the SAME MISTAKE as MS with macros allowing script into documents - you do THAT? The "trash comes blowing in the door from outside" (ala malicious script): We were FAR BETTER OFF doing CGIBins/WinCGI server-side, in a TRUE Client-Server fashion (just getting a resultset back from server side) for security if anything @ all.
APK
P.S.=> Any time you "take the easy way out" & "make it easier for the masses"? THIS is the result... apk
Terrible idea. What a waste of battery, due to Javascript's inefficiency. (The same applies to the Web -- the number of petawatt hours wasted per year executing Javascript is mind-boggling.)
Now you can use your eyeballs to try and get Mario to punch the monkey!
Plus, as far as what you're saying? ASP.NET seems to do the job just fine on THAT account (& I've always thought of it as an IMPROVED version of ISAPI dlls running server side, albeit minus their tendency to leak ram that is, due to garbage cleanup).
* Bottom-line on "webboy" development (it's for chumps & weaklings anyhow) - too many "moving parts" b.s. is involved (sites accessing shit from WHO KNOWS how many 100's of other sites to top it all off).
APK
P.S.=> "Web Development" (doesn't even COUNT as far as I am concerned), is for noobz & squids, vs. actual applicaiton development (it's why the less skilled types go for it, it's all they can manage to do, lol, point-blank)... apk
The only way that PISA results can ever make sense is if you understand their primary flaw: they do not control for admissions standards and thus penalize more open admission systems (like the US), versus more closed admissions systems (about everywhere else, namely Europe and Asia).
As for assembling a computer from the parts up, it would require a lot more than one might think.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
When Glass is available in a full and free form for the Rest of Us, then maybe some of this might be of good use. It seems like about every interesting use is being removed from it until it is turned into something that pales in comparison to the developer units.
Of course, some Glasshole (or a few of them) would take that as a personal offense instead of responding to the top shortcoming of Glass - lack of general availability.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.