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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
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...
What misconcenptions or ignorance? Google Glass users are predominately self-obsessed assholes. Maybe you Google fangirls need to get your panties untwisted just because not all of us want to deepthroat Sergey Brin like you?
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.
Because it's responsible for all the things people hate about web pages. Pop-up ads, pop under ads, floating ads, flash ads, flash exploits, java exploits....
A better question would be: What has javascript done that's GOOD?
Because it's responsible for all the things people hate about web pages. Pop-up ads, pop under ads, floating ads, flash ads, flash exploits, java exploits....
Um...what? How is Javascript even remotely implicated in flash/java applet exploits?
Monstar L
I'm betting on Python Eyes, O-O=====, object-oriented mayhem.
Often, the vulnerability will be in a Java or Flash applet and the exploit will be via JavaScript. A vulnerable applet just sits there being vulnerable until a bad guy takes control of it via script. That's why this setting exists:
1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click the Tools menu and then click Internet Options.
3. Click the Security tab, click the Internet icon and then click Custom Level.
4. Scroll down to the Scripting section. Under Active scripting, select the Enable option. Then, under Scripting of Java applets, select Enable. Click OK.
5. Surf for 20 twenty minutes.
6. Restore from backup because you've probably been pownd.
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!"
Actually, I was looking forward to getting affordable HMDs. The idea that they will just very likely not be "mine" at all is kinda discouraging, though.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Mine too!
But then again, I'm in IT-Security. I endearingly call it "part of the job security package".
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The idea that they will just very likely not be "mine" at all is kinda discouraging, though.
That should be completely revolting to you.
Because it's responsible for all the things people hate about web pages. Pop-up ads, pop under ads, floating ads, flash ads, flash exploits, java exploits.... A better question would be: What has javascript done that's GOOD?
Says the man who's never used jQuery ... you can't be serious.
Yes, with great power comes great responsibility. But don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. (And I have more cliches where those came from!)
Notice how this whole pages doesnt need to reload every time you click something?
Now you can use your eyeballs to try and get Mario to punch the monkey!
Says someone who assumes that a supposed misuse of JavaScript equates to faulty language.
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.