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The New Google Glass Is All Business
An anonymous reader writes: Google scrapped an early version of its smart glasses in January, but has developed another model just for businesses. The company hopes to get this newest version of Glass in the hands of healthcare, manufacturing and energy industry professionals by this fall. Recode reports: "The new model can fold up like a traditional pair of glasses and is more rugged for outdoor use. However, unlike most other smart glasses, it still sports a small screen to the upper right of the user's vision, rather than displaying an image in the center of one's view like the ODG R7 or Microsoft HoloLens."
Glass, it seems to me, is inherently far more limited than actual VR systems like the HoloLens. With the HoloLens you could choose where to put the small square of information you can see, plus of course there are all of the options of overlaying more info on top of physical objects you can computationally recognize...
I guess one big draw would be battery life, Glass you would think would be a lot better in that regard than the HoloLens.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I'm guessing that their decision to pitch rev. 2 at the 'people who propped up the blackberry holster market' demographic suggests that the Glass team was not entirely successful at coming up with a version that isn't socially alienating and ridiculous looking?
Work is about the only place I'd want to have these, anyway. No more privacy issues and that's exactly the place where pop-up information is handy. All I ask is they make these things big and ugly to discourage wearing them out in the public.
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That is the quintessential creepy aspect: if you are around someone wearing them, then your image, your speech, possibly the image of any object you're holding (e.g. credit card) becomes the property and use of a corporation. So, just like someone walking around with an leaf-blower full of anthrax, many of us don't want to be around anyone wearing one.
I'm kind of interested in this. I've know that Glass could have applications to the work I do every day. Even if not for me, then for a remote employee or contractor who could send back real-time data from a site for review and analysis. Or even for reference materials or two way conversations live in the field.
I'd prefer to use it as part of my plan to take over the world and destroy the Kingsmen in the process but, as they say, baby steps...
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
You're required to wear your Google Glass on the job. Expect management to review everything you're looking at for personal reviews. You're allowed to use the privacy button on the glasses during break time or when you're using the restroom. Ignore Greg from IT who says that button doesn't work. Anyway, at least us management no longer have to wear the Google glass.
I'm sure developers will be queuing up to write software for this. The same ones that got burnt with the original Google Glass.
I assume the porn industry loves these things?
There are already glasses available for that at much lower cost and extremely stealthy. You could literally put these on somebody else and they wouldn't know they were filming all they see.
So no, this isn't that creepy.
Lower cost option for Comic Store Guy: An iPhone in his shirt pocket, with just the lens peeking out.
The hapless Segway would have been hero technology had it first been marketed to those handicapped who can stand but not walk. It would be intermediate tech between fully mobile and chairs, which take you out of the eye-contact world of the normally upright.
In the same way, Glass could have been introduced as a niche product for stock traders and surgeons who need some HUD information in their peripheral vision while performing a task that they want others to look in on. Instead of sneering at Glass, hipsters would be vying to get their hands on "surgeon glasses" to impress their dates.
That is an awfully specific scenario. How long have you worked in a comic store?
The new business Glass looks like the more mobile replacement for the dash/action cams beloved by extreme sports enthusiasts and Russians, if the device is made rugged. The police force could also be a target market, although I'm not sure Google would want the "police state" association. (This might prove useful in settling police abuse cases though.)
So what you're saying is you're selling a useless overpriced miniature screen that's been outdated for over a decade instead of a genuine augmented reality product?
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
If by "very real" you mean "completely fictional", then, yes. Or, instead of spending $1500 on a crappy 720p video camera, easily visible hanging on his face, maybe he buys a few GoPros, including one under the floor for upskirt shots, a couple hidden among the behind-counter displays, with attached zoom lenses, etc. They'd be better hidden, give more camera angles for the coming fapocalypse that night, and cost less, even with half a dozen cameras.
But if you want to make up fantasies about fat men pounding their pud, more power to you.
There are already glasses available for that at much lower cost and extremely stealthy. You could literally put these on somebody else and they wouldn't know they were filming all they see.
So no, this isn't that creepy.
I looked at the reviews for those glasses on Amazon. The avg rating is 2 stars or less, which is really bad. They are low quality, unreliable, and aren't worth the money.
I see no mention of whether or not a left-eyed version will be available or if it can be switched to serve whichever eye the user wants. How about that and provisions for using along with a normal set of eyeglasses. I'd rather not have to have to get another set of lenses just for a Glass.
By the way, do any of you remember the 1992 compute and console game "Flashback"?
Yeah and I find averages unreliable. And Amazon.com I find to be low quality in the spy dept.
At least try a site that about this shit. Camera glasses have been available for a long time but never were a consumer hungry item that big retail dot com is going to have a great selection of.
FYI they come in HD now so 4k is not far off.
LOL@fapocalypse. Sounds like you know all about that with all the diff angles you mentioned.
Camera peeking out of shirt pocket is not good. First of all no one keeps their phone in their shirt pocket so that would look suspicious. Second of all it might lean in the wrong direction since it's heavy. Third of all you don't know if the focus is bad or not.