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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.
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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.
Let's suppose that a good-looking woman goes into a comic book store to buy some comics for her autistic son.
The fat, bearded, stinky social reject who runs the shop, and who hasn't gotten laid ever, happens to be wearing a pair of commercial-grade e-glasses that allow him to capture video.
As she's paying for her purchase, the freak who runs the shop uses his glasses to video her.
Unlike with security footage, which is typically quite grainy and taken from some distance, this video is taken from a couple of feet away.
He focuses on her breasts, and even knocks her purchase onto the ground so she has to bend down to get it, at which time he records her ass.
She doesn't realize that he is recording her like that, and she leaves the store.
Later that evening, the fat deviant running the store downloads the video to his computer, and he proceeds to mercilessly beat his slimy micropenis to the footage he captured earlier.
Situations like that are very real, and very disgusting.
I would not want my wife or daughter to fall victim to a monster like that!
If I ever had an autistic son who wanted comics, I would be the one to go into the comic book store.
I would not risk subjecting my loved ones to the pervert wearing e-glasses who runs the comic book store.
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?
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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.
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."
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"?