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Google Glass For Work Is Sleeker, Tougher and Foldable (engadget.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-and-improved dept.

An anonymous reader writes: FCC filings published today are offering a glimpse of the "Enterprise Edition" of Google Glass. According to Engadget: "...The work-focused eyepiece touts a much slicker (and likely more durable) design with both a larger display prism and a hinge that lets you fold it up for travel. The test photos also reveal a spot for a magnetic battery attachment and what looks to be a speedier Atom processor. There's still no word on when Google will announce this headset, although the FCC presence hints that it might not take long."

71 comments

  1. Glasholes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What company is going to let its employees bring in spyware?

    The world already has too many glassholes.

    Fuck them and Google.

    1. Re:Glasholes by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 3, Insightful

      What company is going to let its employees bring in spyware?

      Any company that allows cellphones.

    2. Re:Glasholes by Bert64 · · Score: 1

      Any company that supplies and manages that spyware themselves...

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    3. Re:Glasholes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It is very obvious when someone is using the phone to take pictures/video.

      Fuck glassholes.

    4. Re:Glasholes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Any company that allows cellphones.

      Oh, I remember you: slashdot's neoliberal cretin! Please, wear google glass as much as you can, everywhere and every time, and finally somebody else will find a useful purpose for your face.

    5. Re:Glasholes by swillden · · Score: 1

      It is very obvious when someone is using the phone to take pictures/video.

      Only if they're concerned about framing. If you're using a phone to spy, you don't have to be obvious about it at all. For example, just get a cellphone that is large enough that it protrudes from a shirt pocket. Start recording, slip it into the pocket with the camera protruding and facing forward, then walk around.

      Of course, if someone really wants to record without being noticed there are other options which are much less obvious than Google Glass (old design or new). And cheaper. For example: http://www.brickhousesecurity...., or http://www.brickhousesecurity.....

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    6. Re:Glasholes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      medical environments, for example

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  2. Uh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I was under the impression from reading other stories that Google already has multiple enterprise clients (i.e. in the Pharmaceutical industry, among others) who are already using enterprise versions of Google Glass.

  3. another predictably failed product by sittingnut · · Score: 3, Insightful

    really?! seems throwing money at product development seems to make developers ever more blind to the obvious defects in the whole concept of this device.

    1. Re:another predictably failed product by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.

    2. Re:another predictably failed product by thegarbz · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Every device has defects in it's concept. The only question is does the defects outweigh the benefits?

      Social acceptance of someone wearing some tech in a bar would indicate no even if the reasons for it are absurd.
      Benefits of real time HUD and augmented reality when performing functions that require on the fly information on the other hand would indicate yes.

      Why shouldn't developers continue working on a device if it only fails one specific use case? I can't use my phone in the cinema without getting the crap kicked out of me does that mean they shouldn't exist or be developed at all? After all it's an obvious defect in the concept of the device.

    3. Re:another predictably failed product by sittingnut · · Score: 1

      "only fails one specific use case"?!
      phone is equivalent and comparable to glass, in your ... eyes?
      if what you say is true, glass would be successful product already. it isn't and wont be.

    4. Re:another predictably failed product by thegarbz · · Score: 2

      No I'm using the phone is equivalent. Put down the pedantry and actually try and comprehend the post. I'll sum it up for you:
      Just because it doesn't fit YOUR specific use case doesn't mean all development should be abandoned on it and doesn't make the concept broken.

      Also if you want to suggest I'm comparing glass to a phone then I will: How successful do you think the mobile phone was in it's first year? Hell I'll make this easy on you, how successful do you think it was in it's first 5 years? What about the smartphone which went through some 10 years worth of development before it became popular, with people who had exactly the same attitude as you saying it'll never be accepted and it's a broken concept?

      You want to declare something a broken concept after only a very VERY short development period during which the product never left it's initial beta? Man I hope you don't actually work in the tech industry, that would be sad for all of us.

    5. Re:another predictably failed product by sittingnut · · Score: 1

      some points since you seem to be confused.
      there are successful products and unsuccessful products.
      success does not depend on whether a product fits MY(your shouting echoed), or any one individual's, needs and ideas.
      it is absurd to hope for eventual success of a product based on alleged analogies with alleged history of development and alleged past criticism of a successful product.
      nor does success have much to do with length of development.
      glass's main functions are already developed, only incremental enhancements awaits it. it failed in the main concept.

    6. Re:another predictably failed product by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      it failed in the main concept.

      I think you missed the entire premise that your view of the concept is just plain and simply wrong.

      The concept is HUD information and augmented relativity, neither of which are failed concepts, both of which are actively being worked on by hundreds of companies, and while you have a personal view that can be summarised as a fear of "Glassholes" the concepts which Glass is trying to implement solve real world problems and have the potential to help in a LOT of industries.

      Google could abandon development, and the only thing that would happen is they'll be overtaken by someone who didn't.

      Also while you're shouting back at me you missed another point, that the concept has nothing to do with an individual. There are entire industries who would benefit from this, and there are companies far further along the road than Google with the concept you (singular) declare broken.

    7. Re:another predictably failed product by sittingnut · · Score: 1

      1/ perhaps you should study logic, before making arguments.
      2/ it is a bad habit to drop one line of arguments and launch another without acknowledging defeat in the 1st lines(involving length and alleged analogies)
      3/ i did not bring up individuals, you did . see above.

      4/ number of companies allegedly working on a product does not have much to do with product's success or failure, or alleged need for product, any more than amount of money thrown at it, alleged analogies with other product developments, length of development, etc etc

         

    8. Re:another predictably failed product by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      I'm still on the original line but whatever you think you read, by all means go ahead thinking it.

    9. Re:another predictably failed product by morgauxo · · Score: 1

      Glass won't be a successful product unti the price is reasonable.

      There are plenty of reasons that something like Glass would be useful. I want one and I'm not even interested in taking your picture.

      It's anoying though that so many people are so offended by a wearable computer because all they can see is a camera. I used to have friends that really liked to fight. If I ever get Glass maybe I'll look them back up. I can be their bait. I'll sit on my bar stool enjoying my drink and minding my own business. Nobody will know who I am with until some douchebag decides he has to do something about the technology in his presence.

      It will be fun!

  4. Have they solved the washroom problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Have they solved the problem of perverts using devices like these in public washrooms? Like do the devices detect when they're being used in a washroom, and automatically shut themselves down to prevent any recording from taking place?

    Let's say I get stuck going to a database conference. The venue also happens to be hosting a Ruby on Rails conference at the same time. Well, I would not be surprised if some of the Rubyists had glasses like these. I would also not be surprised if they wore them while going to the washroom. If I were in that washroom, I would NOT want these disgusting Rubyists to be able to record me urinating! I can just picture them leering over the top of the urinal divider, trying to catch a glimpse of my cock. It disgusts me that people could try stuff like that.

    I really, really hope that these kinds of devices have safeguards to prevent incidents like that from ever happening. They need to have some kind of auto shutdown to prevent that kind of perverse recording.

    1. Re:Have they solved the washroom problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      Repeat after me: Google Glass is NOT a hidden camera. It's no more a camera than your smartphone. If someone wants to get candid shots of you peeing, there is a whole lot of other hidden cameras available for the fraction of the cost. Or one can simply send you an SMS "hey, it's Samantha from the conference. You're cute. I'd love to see your cock" bet ya, more than half the guys at a database conference will trip over themselves to rush to the bathroom to send a candid selfie.

    2. Re:Have they solved the washroom problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Conservatron 9000, is that you?

      Or just some neckbeard with a micropenis?

    3. Re:Have they solved the washroom problem? by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 0
      Then use one of the stalls. Problem solved.It will also help with your paruresis.

      I can just picture them leering over the top of the urinal divider, trying to catch a glimpse of my cock. It disgusts me that people could try stuff like that.

      I think most people would be alarmed that you think this is a problem. You must be one of those supporters of "bathroom laws" because "everyone knows transsexuals just want an excuse to spy on women."

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    4. Re:Have they solved the washroom problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      What the fuck?! Let me get this straight: you're saying that the person who desires some small amount of privacy while urinating in a public washroom is somehow a deviant?! And you're also saying that transsexuals who intentionally use the wrong washroom just so they can peep on others aren't doing anything wrong?! What the fuck?!

    5. Re:Have they solved the washroom problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's not hard to setup an allow-all GSM network and send SMS to all automatically connected devices that noticed the signal range is best on that network. I guess it's time to try it out at some conference to verify this claim... for science!

    6. Re:Have they solved the washroom problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There needs to be a special 3rd bathroom that people who are offended by transsexuals and frightened of perverts can use.

    7. Re:Have they solved the washroom problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes I am.. YOU ARE A DEVIANT and need to stop wearing your tin foil hat and being afraid of the 'evil' transexuals. No one is going to snap pics of your cock. Besides its far easier to use a cellphone than it is to use google glass. Always has always will.

    8. Re:Have they solved the washroom problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If there is a problem you grab it off the offenders face and throw it in the urinal.

      As if they are ever going to press charges against you.

    9. Re:Have they solved the washroom problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't forget celebrities too. They're the ones with the genuine privacy concerns from perverts and paparazzi. Just because tranny's think they're special little snowflakes doesn't mean the world should revolve around them.

    10. Re:Have they solved the washroom problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      F- from reading comprehension. Prepare yourself and try again next week.

    11. Re:Have they solved the washroom problem? by dsmatthews9379 · · Score: 1

      You just need to buy the Apple-OLED-Cock-Ring and set it to ultra-bright mode to blind any potential perverts, Glass enabled or otherwise.

    12. Re:Have they solved the washroom problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Repeat after me: Google Glass is NOT a hidden camera.
      It's no more a camera than your smartphone.

      Repeat After Me: It's way more obvious when someone is using their phone as a camera than being able to tell if a glasshole is just looking at you or being a g'damn gargoyle.

    13. Re:Have they solved the washroom problem? by tlhIngan · · Score: 1

      I'd say have they solved the glasshole problem - a problem that's more social than technological. I mean, the original Google Glass suffered from that problem.

      The technology has its uses, but the problem is the humans behind it seek to use it in ways considered socially unacceptable. Hence the term "glasshole" which basically soured the technology to the public - it turned a good technology into an antisocial pervert tool.

      And when that happened, it's too late. When Google themselves had to issue an etiquette guide to using it you know public opinion has soured on it. And with people banning it all over the place, well.

      That's the real problem with Google Glass.

    14. Re: Have they solved the washroom problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not should the world revolve around people who hold their own cock in such high regard that they presume every one else is just trying to catch a peek... Honestly if any one with access to the internet wants to penises then a quick trip to craigslist will suffice, and if it doesn't there is plenty of porn out there made by folks who want to show off their penises.

    15. Re:Have they solved the washroom problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My money! Take it!!!

    16. Re:Have they solved the washroom problem? by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 1

      1. You referred specifically to someone in the washroom "trying to catch a glimpse of my cock." Unless you're not standing face front at the urinal, you're doing it wrong, and the people around you would like you to stop pissing on the floor.

      2. Transsexuals use washrooms for the same reason anyone else does - when you've gotta go, you've gotta go. Remember - we're everywhere, and there's no "trans-dar" that will let you spot us 100% of the time. You've probably unknowingly thought of some of us you didn't "clock" while masturbating. How does that make you feel? Gross? Well, guess what - most women feel gross about the thought of you thinking of them while wacking off.

      3. I've been using the woman's washroom since I began transition oh so many moons ago. If I tried to use the men's room, I'd be thrown out (or worse).

      You really need to think through your paranoia.

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  5. A workplace tool for the minimum-wage class by ffkom · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What irony! Once touted as the must-have toy for hipsters, Google Glass is now actually becoming a tool to steer and control human minimum-wage working drones in warehouses. Feel a pity for all who'll be obliged to wear such at work.

    1. Re:A workplace tool for the minimum-wage class by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Vannevar Bush's original conception of computers augmenting human cognition involved us wearing glasses that we could intuitively use while working on a project. Google Glass is almost a direct descendant of that idea.

      This is the same place we got the idea of hypertext information retrieval systems, and basically the seeds of what became the internet and modern PC's.

    2. Re:A workplace tool for the minimum-wage class by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Why? If it frees up my hands from the heavy barcode scanner I already need to carry?

      It's a strange concept to feel pity for someone who has to use a device that makes their life easier.

    3. Re:A workplace tool for the minimum-wage class by rocket+rancher · · Score: 1

      maybe a little irony, but not much. Anybody who needs data while remaining situationally aware is going to benefit from AR technology -- SAR, EMT, firefighters can all benefit from AR, and they are hardly minimum wage jobs. A google glass competitor called Recon Instruments may have found a pretty nice niche market for their retasked snow sports HUD. Its called the Recon Jet, and I have a first generation pair. It came out around the same time as GG, but cost less than half ($700 vs. $1500 for GG) and definitely look a lot hipper than GG, more like a fancy pair of Oakleys. They are great for engine and gear telemetry at track days on my Ducati, and they are fucking awesome for nav and topo when I'm skiing and snowboarding. My friend is a smoke jumper, and her western US team is actively evaluating them in the field. If Recon Instruments comes through on even half of what this promo vid promised two years ago, AR is going to be more than nerd candy, and definitely won't be confined to drudgery as you suggest.

  6. Google Glass for Porn ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    would probably be a better way to market it.

  7. Wrong focus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sleeker, tougher, and more foldable was never the problem. Usefulness was. They should fix the battery life and the available applications before they start worrying about aesthetics. Glass was just a really expensive camera that took bad pictures, and that was the main problem with it.

    1. Re: Wrong focus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah. I just want a programmable set of glasses that I can use as a HUD to mess around with. App overlays etc when I'm working. Is there a good product that isn't Glass ?

    2. Re: Wrong focus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sony SmartEyeglass.

      An actual augmented reality product (overlay in your field of view) compared to Google Glass which is just a screen you can glance at.

      http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/...

  8. Tougher by penguinoid · · Score: 0, Troll

    Can it survive a punch in the face?

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    1. Re:Tougher by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh no. Look out. Internet tough guy in the house.

      Just sit down before you embarrass yourself further.

    2. Re:Tougher by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Can it survive a punch in the face?

      It has an Apple logo, so after you rush right out to buy one you can let us know.

    3. Re:Tougher by penguinoid · · Score: 1

      Can they survive being sat on?

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    4. Re:Tougher by Gojira+Shipi-Taro · · Score: 1

      Gee, I don't know. Can you survive being punched, stabbed or shot in retaliation?

      Sometimes random tough guy violence has consequences.

      Just saying.

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  9. Re:Offtopic...but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    "We have immortality within our grasp and it's like nobody cares."

    Probably because this statement is blatantly false and we all know it. Immortality is not within our grasp, and if you knew even a little of the science in that area you would not be saying such dim-witted things.

  10. Re:And I will personally rip them off your face by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Congratulations, now you're in jail for assault and destruction of personal property. What would you like to do next?

  11. Re:Offtopic...but.... by thunderclap · · Score: 1

    Google is your friend: http://www.gizmag.com/telomera...
    http://www.gizmag.com/telomere...
    http://blogs.scientificamerica...

  12. Re:Offtopic...but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Oh really?

    Maybe you just don't want it to be true. But science is moving along, with or without you.

  13. Re:And I will personally rip them off your face by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You can easily find several news stories about glassholes being beaten and even sent to hospitals. However, I cannot find a single story about someone being arrested for assaulting a glasshole. I'm afraid the police doesn't really like glassholes, just like 99.9% of the population.

  14. Re:And I will personally rip them off your face by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And I will personally inflict violence on you back and then retrieve them. The stong suggestion is YOU flee the other direction. Aggression will get you kill and will serve as a warning to others. Or maybe we need to give them to #Black lives matter Go attack one of them

  15. Oh great by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 0

    Oh great, now I can be a more stylish Glasshole.

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  16. Re:Offtopic...but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    > The world's priorities are all screwed up. We have immortality within our grasp and it's like nobody cares.

    Imagine if 'immortality' had been solved 500 years ago and now there were 20 billion people aged between 100 and 560 years old hanging around and demanding that your taxes should be 350% of your income so that they can continue to collect their pension.

    Now do you still want 'immortality', or is it that you want it for you but no one else?

    rp

  17. Re:And I will personally rip them off your face by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    personal property

    Off to gulag!

  18. a speedier Atom processor? by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 1

    what indicates that they have put in an Intel Atom processor? i looked through the pictures and didn't see anything from Intel.

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    1. Re:a speedier Atom processor? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Atom blows. Run it on ARM.

  19. Re: Offtopic...but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Imagine with those population pressures what we would've done to reduce the population. Lots of big wars, or big leaps in technology to house those people somewhere..

  20. Re:And I will personally rip them off your face by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That's because there's nothing all that exciting about someone going back to jail where they belong.

  21. Re:And I will personally rip them off your face by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... and instead it's "exciting" to report only on glassholes going to hospitals, where they belong? Weird idea of newsworthiness.

  22. Re:Offtopic...but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Whoever said the poor would be able to afford the treatments?

    The population explosion is exclusively a low-income problem. Rich people barely have any kids. It has always been that way.

    Once we have immortality solved, we can get to work on labor automation so everyone can have the luxuries of a rich person. Then the population problem will be one of managing to replace the people who still die in accidents and wars and such.

  23. What, Glass is back? by Fear+the+Clam · · Score: 1

    I guess there's someone new over there willing to fuck Sergey.

  24. Re:And I will personally rip them off your face by ranton · · Score: 1

    You can easily find several news stories about glassholes being beaten and even sent to hospitals. However, I cannot find a single story about someone being arrested for assaulting a glasshole.

    You are sadly correct that most assholes who break laws are never caught. Especially for minor crimes like muggings and robberies. The good thing is most people are not assholes, which is why the vast majority of Google Glass wearers were never assaulted.

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  25. Still overkill by evilad · · Score: 1

    Dammit, why is this v2? All I wanted was the cheapest possible ultralight head-mounted HUD. Basically, a Glass with no processor and no fancy gadgets. I already have a wireless mobile computing device.

    1. Re:Still overkill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/...