Google Glass is Still Around (nymag.com) 70
Google may have discontinued the sale of Google Glass years ago, but die hard fans have not given up. From a report: Glassholes still exist, just not as boogeymen haunting the tech section of your newspaper. There's a small group of fans still talking and updating and buying and selling on Reddit. Somebody who picked up a pair for $150 and wants help using the device to display sheet music; somebody with questions about installing an older operating system onto Glass Enterprise; another person looking for foldable frames; somebody else trying to fix a broken device; people looking to buy, as well as a number of people asking if it's even worth it to spend any money on the now-defunct tech. (Spoiler: survey says it's not.) There is also, weirdly, somebody asking if Google nixed Google Glass "because 'someone' was made aware of the book 'The Circle' by Dave Eggers?"
Reading through the forum, it seems wrong to regard the dwindling frequenters of /r/googleglass as Glassholes. On the contrary, they seem to bust out their devices at incredibly appropriate moments. "I pretty much only use Glass for taking pictures/video while running/hiking or anywhere I don't have access to a phone or don't want to carry one," writes one Redditor. "It's a great way to capture highlights of a marathon, for instance, without having to stop and pull out a phone." "Text notifications. Phone calls whilst driving, pix and video while on the go," writes another.
Reading through the forum, it seems wrong to regard the dwindling frequenters of /r/googleglass as Glassholes. On the contrary, they seem to bust out their devices at incredibly appropriate moments. "I pretty much only use Glass for taking pictures/video while running/hiking or anywhere I don't have access to a phone or don't want to carry one," writes one Redditor. "It's a great way to capture highlights of a marathon, for instance, without having to stop and pull out a phone." "Text notifications. Phone calls whilst driving, pix and video while on the go," writes another.
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It's better for the person to use the phone in their lap or the center console of the car?
Heads up displays are better than heads-down, all else being equal.
Local hospital (Score:2)
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Just what I need, my Proctologist to have a camera that can upload to youtube with an accidental click....
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It isn't going to disappear. Its current incarnation is technically inadequate for widespread adoption. However the technology to do it well is not that far out.
Glassholes are dead, long live glassholes.
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Camera shyness is worse when a person holds it (Score:5, Insightful)
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"glassholes" is the word given to those who do not ask permission.
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No "glasshole" is a generic term idiots gave to google glass users without actually ever asking them what they were doing or if they were recording.
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If the future is omnipresent surveillance (I can see a simple AI app in 20 years basically being the panopticon held in the basement of those billion dollar spy agency buildings today) then the only real solution is to let everybody have it so we can track government as they track us.
Sad but better than the alternative.
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As a photographer, should you be surprised? People don't like lenses pointed at them, even amateurs know that.
People are also unaware of the degree to which they are subject to surveillance so, even if is as pervasive as you say, that would not change their discomfort.
At least it's good you realize that a constant "surveillance state", that you claim exists, doesn't give you the right to intrude in people's space. People like their privacy respected even if they don't have a right to demand it in public.
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How dare them desire privacy, it's clear we must obscure all surveillance so they are unaware of it.
Desire privacy is fine, expect privacy in a public setting is concerning to me. I mean, people seems to still be surprised when they post on public sites and get caught out? https://www.google.com/search?... [google.com]
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I'm often surprised at how camera shy people are, considering that they are being photographed and under video surveillance nearly constantly when in public.
Intent! People being photographed by a security camera to end up in some generic filing cabinet by some generic government or company unlikely to ever actually review said footage is quite different from a specific person pointing a specific camera into your face.
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People object more when they are the subject of the photo. If they are just there in the background when you take a selfie or snapshot some landmark they don't care so much.
They haven't caught up with technology like Facebook that can identify and tag them automatically yet.
Google assumed that having Glass was just like having a smartphone with a camera. People assumed that having Glass was like pointing a camera at them.
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Actual concept not bad, just not possible yet (Score:2)
The actual concept behind Google Glasses wasn't a bad idea par say. There are a lot of people who want overlay smart video technology. For something such as Car Navigation where it virtually pops up an arrow or indicator in your vision for where to go is a lot better for example than having people look at their GPS and then crash into things or people! Unfortunately both the ability to miniaturize this technology and battery isn't quite there yet so it was more of a test concept than a real device.
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yet I can walk around with my smart phone recording away, either up near my face like i am reading something on it; or just in hand down near my hip recording both what is in front of me and behind me with NO INDICATION at all. I use this all the time when I do walks around building for security audits. If you have something that looks camera like suddenly everyone is locking their desktops; ensuring their privacy screens are over their monitors like they are supposed to be; putting their badges back in t
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I want to place some emphasis here that I am not recording in public. I am recording as directed to do so within the confines of a private building at a private business in specific places within said building that are designated secure areas. Employees who work in these areas have agreed to follow a number of rules and agreed to various conditions such as "you may be recorded at anytime while on the floor" as a condition of employment there.
My point was simply that the objection people had to Google Glas
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Have a nice day, officer.
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What's your take on when the technology exists to directly interface to the human brain and just record anything that a person sees or hears?
Would you suggest that a person who is hooked up to such a whole-life recorder should also be treated as somebody who wants to invade on everybody's privacy?
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What makes you think you'd know how to tell who had such tech?
And what makes you think that somebody who happens to be using it is remotely interested in you in the first place? They aren't using it to record *you*, they are using it to record their own experiences, presumably to later catalogue them and store the more interesting events that might have happened, especially those that they don't realize they might have a need to recall with some accuracy until after the event has already occurred.
Yeah
Re: Actual concept not bad, just not possible yet (Score:2, Informative)
Anonymous person here. No offense intended, just trying to be helpful. The phrase is "per se", not par say. Just a little pedantry so that you can improve the appearance of your posts in the future. Have a good day!
Sheet music! (Score:2)
Honestly, sheet music is a pretty genius use for something like glass. That would be way better than paper music or tablets or whatever, especially for instruments you have to hold with your hands and use a stand for.
But I'd love this even for the piano.
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And cart around a stand in addition to your instrument.
Glass was a tech tragedy (Score:3)
Glass should never have been a consumer product. Hindsight 20/20, that was foolish of Google.
That said, Glass DOES have LOTS AND LOTS of obvious business related uses. Any professional, technician, or worker that uses their hands could have made a lot of use of this product. It's a tragedy it was killed. It should have just been rebranded and re-marketed to professional customers.
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The "killer app" was the ability to document things without needing to hold a laptop or tablet and have both hand free.
Think about surgeons. for one example. A surgeon could have a live video feed to a peer for a second opinion during operation all while having vital stats shown to the surgeon in real time without the doctor having to look up from his work.
Or consider a mechanic. A mechanic could have that car's manual visible in real time while working under the car.
Or consider a factory worker. They could
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I rather liked the solution to the spam problem. :)
If you liked the book, you might also like "The adolescence of P-1"
Glassholes indeed (Score:1)
I have never seen these things. But Ashland, KY is far from anywhere.
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I have never seen these things.
Hah! But they have seen you! You just didn't notice.
Stealthy Glassholes!
Has potential but... (Score:3)
Remember the story of a guy with GG who went into a bar (in Seattle I think) wearing them and got punched out, glasses broken. Why?
Theory: People HATE being recorded all the time, and REALLY hate being recorded in the bar. Maybe they're meeting someone they shouldn't be seeing. Maybe they are making a deal with someone. Whatever. Bars had always been the last bastion of private socialization.
Yeah cell phones can do it but video recording is obvious when they are doing it so you can defend yourself by shutting up and getting out of the camera eye. Some people use their cells to record audio but that's considered dirty. Prepare to be hated if you get caught.
The difference with GG is it made surveillance easy and obvious and personal. It became a focal point for society's brewing anger around being watched all the time. Knowledge is power, data-gathering is bullying.
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Recording audio is often prohibited, depending on your state. Video is generally acceptable. Audio is considered private because you can lean in and whisper, while video is considered public (in a public place) because you can see someone from across the room.
Glasshole term is wrong? (Score:2)
it seems wrong to regard the dwindling frequenters of /r/googleglass as Glassholes.
Based on what I see here on Slashdot the term Glasshole was used to describe generic use of google glass. A generalised statement along with a counter-intellectual assumption.
I originally thought it was something that Slashholes here came up with but apparently making broad negative generalisations about people is something that is done elsewhere too.