Google Glass

Everything that's wrong with tech and yet I am somehow interested.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/22/4013406/i-used-google-glass-its-the-future-with-monthly-updates

Talked about like crazy here

would you wear those google-internet-cyborg glasses?

fucking Search refuses to read my mind

http://thenextweb.com/video/2013/05/01/google-glass-and-the-future-of-wearable-computing-with-andrew-keen-and-robert-scoble-video/

an exquisite video in which oblivious shitbag robert scoble (a) thinks everyone should like having a video camera pointed at their face (b) writes off tacit discomfort as people not magically understanding how this thing works (c) carries on with some ridiculous utopian bullshit of everyone bolting one of these things to their head (d) wears this thing when he's HAVING A SLASH AT A URINAL (e) blithely glosses over very real privacy concerns and (f) constantly CONSTANTLY interrupts the interviewer

i have not hated any one person this much in a very long time

he is such a blustering idiot that he seems more like an actor playing a blustering idiot than a real human being

oh god, wikipedia says he was a 'longhorn evangelist' at microsoft

Reception
Robert Scoble has received mixed reactions with his articles and videos, many of which are negative. He is credited with social media spam.

links to a reddit thread in which one person complains about him spamming, but still

never thought i'd see a "technology evangelist" answer a question about whether or not his cyberglasses might one day include a cell phone with "no -- because of battery life, weight, and cost." oh you mean the three things in tech that do nothing but go down.

except for battery life i mean that goes up

other than that the high point's prob when the other guy says that people might not like having cameras maybe-or-maybe-not pointed at them in the street and the longhorn evangelist explains, twice, like he wasn't understood the first time, that in america it is legal to take pictures of anyone you want in the street and "you can't do shit about it"

never thought i'd see a "technology evangelist" answer a question about whether or not his cyberglasses might one day include a cell phone with "no -- because of battery life, weight, and cost." oh you mean the three things in tech that do nothing but go down.

otm, the man's clearly got no idea about technology as well as social conventions (or was just being an obstructionist dick)

and the longhorn evangelist explains, twice, like he wasn't understood the first time, that in america it is legal to take pictures of anyone you want in the street and "you can't do shit about it"

add to that the incredibly loud body language of the interviewer (how he didn't whack scoble right there on the stage i don't know) and the whole thing would be an hilarious farce if scoble weren't a real person

his point was clearly that most people won't talk to anyone with a video camera strapped to their face, indicator light or otherwise. i straight up won't go near anyone with a spycam strapped to their face. you want to speak to me? remove your dorkpants video camera or fuck you, no third option.

also this covers a lot of the admirably idealist but still thoroughly misguided ui bullshit around ~being~ the interface for google glass

Designers at Fjord speculate that these kinds of body-based micro-interactions are the future of interface design. “Why swipe your arm when you can just rub your fingers together,” they write. “What could be more natural than staring at something to select it, nodding to approve something?… For privacy, you’ll be able to use imperceptible movements, or even hidden ones such as flicking your tongue across your teeth.”

http://www.boomeranghq.net/sites/www.boomeranghq.net/files/imagecache/character_image/characters/the-jetsons-george.gif

jane his wife

http://www.boomeranghq.net/sites/www.boomeranghq.net/files/imagecache/character_image/characters/the-jetsons-jane.gif

she's moving imperceptibly, right now

pinching your own right nipple (males only) brings up the text message feature. Nipple feature was disabled for females when they had pregnant women run it and it brought up confusion via the infant's grabbiness.

lactic feedback

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514136/your-body-does-not-want-to-be-an-interface/

otfm

so sick of ux nutbars wanting to co-opt my existence for their dumb shit. if i blink it's probably because i actually need to blink

i mean idealism experimentation art &c &c all fine, but if that scoble jerk comes anywhere near me i will spiflicate

lol

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/31/google-glass-drivers

The first drafts of “Super Sad” had a technology called The Eye, which was basically an äppärät inside a contact lens. My editor suggested that it was a little much, and it certainly was in 2008, at a time when even the first iterations of the iPhone seemed like they were beamed back to our world from some glorious future civilization in Cupertino. By 2013, having a miniature screen above my right eye tell me all about “Ashton Kutcher’s new job” feels about right.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/05/130805fa_fact_shteyngart?currentPage=all

Google Ass

what does it do?

It makes your ass ask questions

excited

you activate it by saying 'may i ASS you a question'

my man

Google Ass helps you ASSertain the truth

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/press-here/Google-Glass-Broke-Up-Founder-Sergey-Brins-Marriage-250217621.html

http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2014/04/sergey-brin-amanda-rosenberg-affair

i like "google glasses" btw joe, let's make that happen

i saw someone with one irl last week. i wish i had one so i couldve gone up to him and been like

http://abcnews.go.com/images/Technology/ht_google_glasses_shower_jef_130429_wblog.jpg

figured someone was going to post the Luxotica deal

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-25/google-to-de-dorkify-glass-in-partnership-with-ray-ban-maker-luxottica

While I thought it was going to be about Facebook buying Oculus Rift
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/25/facebook-buys-oculus-vr-a-virtual-reality-gaming-company-for-2-billion/

Remember the girl from the Bay Area who got "assaulted" for wearing google glass?

It turns out she was taunting people by calling them names and being a drunk asshole while she was recording the entire confrontation.

She also has been served two restraining orders in the past few years: the first from her own mother (!) for violence, and the second by her neighbors for recording them without their consent on her phone.

ie the perfect google glass customer if there ever was one

There have been some shitty male Glass customers in the news but for some reason the vitriol against this woman is 1000x more heated. I wonder if sexism is at all involved?!?!

post some more links about those guys and we'll be shitty to them too

I'm not talking about this thread ... I'm talking about stuff I've seen on Facebook and Twitter.

no but seriously post some more, little makes me feel more spiritually righteous than reading about face computer assholes

can you use these to make the world appear rotoscoped/cel-shaded yet

I wonder if sexism is at all involved?!?!

probably. but she also went overboard with publicizing it, calling a hatecrime etc., which upped the ante a bit.

a mature virtua boy

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Sarah-Slocum-the-infamous-face-of-Google-Glass-5348911.php

Jason McDonald, an Internet marketing consultant at JM Internet Group in San Jose, said Slocum's emergence comes as the public is looking for something tangible to latch onto in the debate over Glass.

"People are quick to condemn the person, or come to a person's defense, because they really hit a nerve on an issue," McDonald said. "In this case, she's become a flash point. She's like the guy in font of the tank at Tiananmen Square."

ALL THE STABS

don't blame me I voted for the tank

lol the descriptions I read of that made it sound like it was at some wrong-side-of-the-tracks bar full of toughs -- those people just look like punky grad students.

The San Mateo resident

yeah get out of my city you viper

I dunno, calling people bitch and white trash to their face in a bar is pretty much grounds for being assaulted what did she think was going to happen

The thing is I already have the bias that a person who would wear google glass into a bar like that would have to be an asshole, and that video just confirms my bias

someone wearing a really blatant $$$/status symbol calling other people white trash rmde

can't decide how i feel about this being the final ruling class of humanity

I had a bunch of snarky comments to post while watching this but then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN4sMISyYgk

All I can take away from this and the salad douchebag is that women are getting a raw deal with Google Glass®

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIzDsGyxsQM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DPF_pWIy3w

im waiting for some no name chinese company makes a 20$ version

is the point to make everyones life look like a crappy game of DOOM

Gonna be so glad I got my killing of Robot Hitler on tape. Hope PETA doesn't come after me about all those dogs.

That "Woman's Day" video could use a trigger warning.

would be cool to permanently have a clock in my field of vision, slowly ticking down, mb monitoring nmy

hmm, - mb monitoring my diet/vitals &c. to let me know how long I had left

I want a list of my inventories at the bottom of the display, and stock phrases I can choose from when conversing. "So ... tell me about Loom™"

wasnt tehre somethign in The Jerk where hsi special glasses made someone drive their car off a cliff - thats gonna happen with google glass

why is there no google dildo

I don't feel like that domestic violence video has a very high effectiveness:shock ratio.

why is there no google dildo

you know, for glassholes

https://twitter.com/kylebrussell/status/454811602923958272

is that locution, with no articles, no possessive pronouns, meant to make it more like a name (but all glassfaces happen to call it by the same name, like a million jerks who name their dogs 'rex') or more like every user's face is in contact with one and the same Glass for which they are just meat vehicles

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/14/tech/mobile/google-glass-attack/index.html

He was wearing, but not using, the eyewear "when a person put their hand on my face and yelled, 'Glass!' In an instant, the person was sprinting away, Google Glass in hand."

Russell says he ran after the woman, who then "pivoted, shifting their weight to put all of their momentum into an overhand swing. The Google Glass smashed into the ground, and they ran in another direction."

In the column, Russell said he thinks the protest and attack Friday were linked, though he does not think the woman who did it was at the march.

"My love for gadgets makes me look and sound like one of the people whom residents of the city have come to feel oppressed by," he wrote.
"The individual who smashed my Google Glass on Friday -- because of political beliefs or a personal impact that has been made by the tech industry -- felt that it was appropriate to destroy my personal property in protest against what I seemed to stand for, based on my appearance; never mind the irony in choosing to assault someone based on their appearance as a way to preserve San Francisco's culture," he wrote.
In recent months, tensions have run high in San Francisco over the perceived role that tech-industry giants have had on the city. Protesters complain that an influx of highly paid tech workers is driving up rents, forcing out longtime residents and robbing the city of its famously eccentric character.

Most of the anti-tech fervor has focused on big-name companies such as Google and Twitter and the private bus systems that ferry their employees from the city to various corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley.

But individual employees are increasingly being targeted, too.

Just last week, protesters picketed in front of the private home of Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg and now a partner with Google Ventures. The protesters, who posted signs calling Rose a "parasite," claimed his group, which helps Google decide which startups to invest money in, has helped to inflate prices in the city.

i don't understand how google glass is supposed to work, beyond it being an easier way to use, say, a gps, or as a convenient means of getting quick answers read back to you, in lieu of a google search where you stare at a monitor and operate a keyboard. but, if i want to read a newspaper or research a topic or play a game online, google glass isn't helpful at all, is it? it seems too close to your face to have any useful visual display applications.

well just think of how close your eyes are to your face, and they're like super useful

true

http://www.maniacworld.com/crazy-eyes.jpg

the only utility I see for this device is amateur porn. So WHERE IS IT?!?!?!?

Encountered my first Glass-wearer a couple of weeks ago at a medium-sized social event in NYC. The crowd there was mostly tech-ignorant - maybe a few people there were aware of the product but there was no rioting. Once you notice them, you're constantly aware of their presence - like when you first notice workplace surveillance cameras.

Do these things only respond to the masters voice? Cause otherwise you could prank people wearing them pretty easily

the only utility I see for this device is amateur porn. So WHERE IS IT?!?!?!?

the thought of porn with googly people in it makes me queasy

you have to have sex twice, in exactly the same way; the first time it's the woman wearing the google glass and the second time it's the guy, then you edit together and it looks like nobody's wearing it

the only utility I see for this device is amateur porn. So WHERE IS IT?!?!?!?

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, April 15, 2014 8:10 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

GoPro has this market cornered

http://www.glassandsex.com/

Happy to live in a small town where I'm not likely to meet anyone wearing these in a good long while yet.

Are there any good articles about what in the above-linked article is referred to as "the anti-tech fervor" in SF? That's the side of these recent stories that has struck me as most interesting. I gather it's in large part about how lots of rich technology workers have made the city more expensive and difficult to lie in for everyone else. Would love to see read more about that and about what other sides there are to the hostility.

When can I buy one of these???

http://i.imgur.com/pqRFj6X.jpg

the deluxe model

Google 'Stache

how to create your own glasshole-free zone

Well, sort of. The glasses have 12gb of free storage space, so people can still film you and upload it somewhere when they get home.

you have to have sex twice, in exactly the same way; the first time it's the woman wearing the google glass and the second time it's the guy, then you edit together and it looks like nobody's wearing it

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, April 15, 2014 4:47 AM (1 month ago)

Incredible post

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes/ko4azt/june-12--2014---christopher-walken

jason jones segment interviewing sarah slocum, other brave persecuted visionaries

http://coolgoogleglasswearers.tumblr.com/

ha, ok. good one.

http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/filmmakers-dramatic-spec-ad-google-glass-getting-lots-fans-including-google-160341
smart advertising; selling glass as a babelfish is the first argument i've heard in favor of getting one

i miss batshit glasshole stories, maybe they brought something useful to the rest of us after all

android wear is the thing now

So can anyone in SF tell me what actually is the deal with this kerfuffle over the Mission Park soccer field and some tech bros? (not actually a google glass issue but sounds like it might be a "File Under: Glasshole" kind of thing.

really the wrong thread but this assessment is pretty fair: http://missionlocal.org/2014/10/turf-wars-at-mission-soccer-field/

It sounds like ultimately this might really be the fault of a (maybe?) bad policy rather than the geeks, since they had in fact reserved the field through the city, but perhaps the introduction of a reservation system represents the encroachment of gentrification in an uncomfortable way.

perhaps

I only said perhaps because I don't know when the reservation system was actually enacted/whether it was the result of gentrification or whether it was more a policy that was in place but not previously used much.

Twitter drops Google Glass, app no longer available

I have now seen this thing exactly twice in the wild to date -- once on 3rd Ave in Manhattan, and then this past Sunday on some dude who wound up on the Jumbotron at the Nets game. I wonder if he had some kind of enhanced viewing experience going on.

I saw one of these this irl at a bar a while ago and was completely incensed the whole time

They are inherently stupid and douchey looking in a way that makes me feel IA.

i sit on a committee that approves (or not) proposals made by students and faculty for spending the student tech fee that amounts to gazillions of dollars a year. recently i got one from some dirtbag professor who wants the university (rather, the students) to buy him google glass--his rationale was that students would be able to text him questions (from inside the lecture hall) and they would appear on his glasses, thus facilitating ???????

I see these v occasionally around town - not v often, less so recently it seems like - and yeah it is p irritating

thus facilitating ???????

civilizational breakdown

Saw my first. In fact, seeing it now. He's sitting opposite me. Military green fleecejacket, combat pants, rucksack. Embarked at Blackheath, of course

ask him for directions

Really greasy hair, also typing to a phone, presumably playing COD with his ocular movements or something

okay glass, explode

ask to have your picture taken w him

He's now typing to TWO phones

And now got off the bus. I did not follow him home

yell "DEVO!" at him

Tell him "you're killing our city!"

Next time I shall ask him to order a pizza* without using his hands.

to the bus

lol

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-12/29/google-glass-enterprise-edition-confirmed

there is still hope for a new wave of google glass douchebag stories, since they are targeting the workplace now

Want one!!!

i miss google glass

where have all the douchebags gone

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Crxkc2uUIAAwgGS.jpg

one of my first memes pic.twitter.com/wuvBm1OZ9u

— Donald (@getfiscal) April 15, 2018

excellent

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/11/20959066/apple-augmented-reality-ar-headset-glasses-rumors-reported-release-date

Apple plans to release its first augmented reality headset in 2022, followed by a smaller device — a pair of AR glasses — in 2023, according to a new report from The Information.

Apple’s entry into the world of augmented reality has long been rumored, with many in the tech world seeing AR and VR as the next big platforms after mobile. But an exact entry date has been unclear, with some analysts suggesting a 2020 launch. Citing internal presentations made at Apple’s headquarters, The Information pushes this rumored timeline back to 2022, presumably due to difficulties in developing the technology.

As well as the new timeline, The Information’s report offers new detail about Apple’s AR headset, codenamed N301. The device supposedly resembles a slimmer version of the Oculus Quest, a virtual reality headset released in May. It has AR and VR capabilities, uses external cameras to map the user’s surroundings (including the outlines of people, furniture, and rooms), and has a high-resolution display to show information and blend virtual objects with the real world. Employees were told that the company would be reaching out to developers to build software for the headset from 2021.

After Apple has built this larger headset it plans to release a smaller pair of AR glasses. Unlike the headset, these will be designed to be worn for longer periods of time, with The Information reporting that “current prototypes look like high-priced sunglasses with thick frames that house the battery and chips,” according to a person who has seen prototypes. Apple has also reportedly explored lenses that darken when in operation, to signal to observers that the user is otherwise occupied.

SORRY DUDES. I'M ...

https://i.imgur.com/kM9weIx.jpg

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