Driving Google Glass?

dickygrace

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It all depends on how good it is really, can't say without an accurate product review.
 
CatmanV2

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I'm intrigued at the strength of your reaction, Shak. Personally I won't be early adopting as the functionality is too limited, but it;s been clear (to me at least) for some time that the current touchscreen or clamshell form factors with some type of keyboard interface is just not sustainable for technological devices.

I wonder if Google should actually have just made it an interface device and left much more of the compute power in some off board device, such as a phone.

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mowlas

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I agree it's a gut reaction and wondered why I felt so strongly about it. I guess it's something about the 'Facebook generation' where it all seems to be about trying to convince others that you have an interesting life (by sharing every darn moment) rather than just actually living and experiencing the moment as it happens...

Also I don't like the fact that Facebook owns our images and photos. There's perhaps some deep wisdom in the fabled adage about cameras stealing our souls :/
 
Felonious Crud

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Look silly. Handy for satnav. I'd be uncomfortable taking to someone who's wearing them because I wouldn't know what information they might be looking at while we're talking.
 
CatmanV2

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Heh. I hear you. Not sure it's actually about trying to convince others that you have an interesting life, but it rather can look like it from the outside.

Even as a die hard techy, (**** it's what I do for a living FFS) I reject some of it, but only because it doesn't solve any problem I have. I *do* have a problem with keyboards and tiny screens though, so I'm interested in glass *like* things. Certainly not interested enough to try them in their current state, though :)

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CatmanV2

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AdamN said:
Look silly. Handy for satnav. I'd be uncomfortable taking to someone who's wearing them because I wouldn't know what information they might be looking at while we're talking.
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Interesting. Currently you don't know what someone is thinking while you're talking to them. Given that information is stored in the brain, I can be 'looking' at info while we're talking even now. For some reason you don't find this a problem.

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Felonious Crud

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CatmanV2 said:
Interesting. Currently you don't know what someone is thinking while you're talking to them. Given that information is stored in the brain, I can be 'looking' at info while we're talking even now. For some reason you don't find this a problem.

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It provides the wearer with a possible advantage in that they can look up information on me, say my LinkedIn profile, while I'm still struggling to remember where I last met them. I suppose that they have to talk to the thing to make it do anything means that they would need to have a chat with it first. The possibility of adding facial recognition software would make it almost sinister.
 
highlander

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to some degree, I can see where shak is coming from on this. I too have been watching the updates on GG with an almost constant expression of dumbfounded bewilderment on my face. I just cannot see it fitting into my life, again probably because the likes of twitter, facebook and the likes have by in large passed me by as "not required" to get by...........or maybe as I get older I'm just getting more technophobic:unsure:but, I watched a recent report, on Click I think, where they have been testing GG out in a warehouse with employees who make orders up. yes, there were increases in production time and reductions in order mistakes but the feedback from the workers was that they progressively felt more and more like a replacement for a machine, not needing to think about what they were doing..........
 
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AdamN said:
It provides the wearer with a possible advantage in that they can look up information on me, say my LinkedIn profile, while I'm still struggling to remember where I last met them. I suppose that they have to talk to the thing to make it do anything means that they would need to have a chat with it first. The possibility of adding facial recognition software would make it almost sinister.
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Yep. I just don't get this, though. I have (perhaps) a good memory, so things that I looked up on your LinkedIn profile I can recall while you're struggling to remember where we last met (this isn't true by the way, but it could be) I have a possible advantage, but it's not something that you're going to get het up over.
I do facial recognition every day. I'm not normally considered to be *too* sinister ;)
The voice control won't last anyway. There will be more transparent interfaces along soon.

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Felonious Crud

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Perhaps I just suspicious of the unknown. :smile: Need to try it.

Still think it's perfect for satnav / as a cheaper alternative to the BMW head-up display.
 
CatmanV2

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highlander said:
to some degree, I can see where shak is coming from on this. I too have been watching the updates on GG with an almost constant expression of dumbfounded bewilderment on my face. I just cannot see it fitting into my life, again probably because the likes of twitter, facebook and the likes have by in large passed me by as "not required" to get by...........or maybe as I get older I'm just getting more technophobic:unsure:but, I watched a recent report, on Click I think, where they have been testing GG out in a warehouse with employees who make orders up. yes, there were increases in production time and reductions in order mistakes but the feedback from the workers was that they progressively felt more and more like a replacement for a machine, not needing to think about what they were doing..........
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Greg, I can totally get this. But it's a choice, isn't it. I don't do the FB, or Twitter thing much, so I have no need of it as it currently is.
As for the warehouse worker comments, that's going to be a people management issue, not a technology one, I feel.

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CatmanV2

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AdamN said:
Perhaps I just suspicious of the unknown. :smile: Need to try it.

Still think it's perfect for satnav / as a cheaper alternative to the BMW head-up display.
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Very interesting. In fact I would suggest that sat nav where we usually use it (in cars) is the worst use case. You don't need to be wearing glasses when you're surrounded by potential display devices. Heads up displays in cars will become the norm, and probably a no cost option.

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safrane

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No doubt it will be on every teenagers head in a few years and they will be even less connected with reality and life around them than they are now...god help us. People seem to be unable to detach themselves from their phone as it is and walk about like zombies on mobiles.

I hate mobile phones, and wish they had never been invented...god how I miss my own personal space without someone from work ringing me whilst I'm on holiday, not at work, trying to spend quite time etc...and don't get me started on those fu*kwits who keep telling me I have PPI or millions from tripping over an aphids ankle and I can sue the world...or that I have won an Ipad...
 
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AdamN said:
I test drive a 5-series with the head up display. Absolutely brilliant.
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My C6 had HUD and it's the thing I miss most about that car. It's simply brilliant: an accurate, almost subliminal, read-out of your speed at all times saved me around quite a few cameras.


Google Glass is in a bit of a nerds only phase of development. It, or its replacement, will become smaller and smaller so as to be totally unobtrusive. It will pass from being a nerd's toy to being mainstream useful. Just look at the history of the cellular telephone.
 
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safrane said:
I hate mobile phones, and wish they had never been invented...god how I miss my own personal space without someone from work ringing me whilst I'm on holiday, not at work, trying to spend quite time etc...and don't get me started on those fu*kwits who keep telling me I have PPI or millions from tripping over an aphids ankle and I can sue the world...or that I have won an Ipad...
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Simple, have a personal mobile and switch your work mobile off when not at work!
Holidays especially, my work mobile is redirected to the office switchboard, i'm on holiday, end of!
 
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safrane said:
I hate mobile phones, and wish they had never been invented...god how I miss my own personal space without someone from work ringing me whilst I'm on holiday, not at work, trying to spend quite time etc...and don't get me started on those fu*kwits who keep telling me I have PPI or millions from tripping over an aphids ankle and I can sue the world...or that I have won an Ipad...
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..........and now, breath in, breath out..........:lol2:
 
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