Man, GG was be an absolute perfect fit for my job! I’m on my feet 24/7 yet I need constant access to a computer.
But I get the sense that my company would sooner buy us a “company prostitute” before they would buy us a GG.
It takes a while for new technology - *actual *new technology, like this - to catch on. Remember, they had cellphones in the 1980’s; it took a decade for them to start being adopted by the general public and only after they had undergone significant upgrades. The Google Glass is the current equivalent of the brick phone; we’ll have to wait a few years before we get something that’s actually mass-market ready (and will probably be indistinguishable from regular glasses).
Never mind regular glasses, they’re working on contact lenses that can do pretty much the same things. So someone could then be recording you and you’d never know unless you were looking them in the eye.
First, they’re going to have to come up with a version you can wear with prescription glasses. The current versions can’t - which is a big “F you” to those of us who need prescription lenses and for whom either surgery (yeah, great, I have to have surgery to use this tech toy? WTF?) or contacts are not an option. Ditto for industrial applications where protective eyewear is needed.
Edinburgh Airport in the UK are using the headsets in a trial scheme this year.
Precisely this. Google Glass was never truly intended as a consumer product as is, it’s an advanced prototype that was distributed to people to showcase and test the technology. But I can see why people are skeptical, Google is obviously a stupid company that can’t perceive that they would need to incorporate this feature into standard type eyewear. :rolleyes: Obviously they intend to stop further development and just shove this version down people throats because that would be what a successful company would do. You can show people the future, but you can’t make them like it. More fun to just make fun of it and do some name calling.
It would be quite difficult to build the Glass technology into something that looked like just any other pair of glasses, and impossible with anything remotely resembling current technology to do it with contact lenses. Humans can’t focus on something as close as the lens of a pair of glasses, so you need to use various optics to put the image further away, at least a foot or two. And unless you’re using holography (which is far, far away from being able to produce imagery on the fly, as would be needed for a computer display), that means you need a certain amount of space to fit those optics in. You’d have a much easier time replacing the eyeball entirely with a prosthetic.
I had an idea for Google Glass a while ago: a facial-recognition prosthesis. In a world where my phone is better at recognizing people than I am, it would be nice to have something that would look at the people I am looking at and pop up a reminder along the lines of, “This is Bob, VP of Sales. You’ve met him once before.”
They already have that. (Sans the you met him previously thing. That would a nice feature.)
Whatever happened to Bluetooth earpieces? They seemed to be pretty common about a decade ago.
They came out with that a few months ago. You have to get special frames that originally cost an extra $225 (and which are not very fashionable in my opinion). It appears the frames are now available at no extra cost. You also need special lenses that cost who-knows-how-much. They recommend using Glass with lenses no stronger than +/- 4.0 diopters. My current prescription for one eye is -4.25, but I could get by with -4.0 if I really wanted to buy Glass (which I don’t).
Just get one of those anti-googleglass repellers.
They are still around but in general a couple of things happened. One is that people don’t like to have to recharge theses type of things. Many people just don’t talk as much on the phone anymore, they text and send send Facebook messages.
I still have a pair of stereo one I use when I want to listen to music, never did care much for the single ear Borg like device. Just about as ugly as the present google glass IMO.
You’ll see dozens of people wearing them and talking into them in most airports. I’m talking passengers, not employees.
I think they’re more common than 10 years ago, not less. Not hugely more common, but somewhat. I also see people walking around downtown areas or in office buildings during the workday with them.
I think they’re probably not as common with kids in the mall as they used to be; that crowd is more into texting & wired music-listening to and rather less phone-yakking than was previously the case.
In my opinion, $225 isn’t unreasonable for titanium frames. My titaniums cost more, although they also are, in my opinion, a heck of a lot more attractive (or were, when I purchased them 15 years ago. They’ve acquired some wear in the meanwhile). Googeglass is overpriced enough I can see them folded the frame cost into the overall cost.
Unfortunately, my good side is at -8 diopters. So still no go for me although I view it as a move to accommodate the less than perfect so the direction is positive.
As much as I love technology in general and my smart phone in particular, I can’t see this ever happening with Google Glass. It’s been some years now since Sergei Brin suggested that it was somehow “emasculating” to interact with the screen of your smart phone; but then as now it seemed like a desperate attempt to invent a “problem” which Google Glass would fix.
From your other posts you seem to be reasonable and intelligent. You really spent serious money of attractive titanium frames?
I want inexpensive and serviceable.
Hell, the starship Voyager is made from titanium. 
Maybe they’re just more common by you, last person I saw wearing one was a courier and that was a few years back.
In simple terms, to use your cellphone/smartphone/tablet camera, you have to point the device at what/who you are recording and someone who is watching you will notice it. People may then take exception to those actions and ask you to leave them out of it. It has been understood, for instance, that a business owner can tell you to put cameras or recording devices away when in their premises, and show you the door if you do not comply. Yet there have been incidents of “glassholes” claiming it’s some sort of right to use the device at will in those same spaces.
Do any of you watch the Elders React series on youtube? They did one on Google Glass that was interesting.
I don’t understand your hostility here. Is everybody that makes something you can’t use yet saying “fuck you” to you?