The specs will come in four ranges called Bold, Curve, Thin and Split
No, they will come in four ranges called POSER, TWAT, ARSEHOLE, and WANKER
Many critics believe Google Glass is a threatening technology which could enable film piracy, erode personal privacy and bring about an era where we spend all our time plugged into the matrix. But all of those valid concerns miss one basic point about the Chocolate Factory's wearable computer: it looks bloody ridiculous. Now …
"You might find it bloody ridiculous, but I personally find it a step up from DesiGners sunglasses which make you look like a bee…"
I hate those things, human fly doesn't look appealing! They alone prove more money does not mean more sense. (Other tasteless tat: porche cayenne, anything with "i" in in it, the list goes on and on.....)
> a range of prescription glasses and lenses which can be used with Glass.
So you get your swanky (possibly sans the "s", depending on your view of GG) new specs and wear them while out. Suddenly a plastic piggie in a shopping centre comes up: "Nick-nick. Sorry sir/madam, you can't film in here." At which point you explain, politely, that you aren't filming and that the GG stuff is switched off. PP is adamant that you can't film and that you'll have to remove your specs - GG enabled, or not. At which point you comply and proceed to spend the rest of your shopping trip bumping into things and looking for the local Specsavers.
Repeat in the cinema - as one our our colonial cousins claimed to have done recently with GG enabled spectacles. Repeat again while driving - this time, the (unplastic) police-person has a nice twist. "Sorry sir/madam, you can't wear those while driving. What's that? You don't have a pair of ordinary glasses? Well then you'll have to leave your veHIKle and walk home. Yes I appreciate it's raining and you live 20 miles away. But roolz is roolz (and I am the law until your appeal comes through). You could always call a taxi .... you might even get some change from £50"
Short version: is the hassle involved, and the constant feeling that small children are laughing at you, worth the small and mostly imaginary benefits of owning a device that is frequently banned from use and doesn't really have any benefits over a search engine on a smartphone?
"Sorry sir/madam, you can't wear those while driving. "
But you can. You can have cameras all around your car filming everything you go past perfectly legally. I've had that confirmed to me by an officer from Dorset Police when I questioned them about how legal it was to have cameras fitted permanently to my (occasionally used on a race track, hence the need to ask the question) car.
As long as the glasses don't restrict your view then they are perfectly legal to use.
Tis not the filming, its the playback of video while driving, and obstructing your vision.
But considering they can be sure its on when yoru driving, or that it is doing something illegal, i.e. you could have it displaying your speed and nav, then they really can't stop you wearing it
"Tis not the filming, its the playback of video while driving, and obstructing your vision.
But considering they can be sure its on when yoru driving, or that it is doing something illegal, i.e. you could have it displaying your speed and nav, then they really can't stop you wearing it"
Lets not fool our selves people! You see drivers using mobile phones all the time. Those laws you speak of don't seem to deter people from break said laws!
In the UK at least, you are allowed to have screens or monitors on and visible to the driver if they are telling you about the condition or position of the vehicle. Examples include a screen showing information such as (k)mph, rpm, oil and tyre pressure, open doors, "GPS", and video including, but not limited to, reversing cameras. Some manufacturers are now fitting TV instead of rear view mirrors, on all the time, and there are trials of forward facing cameras using spectrum outside the normal range of the human eye to supplement driver's vision on a screen. There's nothing in law to stop you using your laptop or even your old CRT to rig up something like this, although the latter might prove cumbersome.
If the screens are positioned in such a way as to cause you to take your eye off the road for too long, and therefore becoming dangerous, that is a different issue and tackled with other legislation regarding drivers conduct. Google glass would seem to deal with that nicely so if it is in some way connected to senders in the car, that would place this information in the eyeline of the driver in an appropriate way, similar to the "heads up display" in the windscreens of some high end cars.
I suspect the legislation is broadly similar in other countries although there will be variations.
Sadly it doesn't matter for me. It looks like the screen is so small that I wouldn't be able to read it anyway. Which is a shame in some ways, as it would be great to have a camera on a glasses frame that I could use to read stupid signs in stations/airports that the designers just love to hang 20 feet in the air.
Actually the smartphone is winning on that. You can often get the departure boards on an app - and the nice ones tell you the platform as well.
In normal day-to-day life they look silly, but no sillier than the kit I already have to use. But there's no reason to care what people think about you, if you find the shiny-shiny useful. You migth get the odd techy who won't talk to you because you're wired for sound. But most normal people probably won't think about it.
I wonder why they don't project onto a glasses lens itself, rather than using that screen? It would be no good for people who need vision corrected before they can read - but I'd have thought it would be cheaper, and less obvious for everyone else.
Glass and the prescription lenses don't seem to be properly integrated. It looks like you are wearing two entirely separate items at the same time. They could have done a far better job.
Glass itself looks quite stylish. simply attaching some minimalist lenses to the cross-piece might have worked better aesthetically.
I have an issue where I can't see close things with my glasses on and can only see distant things. I can get bifocals but I didn't want to have to keep tilting my head up and down between blurry and non-blurry vision. The top of the glasses would be the distant vision so where this sits it at the top would not work for me. Also why can't these just be attached to regular glasses? Why the fuck do I have to buy a new pair of glasses? It's can't be hard to make a version that just clips to the side of regular glasses after all.
Tell me about the lenses. As a boat person, mine are polarized and I frequently have to tilt my head or the screen to see led displays because the polarization angle is often mismatched and the display is too dark to read easily. I assume the reason for the custom sunglasses is because they want to match up the polarization angle so that images in the Glass are clear but does this change the ability to filter reflected light from the water's surface, if they are indeed polarized of course. Not that I'd buy them mind you but I do know boaters who don't mind dropping super expensive glasses into the deep.
In this day and age of DRM takedowns, and after reading about the Quentin Tarantino and Gawker fiasco, I'd probably suggest not posting to a (possibly) copyright infrindging video on Youtube.
If that is a legit poster/user/youtube channel though, move along calmly. It's just strange you have not posted the official Youtube/Google link...
Whilst it may be easy enough to fool Daily Mail readers with this pleb-talk, techy people here are not so easy to fool.
The camera in Google Glass is only one part of the story (and no different from owning a smartphone with a camera). The real story of Google Glass, and the bit that offers REAL innovative ideas is the HUD.
Remember when we all dreamed of having head up displays that showed cool stuff, well it's happening, don't let the braindead plebs distract you with all the camera talk....
You can bet Microsoft is pulling the strings somewhere along the line, upto the eve they have something similar to sell, at which point, their spin armies will receive the order to suddenly call it cool...
"don't let the braindead plebs distract you with all the camera talk...."
I suspect a lot of the "camera talk" may also have to do with security and privacy issues about people being able to film hands-free without anyone else being aware.
In my workplace, there are quite strict (legislated) secrecy provisions, so it probably wouldn't be acceptable to have someone wandering around with a device that could film screens and/or documents without anyone knowing. And I'm sure we wouldn't be unique in having these concerns.
"I suspect a lot of the "camera talk" may also have to do with security and privacy issues about people being able to film hands-free without anyone else being aware."
What privacy? What, in public?
You obviously don't care that you are being recorded all the time in public places? Is it because you don't see the camera on someones head?
The reality is everyone is pictured, all the time, covert and overt. The only difference is you see the camera in your eye line. Would you be recording everything you do/see should you be a glass wearer? I wouldn't, you people are not interesting enough to me. It is paranoia leading you to believe that another member of the public is taking pictures of you?
Glass has the potential to change our world. If you see a speed camera, you slow down, you change your behaviors. Seeing cameras in your line of sight will change your behaviors too.
No one likes to think they are being watched, but you are! All the time, in public places. The only privacy you have is off-line behind closed doors.
The difference between using a camera and glass is that a camera is obvious when in use, i.e. you lift up your phone and take a pic while pointing the phone at someone. If you wear prescription glass then you will be wearing them in a lot of inappropriate locations, from my POV, i.e. when I am taking a waz in a cubical and you walk in with your glass on.
How do I know you didn't forget to turn of the camera / video function??? I have to take your word for it? get real lol.
A HUD I can understand, and see a lot of useful things for, i.e. car, directions, information, but the camera is what lets it down imo remove that and you have a product which doesn't impact privacy.
+1 Sir. Or how silly people looked with early mobile phones. How about how silly people looked driving a horseless carriage, or when they attached miniature clocks to their wrists. Or how stupid people looked when they first wore shoes or walked upright. Tech obviously gets smaller and cleverer all the time. People are going to wear it as well as carry it. It's inevitable.
If someone walked around all day holding their smartphone outstretched in front of them as if they are videoing, I suspect there would be plenty of people who would object and there would be plenty of places glassholes would be banned from.
Initially GG will go largely unhindered until the youtube videos start appearing of people's privacy being severely compromised. After one or two notable events there will be a large backlash against GG and many nations will introduce legislation curbing their use. Popular consensus will hold glassholes with contempt and many people will lose any inhibitions about reacting indignantly towards the wearers. Glass will become 'niche' and only used by some in private.
If there was any way I could make money from this prediction, I would invest my own cash now, if I had any.