Glassholes will be getting plenty of one-fingered salutes, wherever they go.
This pinch-zoom cleverness could get them punched in the face real hard too.
Wonder what the EULA says about Glass breakage due to getting hit in the face.
The user interface for Google's forthcoming tech specs, aka Google Glass, may feature a two-fingered salute and a wink. The source for this supposition is a Redditor by the name of Fodawim who says he or she has peered into the code of the Google Glass companion app and found the following text: "BROWSER_TWO_FINGER_ZOOM" " …
Facial-recognition software determines that the person you're looking at has winked. It then determines sex and looks up your personal preferences. If appropriate it then searches for local hotels and presents a pre-filled booking form for the nearest hotel for your approval (or a list of your favourite chat-up lines if you're not that confident).
Oooh, might need to get me one ot these then.
As a note, years ago I wanted to get a set of the Vuzix Wrap 1200AR, the VR glasses with a 3d camera on front. My distance vision is shockingly bad, was hoping I could set up some functions like zoom, or spot tracking, see if it would improve anything.
Why? Why not?
Seemed like a fun hobby, but alas, too expensive for my blood.
Did you notice that this site mainly focuses on IT? I bet that greater than 90% of the readers spend at least 7 hours a day with a display sat at a fixed focal distance, and I bet that there is a higher percentage of glass wearers in the readership than in the general population - so, yep I reckon you're right but what has that got to do with Google Glass?
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To wit...The user interface for Google's forthcoming tech specs, aka Google Glass, may feature a two-fingered salute and a wink.
Someone soon is going to get a right slap on the 8:15 from Dorking as the guy opposite the guy with Google Glass on thinks the other bloke is taking the piss with all the funny blinking.
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Whilst I'm unhappy with the idea of 24/7 surveillance, you can't just attack people who are making video-recordings in a public place. Are you going to ram me off the road because I have a dashboard camera?
Anyway, people who want to take hidden video have far better options than Google Glasses, as a quick search on your favourite search engine will confirm. And those wanting to use such facilities for perving would, I guess, prefer to record straight to SD card than risk storing evidence against themselves in the cloud!
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Better to find an alternative solution to attack. Maybe wearing glasses that have a bright IR light that will overload the camera on the Google Glasses. I should patent the idea - if enough people find the idea of Google Glasses wearers recording everything all the time a bit creepy (especially if done in bathrooms, locker rooms, around schools, etc.) this idea might catch on, at least for sunglasses. The camera on Google Glasses would become useless anytime they're out in public among very many people, and as a side benefit, you would defeat the face recognition in any fixed CCTV camera you happened to look at.
That people are queing up to have these glasses that turn the wearer into a comodity for google, a company that has no other motive than to expolit data about people for profit.
No doubt it'll be a great success as the usual crowd of people decide that they will look fucking awesome in front of their peers wearing google glasses and doing all hand gestures and shit.
And all that is different to using smart phones, all reporting back to base/into the cloud, - how?
Not that I intend to buy Google Glasses (not that rich), but all this venom and threatened violence against people with G'G's is strangely reminiscent of how you used to be treated for owning (and using in public) a simple PDA back in the day - now everyone has a 'phone...