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I know Glass, or something like it, will be great. But I don't know which combination of features + killer app will unlock the thing. HN has probably mentioned

I know Glass, or something like it, will be great. But I don't know which combination of features + killer app will unlock the thing. HN has probably mentioned this before but is there a reason Google makes announcements on Medium and not on Blogger? I would do the same thing if I had a choice, but Google could just make the formatting on Blogger better.

ben_jones 9y ago
Automatically send the last 24hr of visual to fast-track airport security?
- projectramo 9y ago
  This sends a clear message to all would-be assailants: wait at least a day after your planning is complete.
  - saimiam 9y ago
    The history of you.
    - projectramo 9y ago
      We can already obsess about memories using social media, but this would take it to level 3.
      - saimiam 9y ago
        Oh man, if you haven't seen that black mirror episode, you should stop any other binge watching and watch it. It's amazing.
        projectramo 9y ago
        I have seen it! That's why I made a reference to obsessing about our memories. I am a huge black mirror fan.
eterm 9y ago
For me it would be facial recognition crossed with something like linkedin. I really struggle with recognising people and it has a large impact on how well I can network at informal events such as tech meetups. Others will recognise each other from similar events and sometimes might recognise me "Oh weren't you at <X>?". At which point I look very rude when I have no idea whatsoever who they are. So some tech to aid recognition and the ability to add a few notes such as their line of business would be something I'd happily spend a lot of money on. But early on glass said "no access to facial recognition APIs" which killed my interest in it's first incarnation.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago
  The problem is - most of the cool and useful personal applications of glass fly in the face of various social expectations. The very idea you could be recording someone caused a backlash the last time, and that's nowhere near doing facial recognition...
  - eterm 9y ago
    Is facial recognition creepier than recording? If it's done in real-time, i.e. the scanned images aren't saved then surely a "This is person <X> you've met and tagged as X" is less creepy than actually videoing someone? You wouldn't get any information you haven't yourself added to the device (although it would probably need to lean on external data-sets for the training). I wouldn't suggest facial recognition should recognise anyone you haven't met yet, I think that would be a bit weird (although I think it is the future anyway), but a way to effectively add a tag on someone you know would be great. Most people can do this without the technology to varying levels of accuracy and and breadth of their acquaintances.
    - TeMPOraL 9y ago
      I think it is creepier by definition, through the very fact that the other person can't verify you aren't recording. A camera is a camera. Even if the product officially doesn't record anything, who's to say I didn't mod my glasses' firmware to dump the video buffer? Not to mention that once video stream goes into cloud, you lose control over what happens to it.
dmurray 9y ago
> HN has probably mentioned this before but is there a reason Google makes announcements on Medium and not on Blogger? They mix it up: the "Transfer Appliance" announcement also on the HN front page is on googleblog.com. Different teams of course. https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/07/introducing-Transfer-Appliance-Sneakernet-for-the-cloud-era.html?m=1 https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/07/introducing-Tra...
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  > They mix it up: the "Transfer Appliance" announcement also on the HN front page is on googleblog.com. Different teams of course. Not just different teams, different companies. Glass is X, and they don’t use Google Blogger. Transfer Appliance is Google, and they do use Google Blogger. Both Google and X are Alphabet subsidiaries, but they aren’t the same company.
dragonwriter 9y ago
> HN has probably mentioned this before but is there a reason Google makes announcements on Medium and not on Blogger? X’s blog is on Medium, not Blogger, but X is not Google, it’s a separate subsidiary of Alphabet.

ben_jones 9y ago

Automatically send the last 24hr of visual to fast-track airport security?

projectramo 9y ago
This sends a clear message to all would-be assailants: wait at least a day after your planning is complete.
- saimiam 9y ago
  The history of you.
  - projectramo 9y ago
    We can already obsess about memories using social media, but this would take it to level 3.
    - saimiam 9y ago
      Oh man, if you haven't seen that black mirror episode, you should stop any other binge watching and watch it. It's amazing.
      - projectramo 9y ago
        I have seen it! That's why I made a reference to obsessing about our memories. I am a huge black mirror fan.

eterm 9y ago

For me it would be facial recognition crossed with something like linkedin. I really struggle with recognising people and it has a large impact on how well I can network at informal events such as tech meetups. Others will recognise each other from similar events and sometimes might recognise me "Oh weren't you at <X>?". At which point I look very rude when I have no idea whatsoever who they are. So some tech to aid recognition and the ability to add a few notes such as their line of business would be something I'd happily spend a lot of money on. But early on glass said "no access to facial recognition APIs" which killed my interest in it's first incarnation.

TeMPOraL 9y ago
The problem is - most of the cool and useful personal applications of glass fly in the face of various social expectations. The very idea you could be recording someone caused a backlash the last time, and that's nowhere near doing facial recognition...
- eterm 9y ago
  Is facial recognition creepier than recording? If it's done in real-time, i.e. the scanned images aren't saved then surely a "This is person <X> you've met and tagged as X" is less creepy than actually videoing someone? You wouldn't get any information you haven't yourself added to the device (although it would probably need to lean on external data-sets for the training). I wouldn't suggest facial recognition should recognise anyone you haven't met yet, I think that would be a bit weird (although I think it is the future anyway), but a way to effectively add a tag on someone you know would be great. Most people can do this without the technology to varying levels of accuracy and and breadth of their acquaintances.
  - TeMPOraL 9y ago
    I think it is creepier by definition, through the very fact that the other person can't verify you aren't recording. A camera is a camera. Even if the product officially doesn't record anything, who's to say I didn't mod my glasses' firmware to dump the video buffer? Not to mention that once video stream goes into cloud, you lose control over what happens to it.

dmurray 9y ago

> HN has probably mentioned this before but is there a reason Google makes announcements on Medium and not on Blogger? They mix it up: the "Transfer Appliance" announcement also on the HN front page is on googleblog.com. Different teams of course. https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/07/introducing-Transfer-Appliance-Sneakernet-for-the-cloud-era.html?m=1 https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/07/introducing-Tra...

dragonwriter 9y ago
> They mix it up: the "Transfer Appliance" announcement also on the HN front page is on googleblog.com. Different teams of course. Not just different teams, different companies. Glass is X, and they don’t use Google Blogger. Transfer Appliance is Google, and they do use Google Blogger. Both Google and X are Alphabet subsidiaries, but they aren’t the same company.

dragonwriter 9y ago

> HN has probably mentioned this before but is there a reason Google makes announcements on Medium and not on Blogger? X’s blog is on Medium, not Blogger, but X is not Google, it’s a separate subsidiary of Alphabet.