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The little HUD is cute (720p res, HDMI in, $200 from amazon) but Google Glass was obnoxious enough as an Apple product. A DIY one is cringe.

jthrowsitaway 5y ago
I think I might understand what you're trying to say, but calling Google Glass (a specific thing) an Apple product is strange.
- onion2k 5y ago
  I think the point is that it was deliberately conspicuous - people wanted to be seen with it in order to show how they were wealthy, intelligent, geeky, etc. There's a contingent of Apple users who are the same but I do t think that's Apple's fault.
  - ryanmcbride 5y ago
    That's what turned me off of it almost right away, but on the other hand I think it's best for people to be aware of when there's a camera pointed at them, and that was pretty unmistakable with glass. The obvious downside is that people usually don't like if a stranger is pointing a camera at them, so you have to either control for the comfort of the user (not standing out) or everyone around them (not making it easy to secretly film them). Like sure, everyone has a phone that's more than capable of secretly filming things, but walking up to someone wearing glass feels the same to me as walking up to them with your phone up with the camera pointed right at them. I've recently been interested in Rayban stories. Basically sunglasses with cameras and bone conduction speakers. I'm interested primarily because of the speakers, because earbuds don't fit my ears well, but it's still pretty obvious that they have cameras in them which makes me a little self conscious about wearing them.
- throwaway81523 5y ago
  Whoops, accident, and I can't edit any more. Not sure how I blurred Google and Apple together. Meant Google product. Sorry.
  - iso1210 5y ago
    You can only edit for I think 2 hours after posting. You get fainter when you get voted down a few points.
numpad0 5y ago
Computing had always been cringe, but exemptions are made so long it makes money, by minimum amounts necessary. From Apple I to Amiga to MacBooks in Starbucks it's all it, but no one calls it for Tim Cook while he turns aluminium into gold on stage.
- throwaway81523 5y ago
  Google glass was especially cringe because of how it put surveillance straight into other people's personal space. Some nerd with a laptop typing away = no big deal unless she or he is keeping others from getting a seat.
  - tuckerman 5y ago
    Did it introduce surveillance into private spaces more than camera phones? Or ray bans that look almost like normal sunglasses but with a camera in them? If I wanted to take pictures/videos of others I can think of many less conspicuous ways of doing it than strapping an bright orange camera with a screen that glows to my head.

jthrowsitaway 5y ago

I think I might understand what you're trying to say, but calling Google Glass (a specific thing) an Apple product is strange.

onion2k 5y ago
I think the point is that it was deliberately conspicuous - people wanted to be seen with it in order to show how they were wealthy, intelligent, geeky, etc. There's a contingent of Apple users who are the same but I do t think that's Apple's fault.
- ryanmcbride 5y ago
  That's what turned me off of it almost right away, but on the other hand I think it's best for people to be aware of when there's a camera pointed at them, and that was pretty unmistakable with glass. The obvious downside is that people usually don't like if a stranger is pointing a camera at them, so you have to either control for the comfort of the user (not standing out) or everyone around them (not making it easy to secretly film them). Like sure, everyone has a phone that's more than capable of secretly filming things, but walking up to someone wearing glass feels the same to me as walking up to them with your phone up with the camera pointed right at them. I've recently been interested in Rayban stories. Basically sunglasses with cameras and bone conduction speakers. I'm interested primarily because of the speakers, because earbuds don't fit my ears well, but it's still pretty obvious that they have cameras in them which makes me a little self conscious about wearing them.
throwaway81523 5y ago
Whoops, accident, and I can't edit any more. Not sure how I blurred Google and Apple together. Meant Google product. Sorry.
- iso1210 5y ago
  You can only edit for I think 2 hours after posting. You get fainter when you get voted down a few points.

numpad0 5y ago

Computing had always been cringe, but exemptions are made so long it makes money, by minimum amounts necessary. From Apple I to Amiga to MacBooks in Starbucks it's all it, but no one calls it for Tim Cook while he turns aluminium into gold on stage.

throwaway81523 5y ago
Google glass was especially cringe because of how it put surveillance straight into other people's personal space. Some nerd with a laptop typing away = no big deal unless she or he is keeping others from getting a seat.
- tuckerman 5y ago
  Did it introduce surveillance into private spaces more than camera phones? Or ray bans that look almost like normal sunglasses but with a camera in them? If I wanted to take pictures/videos of others I can think of many less conspicuous ways of doing it than strapping an bright orange camera with a screen that glows to my head.