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What this will provide for disabled and autistic people is amazing. It's too easy to get caught up in the "social sharing" part of this and forget that somethin

What this will provide for disabled and autistic people is amazing. It's too easy to get caught up in the "social sharing" part of this and forget that something like this can really help change people's lives. Edit: To expand a bit, take an autistic adult that wants to do something, like go to the movies. It's simple for us, we wash up, get dressed, go outside, go down the straight, hope on the 132 Bus for 3 stops, get off, walk 2 blocks, pay for tickets, and go into theater number 5. For someone with autism, they can struggle with things like this. These glasses provide them with visual cues base upon their location, so when they finally do get to the theater, the glasses can show them what to do next, and give them that visual cue. Currently working on an app for tablets for this sort of things, but having it work in glasses would be simply amazing. God, what I wouldn't give to be apart of this.

trothamel 15y ago
I suspect that this will be a huge benefit to deaf people as well, once speech recognition works well enough.
- jasonlotito 15y ago
  The biggest benefit of this is it's inconspicuous nature. they are glasses. They aren't big cumbersome devices, and they aren't phones that you have to carry around in one hand to use. They're apart of you like no other device you carry.
- sp332 15y ago
  You wouldn't even necessarily need the speech "recognition" to resolve words completely, e.g. deciding which homonym is appropriate in a given context. Just representing incoming phonemes in IPA could be a great improvement. The human brain can translate this input on the fly just like it does with spoken words.
FredFredrickson 15y ago
I don't work with these types of people, so I might sound ignorant here, but it seems like glasses like these could add a lot of "noise" to the world of an autistic or disabled adult.
- jasonlotito 15y ago
  From the video, their is that potential yes. The idea isn't to just use what's in the video though. Rather, to use the technology behind the video to build technology that is made for them. Yes, the constant interruptions wouldn't be good, but that doesn't mean we couldn't build something for them using that same technology.
fudged 15y ago
It's too easy to get caught up in the "social sharing" It's also hard not to recognize that consumer technology shifts further towards entertainment than utility. It's bizarre and selfish how consumer technology alerts you immediately about friend requests but not local emergencies. It's bizarre and selfish how your phone can show people your apps, contacts, and calendar, but not emergency medical information. Having apps x, y, and z can someone solve these for an individual, but as a society we haven't progressed much with this technology. The idea that the person beside me might have a heart attack, and I'd have to navigate their phone to find an ICE contact just baffles the hell out of me.
- vectorpush 15y ago
  consumer technology shifts further towards entertainment than utility. It shifts towards whatever people will pay for. There are a lot more wallets interested in entertainment than local emergencies.
jberryman 15y ago
> God, what I wouldn't give to be apart of this. No idea what the odds are, but you should try to contact google (whatever that means). Seems like they would be all about having their magic glasses helping autistic folks.

trothamel 15y ago

I suspect that this will be a huge benefit to deaf people as well, once speech recognition works well enough.

jasonlotito 15y ago
The biggest benefit of this is it's inconspicuous nature. they are glasses. They aren't big cumbersome devices, and they aren't phones that you have to carry around in one hand to use. They're apart of you like no other device you carry.
sp332 15y ago
You wouldn't even necessarily need the speech "recognition" to resolve words completely, e.g. deciding which homonym is appropriate in a given context. Just representing incoming phonemes in IPA could be a great improvement. The human brain can translate this input on the fly just like it does with spoken words.

FredFredrickson 15y ago

I don't work with these types of people, so I might sound ignorant here, but it seems like glasses like these could add a lot of "noise" to the world of an autistic or disabled adult.

jasonlotito 15y ago
From the video, their is that potential yes. The idea isn't to just use what's in the video though. Rather, to use the technology behind the video to build technology that is made for them. Yes, the constant interruptions wouldn't be good, but that doesn't mean we couldn't build something for them using that same technology.

fudged 15y ago

It's too easy to get caught up in the "social sharing" It's also hard not to recognize that consumer technology shifts further towards entertainment than utility. It's bizarre and selfish how consumer technology alerts you immediately about friend requests but not local emergencies. It's bizarre and selfish how your phone can show people your apps, contacts, and calendar, but not emergency medical information. Having apps x, y, and z can someone solve these for an individual, but as a society we haven't progressed much with this technology. The idea that the person beside me might have a heart attack, and I'd have to navigate their phone to find an ICE contact just baffles the hell out of me.

vectorpush 15y ago
consumer technology shifts further towards entertainment than utility. It shifts towards whatever people will pay for. There are a lot more wallets interested in entertainment than local emergencies.

jberryman 15y ago

> God, what I wouldn't give to be apart of this. No idea what the odds are, but you should try to contact google (whatever that means). Seems like they would be all about having their magic glasses helping autistic folks.