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> Most of these are basically simple things you can already do on your phone- checking the weather Ha! I'm very, very excited about Glass for the weather oppor

by cryptoz 14y ago

> Most of these are basically simple things you can already do on your phone- checking the weather Ha! I'm very, very excited about Glass for the weather opportunities, actually. The data collection that Glass will offer with regards to the weather is going to be incredible. With a simple app that pings outside Glass wearers, I'll be able to automatically gather incredible amounts of valuable weather data. I'm doing this on phones right now, too, of course [1]. But Glass opens up whole new doors that the author of this post is completely missing. Author, if you're reading this: You're making the assumption that nobody will innovate, nobody will build anything new that would provide unique value to the device. You're wrong. [1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbus.barometernetwork https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu...

PanMan 14y ago
How would this work, assuming Glass doesn't have a air-pressure sensor? That's the main thing you are using now, right? Would you ask people to take pics of the sky? What does Glass add that currently isn't possible WRT gathering data? Serious question.
- cryptoz 14y ago
  Those are excellent questions. I obviously hope Glass has a barometer but I highly doubt it will, since it is likely going to use phones to handle GPS and similar operations. So assuming it doesn't have one: > Would you ask people to take pics of the sky? Yeah, maybe. I'll add more to that below. > What does Glass add that currently isn't possible WRT gathering data? Since we don't know the hardware specs in very much detail, the only functionality that we know for sure that will be helpful is the camera. The key difference between this camera and a phone camera is that this one is on the user's head. Asking users to take sky photos is likely much less intrusive through Glass than through a phone. But asking them to do this isn't really our style: The original Glass demo video showed the wearer just looking at the sky in order to have weather information delivered [1]. I was imagining something like this for pressureNET. If I could hook into that same operation, I'd be able to automatically take a photo of the sky whenever the user intentionally looks up. Imagine millions of people every day looking at the sky. So. Much. Data. And of course, this is only using the camera that we know is there. We'll have to learn more about how Glass actually works and what developers will be allowed to access in terms of background functionality. [1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4
  - PanMan 14y ago
    Thanks for explaining! That sounds like a great idea. From what I read, Glass does have Wifi & GPS, but no cell connectivity. Millions of pics of the sky sounds like a great challenge to process. OTOH, even without processing it would be cool: Show me a recent pic of the sky in location X. Privacy might be an issue tho.
  - Erwin 14y ago
    CrowdEyes (or alternative, EyeBay or GlassBay). Crowd-sourced public surveillance auction platform. It's legal to take pictures in public, right? After installing CrowdEyes on your Google Glass, your Glass will automatically take pictures every so often, or whenever you think you saw something interesting. Those get aggregated and categorized. As a client of CrowdEyes you can then say: I'd like to be 25 cents to see pictures people have taken of the sky today in my town. Or, I'll pay 50 cents to see what the lines are outside some hip new restaurant right now. Or as a jealous wife, I'll pay $15 to run facial recognition on pictures taken with Glass in a 3-block area around the house of a suspected mistress. As a law enforcement officer, I'll request (for free) all pictures taken of of my suspect. Or maybe multiple vantage points of some crime that was committed. Or if someone is out there and running, maybe I can request all Glass within the suspect area to be on real-time lookout for the suspect. Think about that "Ambert Alert" system times 1000. As a marketing manager at some Big Brand , I can find some perhaps anonymized informationa bout who's using my products (easiest with things that have logos, can you make a watermark in clothes that would not be noticable but visible when analysing a high resolution photo?) As a reporter, I can get hundreds of shots of some event and pick the best. As the TV report on the new Glass-24 channel, I can get multiple real-time streams from some disaster happening.
jjoonathan 14y ago
* Google maps for the interiors of buildings. * Recording. Glasses make it difficult to tell if someone is recording, making the act socially acceptable in many places it would otherwise not be.
- evilduck 14y ago
  My bet is that Google Glasses wearers will be ostracized because news will quickly spread that wearers could be filming you without your knowledge. Think of the children.

by cryptoz 14y ago

PanMan 14y ago

How would this work, assuming Glass doesn't have a air-pressure sensor? That's the main thing you are using now, right? Would you ask people to take pics of the sky? What does Glass add that currently isn't possible WRT gathering data? Serious question.

cryptoz 14y ago
Those are excellent questions. I obviously hope Glass has a barometer but I highly doubt it will, since it is likely going to use phones to handle GPS and similar operations. So assuming it doesn't have one: > Would you ask people to take pics of the sky? Yeah, maybe. I'll add more to that below. > What does Glass add that currently isn't possible WRT gathering data? Since we don't know the hardware specs in very much detail, the only functionality that we know for sure that will be helpful is the camera. The key difference between this camera and a phone camera is that this one is on the user's head. Asking users to take sky photos is likely much less intrusive through Glass than through a phone. But asking them to do this isn't really our style: The original Glass demo video showed the wearer just looking at the sky in order to have weather information delivered [1]. I was imagining something like this for pressureNET. If I could hook into that same operation, I'd be able to automatically take a photo of the sky whenever the user intentionally looks up. Imagine millions of people every day looking at the sky. So. Much. Data. And of course, this is only using the camera that we know is there. We'll have to learn more about how Glass actually works and what developers will be allowed to access in terms of background functionality. [1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4
- PanMan 14y ago
  Thanks for explaining! That sounds like a great idea. From what I read, Glass does have Wifi & GPS, but no cell connectivity. Millions of pics of the sky sounds like a great challenge to process. OTOH, even without processing it would be cool: Show me a recent pic of the sky in location X. Privacy might be an issue tho.
- Erwin 14y ago
  CrowdEyes (or alternative, EyeBay or GlassBay). Crowd-sourced public surveillance auction platform. It's legal to take pictures in public, right? After installing CrowdEyes on your Google Glass, your Glass will automatically take pictures every so often, or whenever you think you saw something interesting. Those get aggregated and categorized. As a client of CrowdEyes you can then say: I'd like to be 25 cents to see pictures people have taken of the sky today in my town. Or, I'll pay 50 cents to see what the lines are outside some hip new restaurant right now. Or as a jealous wife, I'll pay $15 to run facial recognition on pictures taken with Glass in a 3-block area around the house of a suspected mistress. As a law enforcement officer, I'll request (for free) all pictures taken of of my suspect. Or maybe multiple vantage points of some crime that was committed. Or if someone is out there and running, maybe I can request all Glass within the suspect area to be on real-time lookout for the suspect. Think about that "Ambert Alert" system times 1000. As a marketing manager at some Big Brand , I can find some perhaps anonymized informationa bout who's using my products (easiest with things that have logos, can you make a watermark in clothes that would not be noticable but visible when analysing a high resolution photo?) As a reporter, I can get hundreds of shots of some event and pick the best. As the TV report on the new Glass-24 channel, I can get multiple real-time streams from some disaster happening.

jjoonathan 14y ago

* Google maps for the interiors of buildings. * Recording. Glasses make it difficult to tell if someone is recording, making the act socially acceptable in many places it would otherwise not be.

evilduck 14y ago
My bet is that Google Glasses wearers will be ostracized because news will quickly spread that wearers could be filming you without your knowledge. Think of the children.