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Sergey Brin TED talk about Project Glass (fun about yahoo and bing)
- infoman 14y agowtf is wrong with his hair?
- sdoering 14y agoThat's really all you have to ask? Interesting...
- infoman 14y agoI know all other official stuff about Glass :_)
- photorized 14y agoNobody does though. I don't think even Google knows what to do with Glass (or how to sell it) just yet.
- rdl 14y agoMaybe it was set up that way to hide the electronics on the back of Glass?
- hipsters_unite 14y agoEven if Glass isn't the right implementation, I love the fact that Google are trying to make something Minority Report-level wacky a mainstream consumer item.
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- RyanMcGreal 14y agoThat felt a lot more awkward than I expected.
- psbp 14y agoNo kidding. The awkwardness never really let up.
- iagomr 14y agoStill don't like it. Maybe we'll be the ones that people laugh at in the future, like we do now with the ones that said that Internet was just a fad. But consider, doesn't this mean that many people will let computerized glasses do all the thinking for them? It has been very much debated how now we don't memorize so many information anymore, as we can easily just solve an argument with a simple search on our phones. But this Google Glass is just taking it to another level..
- infoman 14y agoTalking will maybe become more philosophical? Everybody will know facts but we will think about how to interpret and use them in a way with more foresight and impact on the whole univers
- hipsters_unite 14y agoThere's a few good Alastair Reynolds short stories where characters have a Glass-like assistant called an 'Aide Memoire' which they use to process the amount of information they get due to networks. A good side effect is also that as the characters age they still have recall of the facts stored.
- mtgx 14y agoWhy are you keen on filling your own memory with things that can be readily accessible these days?
- saulrh 14y agoThat's exactly why I like Glass so much. Humans aren't the only things that have memories, as demonstrated by dolphins, chimpanzees, elephants, and dogs. Humans aren't the only things that can process data, as demonstrated by computers. The thing that is unique to humans is the ability to think, to make high-level abstract decisions. By doing all of the menial labor for me - memorization and basic number crunching and mechanical information retrieval - tools like Google Glass let me concentrate on that decisionmaking. They let me concentrate on being human.
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- smogzer 14y agoThe most boring presentation ever. He is like, so i created google, so i don't have to make an effort to show excitement in my new product, that's for the marketing and sales. No onstage demo, jizuz i always present my stuff live ! that's where the emotions are.
- jeswin 14y agoPersonally, I'm fine with people not showing excitement and just being themselves. And I actually liked this presentation; seemed very honest and genuine.
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- Jabbles 14y agoSergey is an interesting character. He's so brutally honest and unrefined. There's no trace of corporate bullshit, no fear of saying anything wrong about Google (although he did correct himself over eBay). He's awkward. Says "er" a lot. Makes jokes about competitors. Admits that Glass hasn't succeeded yet. Criticises mobile phones (I assume it's a Nexus 4). Says his wife slaps him. No CEO would do any of this. It's refreshing to see a company spokesperson so "normal".
- psbp 14y agoHe kind of comes across as a less shifty Mark Zuckerberg.
- spdy 14y agoThats why i like him more and trust him to make the right calls. (i.e. privacy) Mark does not have that, whenever i hear him you can sense this aura surrounding him. Something is off. And comparing both companies Google is driving inovation. Google Car will transform our planet within years and the same goes for Glass. Think about where in your workplace you could apply a tool like this.
- nakedrobot2 14y agoIt is worth noting that every major car company is working on self-driving cars, and has been for quite a few years now.
- vidarh 14y ago> and has been for quite a few years now They have. I first saw stuff about self driving cars when I was a kid, a couple of decades ago. So where are they? Google has had a fraction of the time, yet appears to have gotten further than most already..
- nsns 14y ago...only to cancel it at some random future time, mid-drive.
- infoman 14y agohttp://glass-apps.org/google-glass-anime http://glass-apps.org/google-glass-anime I've seen a very good anime about augmented reality. There are really nice glasses that are barely visible on your face. I hope google glass will be as fashionable as that some day:
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- bencoder 14y agoSite wasn't working for me. I think this is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rie-hPVJ7Sw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rie-hPVJ7Sw
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- dombili 14y agoI have a question: Would anyone still be bothered by all the privacy stuff if Glass didn't have a camera? I guess then it'd be a redundant technology (is there such a thing?), but I assume people wouldn't be so concerned about their privacy as well, right?
- NegativeK 14y agoThere are three types of complaints I've seen about Glass: * Camera-based privacy concerns. * A rude distraction in my face/someone else's face that interrupts human interaction. * It's ugly. I completely ignore the last. For the second, social norms will change or develop to address this. I expect people who pause in a conversation to stare at their eyeball screen will get similar reactions as people who glance down at their phone. Some will care; some won't. A lot of younger people won't give two poops. For the privacy/camera based concerns, I'm quite fatalistic about it. Google has indicated that it's going to be obvious when you take a picture -- but more importantly, we are going to be surrounded by more and more cameras and sensors as time goes on. Since I don't think we can beat 'em..
- ebbv 14y agoOP only submits articles from glass-apps.org. Clearly a shill for that site. 14 submissions from that site in 4 days.
- dm2 14y agoCan an admin change the link to point to youtube instead of this guys blogspam?
- hosay123 14y agoAccount was registered on 3rd March, domain was registered 5th March. "Hmmm"
- infoman 14y agohey guys sorry if I offended you by my enthusiasm for google glass. I certainly didn't know enough about the hacker news community to to everything right. The site is currently down because of the attention (I have seen the same problem with other news posted here). I think I know now how to act properly in this "community".
- hosay123 14y agoLet me guess.. home work media job, lots of time on your hands to discuss interesting products?
- yottabyte47 14y agoHe says that they designed Glass to free up your hands and eyes and ears, but that is only true when you're not using it. When you are using it you're using your hands to scroll, your eyes to look at the screen, and you are still listening for what it has to say. How is this different from a phone? When your phone is in your pocket your hands and eyes and ears are free but when you are using it they're not. The only difference seems to be looking up and slightly cross-eyed and not down. If Glass becomes a success, I fail to see how it would bring people out of the bubble they're in when using a phone. It seems like Glass just moves the bubble.
- chintan 14y ago"If I had glass" on Yahoo and Bing: http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=Agw0sPNuxbiST6yjUH1P2j6bvZx4?p=if+i+had+glass&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-900 http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=Agw0sPNuxbiST6yjUH1P2j6b... http://www.bing.com/search?q=if+i+had+glass&go=&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=if+i+had+glass&sc=1-14&sp=-1&sk=&ghc=1 http://www.bing.com/search?q=if+i+had+glass&go=&qs=n... and Google https://www.google.com/?q=if%20i%20had%20glass#hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=if+i+had+glass&oq=if+i+had+glass&gs_l=hp.12...0.0.0.2156.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1c..7.psy-ab.I9Ce-uDAX8A&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.44158598,d.dmQ&fp=2bfa96fe02dccb7&biw=1847&bih=959 https://www.google.com/?q=if%20i%20had%20glass#hl=en&new...
- photorized 14y agoIf anyone is interested, I did an analysis/visualization of people's "if I had glass" responses. Some are predictable ("I would sell it on eBay"), some are interesting ("surgeon could video and broadcast surgery" - at the very bottom of that visualization), lots and lots are about capturing moments and sharing them: http://blog.itrendcorporation.com/2013/03/19/back-by-popular-demand-so-what-would-people-do-with-google-glass/ http://blog.itrendcorporation.com/2013/03/19/back-by-popular... I am still amazed at this approach by Google with Glass - they don't offer a compelling reason to buy it yet, and people still seem to want it.
- doctorstupid 14y agoCue the advent of the No-chamber: http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/No-chamber http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/No-chamber