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"no pair of glasses will ever produce high definition video as good as an actual camera" If there is one thing the last 20 years should have taught us, it's th

by roel_v 14y ago

"no pair of glasses will ever produce high definition video as good as an actual camera" If there is one thing the last 20 years should have taught us, it's that people who say 'x will never be as good as y' are, in the medium to long term, almost always fabulously wrong.

jiggy2011 14y ago
That's a little bit of confirmation bias, there are plenty of xs that have never become as good as ys.
anigbrowl 14y ago
Not true. I can think of many cases where they're wrong, but I can also think of many where they're right. With cameras and suchlike you're running limitations of physics, as far as image acquisition is concerned; the other issue is that there's a huge body of knowledge on how to move a camera properly, whereas a head-mounted camera is kind of painful to watch because you don't have the kinetic cues to go with it, and every little twitch or movement of the head becomes a distraction for the viewer who has to filter out the irrelevant movements in their visual cortex. Look at all those videos on youtube where people don't know how to hold a camcorder and it is just waving all over the place even when they're aiming it at a static object in front of them. The musical instrument world is abuzz with new analog synthesizers right now, because over the last couple of years several major manufacturers have just gone back to manufacturing it because SMT and FPGA/FPAAs have made it affordable to do so again. They're still making DSP synths because DSP still offers many advaantages (not as noisy, fewer limits on polyphony, vastly cheaper at scale), but analog synths are huge again because they simply sound more interesting to most musicians than their digital equivalents. I'm about to sell one of my DSP boxes for this very reason, in fact.
DigitalSea 14y ago
Considering Google Glass utilises cloud storage on presumably some kind of LTE plan I don't see high quality blu-ray or even DVD ready video recording quality anytime soon from these things, it's just not plausible high quality video can be captured and streamed via any network as fast as it is being captured (unless Glass has on-board high storage, but I haven't heard of any). You are somewhat right in that people have said "x will never be as good as y" and were proven wrong, but that isn't always the case. In this instance I don't see Google Glass replacing any day-to-day camera. Mobile phone camera technology is a good example, mobile phone cameras have become a lot better in the quality of; video, imagery, lenses and sensors they have, but due to constraints such as; battery life, storage capacity and smaller form factor will never be good for more than happy snaps. And while lots of people are content with happy snap quality, to say that Google Glass in the article will ever be of high enough quality to record palatable professional pornography is a misguided and incorrect statement.

by roel_v 14y ago

jiggy2011 14y ago

That's a little bit of confirmation bias, there are plenty of xs that have never become as good as ys.

anigbrowl 14y ago

Not true. I can think of many cases where they're wrong, but I can also think of many where they're right. With cameras and suchlike you're running limitations of physics, as far as image acquisition is concerned; the other issue is that there's a huge body of knowledge on how to move a camera properly, whereas a head-mounted camera is kind of painful to watch because you don't have the kinetic cues to go with it, and every little twitch or movement of the head becomes a distraction for the viewer who has to filter out the irrelevant movements in their visual cortex. Look at all those videos on youtube where people don't know how to hold a camcorder and it is just waving all over the place even when they're aiming it at a static object in front of them. The musical instrument world is abuzz with new analog synthesizers right now, because over the last couple of years several major manufacturers have just gone back to manufacturing it because SMT and FPGA/FPAAs have made it affordable to do so again. They're still making DSP synths because DSP still offers many advaantages (not as noisy, fewer limits on polyphony, vastly cheaper at scale), but analog synths are huge again because they simply sound more interesting to most musicians than their digital equivalents. I'm about to sell one of my DSP boxes for this very reason, in fact.

DigitalSea 14y ago

Considering Google Glass utilises cloud storage on presumably some kind of LTE plan I don't see high quality blu-ray or even DVD ready video recording quality anytime soon from these things, it's just not plausible high quality video can be captured and streamed via any network as fast as it is being captured (unless Glass has on-board high storage, but I haven't heard of any). You are somewhat right in that people have said "x will never be as good as y" and were proven wrong, but that isn't always the case. In this instance I don't see Google Glass replacing any day-to-day camera. Mobile phone camera technology is a good example, mobile phone cameras have become a lot better in the quality of; video, imagery, lenses and sensors they have, but due to constraints such as; battery life, storage capacity and smaller form factor will never be good for more than happy snaps. And while lots of people are content with happy snap quality, to say that Google Glass in the article will ever be of high enough quality to record palatable professional pornography is a misguided and incorrect statement.