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Google Glass code hints at spatial gestures

18 points by vimarshk 13y ago

ryanac 13y ago
Great, as if people walking around talking to "no one" wasn't bad enough, now people will be randomly grabbing at air and twitching their eyes. How are we supposed to separate the crazy people from the sane?! And the real question here, who's going to be the first person to accidentally pinch their friends nose when trying to zoom? How will we recover from such embarrassment? Is it in the warranty?! On the other hand this does look interesting, I wonder if you could use this to "select" things in the world like "click/point to" a restaurant sign to learn more.
- psbp 13y ago
  Great, whenever anyone uses this new technology they'll be warped into a bizarro Charlie Chaplin style universe where everyone is a buffoonish clutz.
- laureny 13y ago
  > Great, as if people walking around talking to "no one" wasn't bad enough, now people will be randomly grabbing at air and twitching their eyes. How are we supposed to separate the crazy people from the sane?! Nothing really new, people giving the appearance of talking to themselves happen all the time because of cell phones and Bluetooth headsets, and as for winking or gesturing, it's been happening to the human race ever since we were able to walk on two legs. I still remember when walking in the streets with a walkman on your ears made you look crazy.
zalew 13y ago
> Glass will be made by a third party but feature support from Google I hope in the future it will be made only by 3rd parties. Say, you buy nicely looking designer shades and they have google glass. Right now it's ugly, vulgar, creepy and has a high douchebaggery factor, I wonder how they want to convince people to walk around with this thing on their faces.
- raldi 13y ago
  It wasn't so long ago that you were a douche if you walked around in public talking into a cell phone. Or if you drove around showing off your crazy automobile contraption instead of riding a horse like a normal person. Or if you wore a timepiece strapped to your wrist, instead of on a chain in your pocket like a proper gentleman. (And later, if the watch on your wrist had some kind of ugly LCD thing, instead of a handsome analog face.) Then again, there was a time when you were a douche if you rode around on a Segway... and that period never ended. So I guess this could go either way.
  - zalew 13y ago
    Fair enough. What I meant is that a licensing model would be cool because it would offer the same tech in endless fashion applications, instead of forcing to wear a wire structure on your head. For the moment I'm afraid that in the beginning it will be what it is, and after some time there will possibly be some special designer editions for a bazillion dollars.
  - pifflesnort 13y ago
    > It wasn't so long ago that you were a douche if you walked around in public talking into a cell phone. You still are. It's still considered rude to subject everyone to your cell phone call. These people walk up to the register while on a call, block the sidewalk while distracted, and otherwise are clearly not actually with us in this universe. http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/07/12/breaking-the-rules-with-mobile-etiquette-poll/ http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/07/12/breaking-the-rules... http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2438977 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2438977 http://formingthethread.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/cell-phone-rudeness-in-the-public-restroom-really/ http://formingthethread.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/cell-phone-... > Or if you drove around showing off your crazy automobile contraption instead of riding a horse like a normal person. Yep, the 'showing off' part is still douche. > Or if you wore a timepiece strapped to your wrist, instead of on a chain in your pocket like a proper gentleman. (And later, if the watch on your wrist was some kind of ugly LCD thing, instead of a handsome analog face.) This one too. Once watches stopped being a functional item (the advent of phones), they became douche status badges. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/fashion/watches-are-rediscovered-by-the-cellphone-generation.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/fashion/watches-are-redisc... http://www.npr.org/2012/04/30/150719282/in-cell-era-timepieces-are-fashion-trend-to-watch http://www.npr.org/2012/04/30/150719282/in-cell-era-timepiec...
zkirill 13y ago
I find "BROWSER_TWO_FINGER_ZOOM" the most interesting - was just thinking the other day of what a Google Glass + Leap Motion mashup would look like.
turing 13y ago
Do we have any indication that these are actually Leap Motion style gestures? When I read this I assumed it was merely a two-finger gesture on the trackpad on the side of the device. In a recent TED video, a Google UX designer said that they looked into such gestures for Glass and decided not to include them in the product [1]. 1. http://ed.ted.com/lessons/rapid-prototyping-google-glass-tom-chi http://ed.ted.com/lessons/rapid-prototyping-google-glass-tom...
- dchichkov 13y ago
  With the current tech there is no way Google can put in computer-vision based two-finger gesture into Glass. There isn't enough processing power in the cell phone linked to the Glass. And there isn't enough space in the Glass for a custom computer vision chip. So it is likely that you are right, and it is merely a two-finger touchpad gesture.
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18 points by vimarshk 13y ago

Great, as if people walking around talking to "no one" wasn't bad enough, now people will be randomly grabbing at air and twitching their eyes. How are we supposed to separate the crazy people from the sane?! And the real question here, who's going to be the first person to accidentally pinch their friends nose when trying to zoom? How will we recover from such embarrassment? Is it in the warranty?! On the other hand this does look interesting, I wonder if you could use this to "select" things in the world like "click/point to" a restaurant sign to learn more.

psbp 13y ago
Great, whenever anyone uses this new technology they'll be warped into a bizarro Charlie Chaplin style universe where everyone is a buffoonish clutz.
laureny 13y ago
> Great, as if people walking around talking to "no one" wasn't bad enough, now people will be randomly grabbing at air and twitching their eyes. How are we supposed to separate the crazy people from the sane?! Nothing really new, people giving the appearance of talking to themselves happen all the time because of cell phones and Bluetooth headsets, and as for winking or gesturing, it's been happening to the human race ever since we were able to walk on two legs. I still remember when walking in the streets with a walkman on your ears made you look crazy.

zalew 13y ago

> Glass will be made by a third party but feature support from Google I hope in the future it will be made only by 3rd parties. Say, you buy nicely looking designer shades and they have google glass. Right now it's ugly, vulgar, creepy and has a high douchebaggery factor, I wonder how they want to convince people to walk around with this thing on their faces.

raldi 13y ago
It wasn't so long ago that you were a douche if you walked around in public talking into a cell phone. Or if you drove around showing off your crazy automobile contraption instead of riding a horse like a normal person. Or if you wore a timepiece strapped to your wrist, instead of on a chain in your pocket like a proper gentleman. (And later, if the watch on your wrist had some kind of ugly LCD thing, instead of a handsome analog face.) Then again, there was a time when you were a douche if you rode around on a Segway... and that period never ended. So I guess this could go either way.
- zalew 13y ago
  Fair enough. What I meant is that a licensing model would be cool because it would offer the same tech in endless fashion applications, instead of forcing to wear a wire structure on your head. For the moment I'm afraid that in the beginning it will be what it is, and after some time there will possibly be some special designer editions for a bazillion dollars.
- pifflesnort 13y ago
  > It wasn't so long ago that you were a douche if you walked around in public talking into a cell phone. You still are. It's still considered rude to subject everyone to your cell phone call. These people walk up to the register while on a call, block the sidewalk while distracted, and otherwise are clearly not actually with us in this universe. http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/07/12/breaking-the-rules-with-mobile-etiquette-poll/ http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/07/12/breaking-the-rules... http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2438977 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2438977 http://formingthethread.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/cell-phone-rudeness-in-the-public-restroom-really/ http://formingthethread.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/cell-phone-... > Or if you drove around showing off your crazy automobile contraption instead of riding a horse like a normal person. Yep, the 'showing off' part is still douche. > Or if you wore a timepiece strapped to your wrist, instead of on a chain in your pocket like a proper gentleman. (And later, if the watch on your wrist was some kind of ugly LCD thing, instead of a handsome analog face.) This one too. Once watches stopped being a functional item (the advent of phones), they became douche status badges. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/fashion/watches-are-rediscovered-by-the-cellphone-generation.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/fashion/watches-are-redisc... http://www.npr.org/2012/04/30/150719282/in-cell-era-timepieces-are-fashion-trend-to-watch http://www.npr.org/2012/04/30/150719282/in-cell-era-timepiec...

zkirill 13y ago

I find "BROWSER_TWO_FINGER_ZOOM" the most interesting - was just thinking the other day of what a Google Glass + Leap Motion mashup would look like.

turing 13y ago

Do we have any indication that these are actually Leap Motion style gestures? When I read this I assumed it was merely a two-finger gesture on the trackpad on the side of the device. In a recent TED video, a Google UX designer said that they looked into such gestures for Glass and decided not to include them in the product [1]. 1. http://ed.ted.com/lessons/rapid-prototyping-google-glass-tom-chi http://ed.ted.com/lessons/rapid-prototyping-google-glass-tom...

dchichkov 13y ago
With the current tech there is no way Google can put in computer-vision based two-finger gesture into Glass. There isn't enough processing power in the cell phone linked to the Glass. And there isn't enough space in the Glass for a custom computer vision chip. So it is likely that you are right, and it is merely a two-finger touchpad gesture.

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