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One day when the technology is able to overlay an image on top of your vision (as opposed to a little screen next to your right eye that you have to look at), i

by pud 13y ago

One day when the technology is able to overlay an image on top of your vision (as opposed to a little screen next to your right eye that you have to look at), it will be amazing. Opening a car hood and seeing yellow arrows with instructions telling you what to do. Surgeons seeing information overlaid on top of patients. GPS just being arrows in front of you. Being able to see what your room looks like with different paint, and just being able to look around. Chilling at home watching a giant TV, without having a giant TV. There are a million uses for how that technology will be awesome. I don't think it's there yet in v1, but it can't be too far off and I'm glad Google's working on it.

rdouble 13y ago
One day when the technology is able to overlay an image on top of your vision The old crufty cyborg "eye tap" style rigs that the Media Lab guys had in 1995 did just that, but it was more like an emacs buffer floating in front of your face. Thad Starmer works on Glass, so it will probably happen someday.
WildUtah 13y ago
Flashing Flash-based ads in your peripheral vision all day, even when your eyes are closed. Location based nags you can't turn off demanding that you visit the commercial sponsors of your device as you travel through the city. Bugs that block your vision randomly and can't be turned off because you carrier is taking two years to approve the bug-fix upgrade to Android 11.3 and your equipment is locked down with an encrypted bootloader. Crashing into walls because some cracker has added your glass to a botnet mining for bitcoins and the device is lagging and leaving artifacts in your sight lines.
- krapp 13y ago
  Well, to be fair any form of this that takes off is going to have to be able to be turned off somehow. People won't accept it otherwise if they have a choice, they'll all rush to the competing model with the off switch.

by pud 13y ago

rdouble 13y ago

One day when the technology is able to overlay an image on top of your vision The old crufty cyborg "eye tap" style rigs that the Media Lab guys had in 1995 did just that, but it was more like an emacs buffer floating in front of your face. Thad Starmer works on Glass, so it will probably happen someday.

WildUtah 13y ago

Flashing Flash-based ads in your peripheral vision all day, even when your eyes are closed. Location based nags you can't turn off demanding that you visit the commercial sponsors of your device as you travel through the city. Bugs that block your vision randomly and can't be turned off because you carrier is taking two years to approve the bug-fix upgrade to Android 11.3 and your equipment is locked down with an encrypted bootloader. Crashing into walls because some cracker has added your glass to a botnet mining for bitcoins and the device is lagging and leaving artifacts in your sight lines.

krapp 13y ago
Well, to be fair any form of this that takes off is going to have to be able to be turned off somehow. People won't accept it otherwise if they have a choice, they'll all rush to the competing model with the off switch.