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He brings up a very good point that a lot the information humans pickup is from each other's faces. The nonverbal feedback facilitates turn-taking in conversati

He brings up a very good point that a lot the information humans pickup is from each other's faces. The nonverbal feedback facilitates turn-taking in conversation as well as emotional feedback. Perhaps Glass causes visceral reactions because of the combination of its foreignness (unlike glasses) and proximity to the face.

gaius 13y ago
Over and above the privacy issues, you can never have the undivided attention of someone wearing Glass. That's deeply off-putting. Imagine trying to have a conversation with someone as they listened to headphones and stared at their phone the whole time.
- enanoretozon 13y ago
  I'm guessing when it becomes commonplace it will be far easier to whip out my phone and IM people across the table.
- apashee 13y ago
  I think that's going a little too far. Already we've embedded ourselves in a world where many people break open their phone in the middle of a conversation. Yes, it's rude. But it's still a change that's happening in the world. However, Glass isn't always on, at least not right now. You have to manually turn it on, which means it'll be akin to taking out your phone.
  - gaius 13y ago
    But can you see if someone else's Glass is displaying them something or whispering them something? At least with a phone it's obvious.
    - easong 13y ago
      Yes, actually. The screen lights up and it's pretty obvious. Most of the people I talk to while wearing glass notice it immediately when it comes on.
      - nkorth 13y ago
        And I seem to remember something about Google requiring all apps to light up the screen, to avoid the whole "stealth" thing.
- RyanZAG 13y ago
  I'm not sure why this is a problem - do you feel conversation with you would be boring enough that people would want to escape to Glass? If a conversation is interesting, it has my undivided attention regardless of what loud music, landing airplanes, or waving shop attendants are doing. If a conversation isn't interesting, I'm already looking around for other more interesting ways to get away from the conversation. Glass is hardly the problem there - if the conversation is interesting, people will turn off any music being played and ignore whatever is happening on Glass.
  - artmageddon 13y ago
    > Glass is hardly the problem there - if the conversation is interesting, people will turn off any music being played and ignore whatever is happening on Glass. Not necessarily. People can be very distracted by cell phones which are normally kept in one's pocket or purse. Having glass on your face with visual pop-ups would be even more distracting, regardless of the conversation, because it would be a lot harder to ignore incoming alerts or other cues.
- mjn 13y ago
  That was the reaction I had years ago (2004), when I was interviewing at Georgia Tech for PhD positions, and had a meeting with Thad Starner (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~thad/ http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~thad/). He's a really smart guy, and friendly, but his heads-up display came across as very distracting to me, mostly because of how it interfered with "intuitive" reading of eye gaze. When he was looking vaguely in my direction it was difficult to tell when he was looking "through" the heads-up display and focusing on me, and when he was focusing instead on the HUD. It made the whole conversation feel quite surreal.
moskie 13y ago
That foreignness should go away with time. I'm sure plenty of people were offput by people wearing glasses when they were first introduced to society at large.
r00fus 13y ago
The fact that having glasses/ocular implants that embed electronics already have many negative connotations re-inforced by mainstream media [1] doesn't help acceptance of Glass either. I know that my views on Glass (negative) would be a 180degree shift if it didn't have a camera mounted on it. I respect others' privacy and I feel pointing a camera is a form of "brandishing" [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Picard_as_Locutus.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Picard_as_Locutus.jpg

gaius 13y ago

Over and above the privacy issues, you can never have the undivided attention of someone wearing Glass. That's deeply off-putting. Imagine trying to have a conversation with someone as they listened to headphones and stared at their phone the whole time.

enanoretozon 13y ago
I'm guessing when it becomes commonplace it will be far easier to whip out my phone and IM people across the table.
apashee 13y ago
I think that's going a little too far. Already we've embedded ourselves in a world where many people break open their phone in the middle of a conversation. Yes, it's rude. But it's still a change that's happening in the world. However, Glass isn't always on, at least not right now. You have to manually turn it on, which means it'll be akin to taking out your phone.
- gaius 13y ago
  But can you see if someone else's Glass is displaying them something or whispering them something? At least with a phone it's obvious.
  - easong 13y ago
    Yes, actually. The screen lights up and it's pretty obvious. Most of the people I talk to while wearing glass notice it immediately when it comes on.
    - nkorth 13y ago
      And I seem to remember something about Google requiring all apps to light up the screen, to avoid the whole "stealth" thing.
RyanZAG 13y ago
I'm not sure why this is a problem - do you feel conversation with you would be boring enough that people would want to escape to Glass? If a conversation is interesting, it has my undivided attention regardless of what loud music, landing airplanes, or waving shop attendants are doing. If a conversation isn't interesting, I'm already looking around for other more interesting ways to get away from the conversation. Glass is hardly the problem there - if the conversation is interesting, people will turn off any music being played and ignore whatever is happening on Glass.
- artmageddon 13y ago
  > Glass is hardly the problem there - if the conversation is interesting, people will turn off any music being played and ignore whatever is happening on Glass. Not necessarily. People can be very distracted by cell phones which are normally kept in one's pocket or purse. Having glass on your face with visual pop-ups would be even more distracting, regardless of the conversation, because it would be a lot harder to ignore incoming alerts or other cues.
mjn 13y ago
That was the reaction I had years ago (2004), when I was interviewing at Georgia Tech for PhD positions, and had a meeting with Thad Starner (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~thad/ http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~thad/). He's a really smart guy, and friendly, but his heads-up display came across as very distracting to me, mostly because of how it interfered with "intuitive" reading of eye gaze. When he was looking vaguely in my direction it was difficult to tell when he was looking "through" the heads-up display and focusing on me, and when he was focusing instead on the HUD. It made the whole conversation feel quite surreal.

moskie 13y ago

That foreignness should go away with time. I'm sure plenty of people were offput by people wearing glasses when they were first introduced to society at large.

r00fus 13y ago

The fact that having glasses/ocular implants that embed electronics already have many negative connotations re-inforced by mainstream media [1] doesn't help acceptance of Glass either. I know that my views on Glass (negative) would be a 180degree shift if it didn't have a camera mounted on it. I respect others' privacy and I feel pointing a camera is a form of "brandishing" [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Picard_as_Locutus.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Picard_as_Locutus.jpg