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This sort of reminds me of how Russia and its dash cams have sort of changed how people (such as myself) perceive the act of driving. In the past, dash cams wer

by afreak 13y ago

This sort of reminds me of how Russia and its dash cams have sort of changed how people (such as myself) perceive the act of driving. In the past, dash cams were largely limited to police officers on patrol, but now anyone can put one in their car for $40 and have it set to record as soon as the ignition is turned. Some dash cam videos that have made the news recently include the following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ufuY5W7K0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ufuY5W7K0 (plane crash in Afghanistan) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHqFDsKq5DA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHqFDsKq5DA (plane crash somewhere in Russia) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y66OHiB_p4I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y66OHiB_p4I (meteor in Russia) I think that Google Glass will lead to more videos like the one linked and the ones I included. Perhaps we'll eventually have just news dominated by reports by a single individual as opposed to a reporter and a camera man.

toomuchtodo 13y ago
I think that Google Glass will lead to more videos like the one linked and the ones I included. Perhaps we'll eventually have just news dominated by reports by a single individual as opposed to a reporter and a camera man. Yes. Event detection->Video sourcing via location information->Aggregation and distribution. All of that can be automated to occur very quickly.
- will_brown 13y ago
  >Video sourcing via location information->Aggregation and distribution. Checkout my project at www.ommageo.com (beta) in this space
karpathy 13y ago
One part that's currently missing from Google Glass and that sets it apart from the dashcam example is the ability to continuously record on a circular buffer, mostly due to constraints in battery life. But once that's possible I would expect many interesting videos to start hitting the internet, as you could essentially save the last x minutes of video to file. A good example of this is the video of the SFO crash landing. It was somewhat unlikely and miraculous that someone just happened to be filming at that time, but in the future there might be tens or hundreds of videos from all the eye witnesses. And not just for this event but any other. It's interesting to think about other repercussions of such technology. From the innocent (such as a large increase in the amount of embarrassing videos on YouTube) to important (such as reconstructing a crime event (think boston bombing)) or scary (blackmail?).
- cmbaus 13y ago
  This comment just made me realize how right on the original vision of justin.tv was. It was probably 10 years ahead of its time. Maybe PG is a genius at finding founders who see the future.
  - icebraining 13y ago
    Or maybe they just looked at the work of Steve Mann, who was doing realtime broadcasting of a wearable camera to the web in '94.
- InclinedPlane 13y ago
  Technologically it's really only a matter of time before storage gets to a point where keeping months of coninuous 1080p video isn't a big deal, it'll fit on a square cm and cost a pittance. But that's not the scary part. The scary part comes later, due to massive increases in computing power. Imagine a world where, say, computers with terabytes of RAM and thousands of high performance cores are run of the mill server systems. And then it's not just a matter of people storing data but analyzing it, and collating it, deeper than we think is even remotely conceivable today. Face recognition, voice recognition, biometrics, kinematics, writing style, and of course metadata will make public an astounding amount of information. A video of a random group of strangers will be trivial to index and identify every individual through the above techniques. A shockingly detailed account of everyone's lives, where they've been, who they've met, what they've purchased, and so on will be determinable using, eventually, relatively little cost in computing power. Here's an example, let's say there are only a handful of pictures or videos from inside your apartment, imagine if every book on your shelf, every knick knack, every belonging was automatically identified and indexed. It's a world that rapidly spins away from any sort of world we're comfortable or familiar with but we probably won't figure out how to deal with it until well after we've been subjected to the worst abuses and invasions of privacy.
  - williamcotton 13y ago
    Time to bust out the scramble suits...
rplnt 13y ago
I believe dash cams are illegal in most/(some?) of Europe. Not specifically targeted by law, just not allowed as it is now. And they can't be used as an evidence (in court) either.

by afreak 13y ago

toomuchtodo 13y ago

I think that Google Glass will lead to more videos like the one linked and the ones I included. Perhaps we'll eventually have just news dominated by reports by a single individual as opposed to a reporter and a camera man. Yes. Event detection->Video sourcing via location information->Aggregation and distribution. All of that can be automated to occur very quickly.

will_brown 13y ago
>Video sourcing via location information->Aggregation and distribution. Checkout my project at www.ommageo.com (beta) in this space

karpathy 13y ago

One part that's currently missing from Google Glass and that sets it apart from the dashcam example is the ability to continuously record on a circular buffer, mostly due to constraints in battery life. But once that's possible I would expect many interesting videos to start hitting the internet, as you could essentially save the last x minutes of video to file. A good example of this is the video of the SFO crash landing. It was somewhat unlikely and miraculous that someone just happened to be filming at that time, but in the future there might be tens or hundreds of videos from all the eye witnesses. And not just for this event but any other. It's interesting to think about other repercussions of such technology. From the innocent (such as a large increase in the amount of embarrassing videos on YouTube) to important (such as reconstructing a crime event (think boston bombing)) or scary (blackmail?).

cmbaus 13y ago
This comment just made me realize how right on the original vision of justin.tv was. It was probably 10 years ahead of its time. Maybe PG is a genius at finding founders who see the future.
- icebraining 13y ago
  Or maybe they just looked at the work of Steve Mann, who was doing realtime broadcasting of a wearable camera to the web in '94.
InclinedPlane 13y ago
Technologically it's really only a matter of time before storage gets to a point where keeping months of coninuous 1080p video isn't a big deal, it'll fit on a square cm and cost a pittance. But that's not the scary part. The scary part comes later, due to massive increases in computing power. Imagine a world where, say, computers with terabytes of RAM and thousands of high performance cores are run of the mill server systems. And then it's not just a matter of people storing data but analyzing it, and collating it, deeper than we think is even remotely conceivable today. Face recognition, voice recognition, biometrics, kinematics, writing style, and of course metadata will make public an astounding amount of information. A video of a random group of strangers will be trivial to index and identify every individual through the above techniques. A shockingly detailed account of everyone's lives, where they've been, who they've met, what they've purchased, and so on will be determinable using, eventually, relatively little cost in computing power. Here's an example, let's say there are only a handful of pictures or videos from inside your apartment, imagine if every book on your shelf, every knick knack, every belonging was automatically identified and indexed. It's a world that rapidly spins away from any sort of world we're comfortable or familiar with but we probably won't figure out how to deal with it until well after we've been subjected to the worst abuses and invasions of privacy.
- williamcotton 13y ago
  Time to bust out the scramble suits...

rplnt 13y ago

I believe dash cams are illegal in most/(some?) of Europe. Not specifically targeted by law, just not allowed as it is now. And they can't be used as an evidence (in court) either.