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Rampage
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Posted: 6th Apr 2012 00:13
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Seems interesting...

The device doesn't even look that bad! :o

Sort of the kind of thing you expect to see in a sci-fi movie.
Looks kind of like the future doesn't it? Check it out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4&feature=g-u-u&context=G2622b32FUAAAAAAAdAA

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How would you play Angry Birds on them?

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I imagine it would have a lot of flaws. For example, our streets and houses aren't just some static thing; they change all the time. How would google keep track of every new thing and update the pathfinding accordingly? Now I'm sure they'll be able to update big places, but what about this old village I'm living in? They built a new street 2 years ago, and google maps still doesn't know about it.

Another problem, although I must admit it has become much more improved, is the voice recognition. Will it be able to interpret some really thick Scottish accent with lots of background noise?

I feel uncomfortable with this device because Google knows exactly when and where I am, and probably runs statistics and calculations on what I'd do next. What if this information gets into the wrong hands?

Apart from all of that I think it's a really cool idea and is possibly in the near future.

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Tech demos 1000x more cool than concept videos, so nothing they've posted really seems that interesting to me...

Would be brilliant if they succeed, but we're not living in the future yet!

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Star Trek had the iPad...one can dream...




Seems like a cool concept and kudos for giving it a go...but I see one big flaw. You know people who follow GPS into rivers/lamp posts/rivers/etc? I see people walking onto incoming traffic with this one. Oh well, I guess it'll cull the numbers a bit and we'll have fewer stupid people reproducing. I mean eugenics is really a touchy subject, so I think Google has come up with an excellent solution.


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If it actually is as cool as on the video, and works as well, then YES, i want it!


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Quote: "I mean eugenics is really a touchy subject, so I think Google has come up with an excellent solution. "


Except I read about some other technology some random company's working on with cellphones that would alert the person to dangerous (walking into oncoming traffic) situations. The glasses could certainly act as an early warning system as well.

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Posted: 6th Apr 2012 04:04
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Quote: "The glasses could certainly act as an early warning system as well."


like eyes lol

seems like a pretty cool idea, I'd like them to make the 8 bit reality patch for it so you can walk around old school. make it like an online game where everyone logged in can become an npc in the game world.
Then you could actually hit people for making arrow/knee jokes.

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Posted: 6th Apr 2012 04:16
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Actually, this could be made possible!



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The first thing I thought of when I saw this was "Vegeta what does the scouter say about his power level?"

Quote: "It looks pretty awesome "

Yeah, I was thinking that but if they can get around those bends then it'll be an awesome device.

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@Seppuka - Culling the population! That's had me giggling for ages...

Trucks get stuck everywhere anyway, whether they use a sat nav or not. This new gadget wouldn't make any difference apart from leading people into rabbit holes.

I still wanna know how you'd play Angry Birds! (iPhone does it, apparently)

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TheComet

that video reminds me of three things...

After Effects big time...

Fallout 3

and Final Fantasy Spirits Within...

but I seriously love

Quote: "Oh well, I guess it'll cull the numbers a bit and we'll have fewer stupid people reproducing. "


oh well... lets let the silly devices come out so that version 3.0 can finally exist... >.<

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I read about this while reading about AR contact lenses. Seems like the tech for the contacts is a ways off as far as an energy source, but it seems like it would be pretty cool: http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens/0

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I think that it's the best advert I have ever seen. But my eyes wouldn't take the strain.

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I've hated on this all over the escapist.

But to summarize...

NO!

It wouldn't pass health and safety requirements, it wouldn't be anything like that quality. Google must think we are all hipster retards who will rely on them to do the most simple task in future. I don't like it, but I don't have to like it because it probably won't happen.

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Quote: "t wouldn't pass health and safety requirements, it wouldn't be anything like that quality. Google must think we are all hipster retards who will rely on them to do the most simple task in future. I don't like it, but I don't have to like it because it probably won't happen.
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Your obviously not American.

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I actually think this, and things like this, are fantastic. You also need to imagine how featureless google's services were 10 years ago, and image how many more features they might have in another 10 years that the could integrate into these glasses. It might not seem as impressive to you now, but every year google seems to surprise us with innovation. I say wait and see. Time will tell.

Oh, you don't like the idea of big brother tracking and calculating everything you do? Don't ever use a cell phone, or go outside, or get into a vehicle made in the last 10 years, or sign up for email notifications, forums, shoppers rewards, credit cards, or bank accounts... because guess what. It's been going on for a long time.

My only worry is how would you focus on something so close? That's what I wonder. If I put right up to my face at the distance of a glasses lens, I certainly can't focus on what it says...

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@ TheComet i'll play that any day over any FPS.


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Quote: "Oh, you don't like the idea of big brother tracking and calculating everything you do? Don't ever use a cell phone, or go outside, or get into a vehicle made in the last 10 years, or sign up for email notifications, forums, shoppers rewards, credit cards, or bank accounts... because guess what. It's been going on for a long time."


There's a difference between signing on for email notifications, and carrying a device that can see what you see, track your location, and send that information live to Google HQ, where it's fed into the megabrain that decides the weather and the weekly meme.
Actually, I don't take a mobile phone anywhere - I have a iPhone4, and iPad2, and none of them have left my house. I have 2 laptops, none of them have left my house. When I'm out, I am out - I don't want my closest friends and family tracking me down, so why on earth would I let Google or anyone else!
Personally I like the idea of being off the grid, especially when doing something like mountainbiking, I just don't need people to be in constant contact, like some sort of co-dependant growth on the end of my arm. If I'm at work, I'm working, at home I'm probably working - if I'm at neither of those locations then don't bother even trying to get hold . It's freedom, try it - just once leave the smart phone and facebook/twitter/whatever at home. I'm not waiting on a transplant, I'm not an emergency plumber, I'm not waiting on my girlfriend dropping a kid - so what is so important that I have to be in constant contact. We are all too eager to hand over control of our lives, for what?... celebrity gossip and an increased liklihood of being mugged? No thanks

Anyway, all it'll take is for 10 douchebags to be hit by a bus while using something like that. It'll be just like Siri anyway, in other words it'll only really work in the US - so go ahead and work out all the kinks for us, see if it doesn't make you blind, give you headaches, ruin your posture or kill too many distracted hipsters... then maybe I'll have a look.

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The concept is pretty cool, though I understand your concerns VanB. I know my last post was facetious, but it is the kind of thing that would cause an outcry of health and safety here. Although we generally call people who drive into the sea because their GPS told them so, idiots.

Of course, we get people here who just like to complain.

As for the big brother side of things, I can see there being some validity to this. Whilst when Google Street View came to the UK the Daily Mail went nuts and wrote an article on about how it allows you to spy on people and helps stalkers...general paranoid BS like that and indeed that article was nuts and some people just reek of paranoia. But I think to an extent we do need to be wary of the data we do give out, it's not like people's privacy hasn't been invaded before, heck, it's not like Google hasn't allowed people's privacy to be invaded before. Remember the court order from Viacom on YouTube a couple years back? In the UK it'd be against the Data Protection Act, in the US it seemed the law was a more grey area and as YouTube is subject to US law, the Data Protection Act means that any UK YouTube users aren't protected. Maybe the court order was illegal in the US (so I heard one person argue back then) but it still happened.

Also be aware of what you agree too, the UK's Data Protection Act (or similar laws for other countries) doesn't necessarily apply if you've agreed to share data.


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I don't have a problem believing this type of thing will be common place enough, with the exception of the voice recognition.

Me: "Take a picture of this."
Device: "I heard... Make a pickle dance. Is that correct?"
Me: "No, I want to take a picture."
Device: "A public bathroom is 400 feet north."
Me: "What?
Device: "Don't forget to wash your hands."
Me: "You know what? Forget it. Call Angela."
Device: "Angela is not responding."
Me: "Stupid b***! I should have known better to get mixed up with..."
Device: "Message left for Angela."
Me: "Wait, what message? What did you tell her?"

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ahahahahahaha nice one xplosys...

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Quote: "Me: "Take a picture of this."
Device: "I heard... Make a pickle dance. Is that correct?"
Me: "No, I want to take a picture."
Device: "A public bathroom is 400 feet north."
Me: "What?
Device: "Don't forget to wash your hands."
Me: "You know what? Forget it. Call Angela."
Device: "Angela is not responding."
Me: "Stupid b***! I should have known better to get mixed up with..."
Device: "Message left for Angela."
Me: "Wait, what message? What did you tell her?"
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AHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA <3
Yeah, personally iam not too keen on that whole "calling by voice" or sending text messages by voice (although the later could be kind of useful, but i cant see myself using it...)

My phone has that feature, i have NEVER used it lol, but iam still saying: I WANT THIS. I want to go out in town and look like a sci fi dude!


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I've known about this for a long time actually. Just for the heck of it and the fun of it (IF google allows this) I would become a developer and develop a VR zombie sim game. Hehehehehehehe.... Wait. I hope these things have orientation and location sensors...

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Quote: "Actually, I don't take a mobile phone anywhere - I have a iPhone4, and iPad2, and none of them have left my house."


So you bought a device who's main attraction is portability, and left it at home?

You know, for the price of a month or two of iPhone 4 contract, you could just buy a landline phone that's cordless. It's essentially what you have there.

I think this idea would be cool, for the right applications. I'd never really use it for what's demonstrated here, but for a sort of augmented reality paintball? Hoh yes.
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Quote: "You know, for the price of a month or two of iPhone 4 contract, you could just buy a landline phone that's cordless. It's essentially what you have there."


You remember that you're on a development forum, right?

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April fools.



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Quote: "You remember that you're on a development forum, right?"


You know he said he had an iPad, right?
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You're aware they're two different devices, right?

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Yes.
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@ van B-
I'm the same way about my mobile, My stays by my bed where it wakes me up in the morning and there it stays. It's really quite astonishing how angry people get when they cannot reach you, they seem to think I am inconsiderate for not being at their beck and call 24/7.

I was waiting to hear back from a scan a few weeks ago, they seemed to think they could call me during the day on a week day and I would answer. busy working. they sent me an angry letter regarding my lack of contact-ability.

I stopped taking it with me after becoming paranoid about carrying around a bug device, then i just enjoyed not having it.

I can see a time very soon where we are legally required to carry a mobile(id,money etc)
even if it is in the form of super cool shades, I still want to minimize my tracking data.

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I hope you don't live in Britain, then. Good luck evading our comprehensive piles of cameras everywhere.
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@Van B, I could easily live without a mobile smartphone... But why would I want to? If I don't want to answer an email, call or text, I just don't. Simple as that, but it's there when it's handy, or I'm bored. I'm not an always connected social networking addicted person, but I do enjoy the convenience of looking for local restaurants, seeing whats playing in the theater, seeing what my friends are up to and checking my bank account whenever I need to. I don't see why you would think anyone is enslaved to such a device.

Quote: "I hope you don't live in Britain, then. Good luck evading our comprehensive piles of cameras everywhere."


This too. Big brother is everywhere whether you think so or not. If they want to find you, they will.

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I agree Dink. I don't see the argument that you're tied to them. I got stuck in Ely after taking the wrong train from Norwich, (meant to go to Great Yarmouth, feel free to GMaps these and laugh at my error, Norfolk all looks the same out of a window.)

Anyway, I didn't get back 'til midnight, when I was supposed to be back from working up Norwich at eight. Having a phone meant I could give my parents a heads-up, so they didn't freak out and worry.

My phone is in my pocket constantly, but if I received a text while at work or college, it happily waited 'til my next break to get read. I don't use the app stores on mine all that much, just a nifty alarm app that gives you maths puzzles to stop you slamming Snooze the whole time, and a few others for checking forums and sites I like now and then.

I could live without it, but it's still a significantly useful device. It gets me up in the morning, and means if there's something important, then I'm in touch. I've only been called for important stuff anyway. Meetups with friends, parents telling me to get home early cos we're going out for dinner, work calling to offer me overtime because someone's off sick, etc, etc.

Most importantly, if a potential employer I handed a CV to called up and I wasn't available, that's the job gone, instantly. I don't have the money to take that chance, so the phone's in my pocket and available at all times.

And the Big Brother argument? Pfft, you're telling me this over the internet, with constant attack from viruses and spyware. You go outside, cycling past cameras more than likely.

What a lot of people seem to ignore is the tonnes of eyewitnesses you pass, those humans. Plus, unless you're a criminal, what are you scared of hiding?
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Quote: "Even some satellites can clearly see into people's windows."

.... not sure if joking. But no, no they can't. No satelite can see through people's windows - for a start they're travelling far too quickly. That's why google maps turns from satelite imaging to photos taken from the air after you zoom in a little way

It always bemuses me a bit when people complain about user-targetted advertising. Maybe I'm just of a particularly apathetic generation, but I honestly don't see the problem. I remember one lesson taught to us in school was that Facebook uses data it collects on you to display adverts specifically for you, as if this is some terrible thing. But surely the correct response is Great! I only see adverts about stuff I'm actually interested in, while advertisers are more likely to make sales. It's a win win!

I suppose this comes from the fact that I actually quite like adverts. People complain about them all the time, but they're probably still most people's primary way of discovering new products and places.

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I will retract that statement as I have no proof, but I saw something about it on TV awhile back.

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Quote: "I'm the same way about my mobile, My stays by my bed where it wakes me up in the morning and there it stays. It's really quite astonishing how angry people get when they cannot reach you, they seem to think I am inconsiderate for not being at their beck and call 24/7."


Quite frankly, it CAN become quite annoying when you cant reach your frineds through the phones, and have to go other ways.. I have a friend who never even has it ON... so i eitherneed to go through her mom, drive home to her or check if she is online on skype (and if she isnt then the points above is what i have to do)

And, my ex girlfriend (the mother of my child) never answers her phone either, now THAT is frustrating.


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i do respond to text messages, and i answer my phone when i am at home. I just don't take it out and about with me. I also don't have any shared responsibilities, my friends know just to leave a text message. we plan days in advance anyway.

i can understand how not being able to reach your childs mother would be frustrating. that is inconsiderate.

What annoys me is the tone with which I am spoken to when I speak to someone who's call i've missed, nowerdays it seems to be expected that you drop everything your doing and take the call. 99% of the time the entire information you recieve will fit in a single txt.

I'm one of those people that finds physically talking to someone without seeing their face uncomfortable.
writing is ok for some reason.


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Quote: "I'm one of those people that finds physically talking to someone without seeing their face uncomfortable.
writing is ok for some reason. "


Same here, but i do prefer to call someone, rather than having to go over to them - quicker, less time consuming and all that

But yes, I too do feel uncomfortable


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That's what skype and facetime are for! But of course those arent as accessible lol...

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My mobile phone is always at home as well. I hate to see people walking around looking at their phones, and you have to play dodge the phone junkie. I'll bet that you will see people driving their cars with these new devices on.

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If it contains a collision alert system, I see no problem with it.

E.g., high speed image recognition, or checking up on other devices to find the locations of other vehicles. Hell, it could save lives if deployed properly.
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well for visually impaired people I can see a benefit...

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I still say I want it - I WANT TO LOOK LIKE A CYBERDUDE WHILE DOING STUFF <3


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Quote: "If it contains a collision alert system, I see no problem with it.

E.g., high speed image recognition, or checking up on other devices to find the locations of other vehicles. Hell, it could save lives if deployed properly. "


Collision detection sounds dodgy. What about drain holes? I'm sure it will have faults with it.

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Quote: "Collision detection sounds dodgy. What about drain holes? I'm sure it will have faults with it."


Quote: "Hell, it could save lives if deployed properly."
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Quote: "Quote: "Hell, it could save lives if deployed properly.""


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Posted: 7th Apr 2012 18:24
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Both are possible with the right application.
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Posted: 8th Apr 2012 23:34 Edited at: 8th Apr 2012 23:34
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i'm more looking forward to this particular google product


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Posted: 9th Apr 2012 03:03 Edited at: 9th Apr 2012 03:07
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Future press release will be...
Quote: "We know how important it is for you to be up to date with the latest information, especially when you're on the move. That's why we're introducing Google Watch: Google Watch records footage around-the-clock from every Google Glass wearer to give you the FULL PICTURE. Being part of this vibrant and exciting new community means always being in the know. Plan and adjust your schedule in response to real-time events as they happen: avoid traffic, be the first to hear about important news and developments.
As part of Google Watch we're also bring our technology into the home. Now even when you aren't wearing your Google Glass eyewear you can rest assured that you'll remain in touch with us and be able to communicate with your friends and relatives.
Along with enhanced communications, here at Google we're also dedicated to your security needs. Our highly trained surveillance staff will monitor all transmissions from Google Glass and Google HomEyes. If your home is broken-into, we'll see it, if you're threatened in the streets, we'll know, and we'll alert the authorities as soon as possible. Be safe in the knowledge that your safety and access to information are our top priority. GOOGLE IS WATCHING YOU. "


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