Google co-founder spotted with prototype Glasses

[dlock13]

I'm confused by the whole video calling thing.

I understand you can see them, but what's the purpose of the other person video chatting when they can only see what you're looking at. In the video, they guy turned on the cam so she could see what he was looking at, but again, I can only see this as a, "look at this thing I'm looking at," kind of deal.

Otherwise, I think it's pretty awesome. I'm concerned about a few things such as if there will be ear buds attached to the glasses or they get inserted in your ear or if you'll have to use your own.

I can't wait to even see these in person. I'm excited about the future. I just hope Google keeps going with this instead of investing research with little to no effect on the populace (their driver-less cars come to mind immediately).

 

[WelshBloke]

I'm confused by the whole video calling thing.

I understand you can see them, but what's the purpose of the other person video chatting when they can only see what you're looking at. In the video, they guy turned on the cam so she could see what he was looking at, but again, I can only see this as a, "look at this thing I'm looking at," kind of deal.

Otherwise, I think it's pretty awesome. I'm concerned about a few things such as if there will be ear buds attached to the glasses or they get inserted in your ear or if you'll have to use your own.

I can't wait to even see these in person. I'm excited about the future. I just hope Google keeps going with this instead of investing research with little to no effect on the populace (their driver-less cars come to mind immediately).

I'd actually find that more useful. I really dont need to look at your face when I'm talking to you, I either know what you look like or I don't care.

Not you personally dlock, I'm sure you look very nice.

 

[alent1234]

I'm confused by the whole video calling thing.

I understand you can see them, but what's the purpose of the other person video chatting when they can only see what you're looking at. In the video, they guy turned on the cam so she could see what he was looking at, but again, I can only see this as a, "look at this thing I'm looking at," kind of deal.

Otherwise, I think it's pretty awesome. I'm concerned about a few things such as if there will be ear buds attached to the glasses or they get inserted in your ear or if you'll have to use your own.

I can't wait to even see these in person. I'm excited about the future. I just hope Google keeps going with this instead of investing research with little to no effect on the populace (their driver-less cars come to mind immediately).

the coolness is you're sharing everything you see and do and other people get a chance to be awed by it

 

[Skel]

About time Google did something for the college kids, now when they shoot up the schools they’ll have a proper ammo count.

 

[SKORPI0]

There can only be one real use for this, anonymous video sex chat roulette. Let the tapping begin. :awe:

 

[Headcase_Fargone]

:biggrin:

And I think these glasses could be awesome. They can already show me a minimap, hopefully someday they'll let me easily track my health, armor, and ammo...

You could totally do this with a third party app. There are shot timer apps out there already that register the crack of a round being fired. Set the number of rounds your magazine holds and you're good to go. I'm so doing this for use at the shooting range...

 

[soccerballtux]

The problem i see is that people will focus more on their glasses than what they are doing IE: walking or driving etc, so there will likely be more accidents

no driving wearing glasses.

 

[dlock13]

I'd actually find that more useful. I really dont need to look at your face when I'm talking to you, I either know what you look like or I don't care.

Not you personally dlock, I'm sure you look very nice.

Well, shucks! Thanks!

And I guess that is true about video chatting. I've never seen it a point other than long distances and discovery to talk via video chat so I guess that would make sense. I'm just trying to view it from a bunch of different angles right now.

the coolness is you're sharing everything you see and do and other people get a chance to be awed by it

Yeah. That definitely makes sense, but I just wonder how many people would actually be using them and doing something awesome with them on.

Regardless, I would be one of those people that wore them just because of how awesome the technology is and what I essentially could do with them.

 

[alent1234]

if you're not under 30, single, spend all your money on partying and eating out and don't need to tell others how cool you are and all the awesome things you see daily then you don't understand

 

[poofyhairguy]

I'm confused by the whole video calling thing.

I understand you can see them, but what's the purpose of the other person video chatting when they can only see what you're looking at.

Almost every house has a mirror.

 

[dlock13]

Almost every house has a mirror.

That would be hilarious. I like your logic.

 

[BoberFett]

Almost every house has a mirror.

I would probably just look at the cat. It would be really disconcerting to the person on the other end of the line who was talking to me while the cat stared menacingly back.

 

[WelshBloke]

if you're not under 30, single, spend all your money on partying and eating out and don't need to tell others how cool you are and all the awesome things you see daily then you don't understand

Lol, I think your really obsessing a bit too much on the social networking side of this.:biggrin:


Although I do like Bobers idea about the cat, maybe they will bundle one :awe:

 

[TheStu]

I think this could be interesting, especially if it had ocular tracking (it looks like it from the video, but who knows), and could integrate with a vehicle computer. You connect your smartphone to your car over bluetooth and you have a HUD on the glasses. No need to look down to see your speed or anything like that, plus if it integrates nav, then think about what it could do when paired with Street View.

You are driving, WAY off in the distance is a sign, it knows what you are looking at, it knows where you are, it can estimate the distance to the sign, so it knows where it is, the sign magnifies and tells you that it is the sign for the exit you want, and yes, there is a gas station, cuz you are at a quarter tank (it knows that too).

 

[Darknite39]

I do aging research. I would like to see if these might be useful for diseased older adults (eg., those with Alzheimer's disease). I could see early stage AD being compensated for partly via offloading some cognition to the glasses. My grandfather said one of the worst things about it early on was forgetting names and in some cases a person's background info. These glasses + face recognition software could help out considerably, though the info provided would need to be limited in scope in order to be useful, I would guess (I don't do AD research). Even if this doesn't pan out, I would be interested in having a pair to tinker with. Very cool.

 

[Mopetar]

I think this could be interesting, especially if it had ocular tracking (it looks like it from the video, but who knows), and could integrate with a vehicle computer. You connect your smartphone to your car over bluetooth and you have a HUD on the glasses. No need to look down to see your speed or anything like that, plus if it integrates nav, then think about what it could do when paired with Street View.

You are driving, WAY off in the distance is a sign, it knows what you are looking at, it knows where you are, it can estimate the distance to the sign, so it knows where it is, the sign magnifies and tells you that it is the sign for the exit you want, and yes, there is a gas station, cuz you are at a quarter tank (it knows that too).

Could just as easily project a HUD on the windshield of the vehicle, and I think there are already some vehicles that do this to a limited degree, at least with the speed of the vehicle. Also, Google's turn by turn navigation (and even other solutions) are good enough where they can tell you when a turn is coming up so you don't even need to look at something. The only part that's missing is being able to tie in the system to the vehicle and even that's not a problem for smart phones since any vehicle could easily expose this information to the smart device.

 

[QueBert]

Google should invent something that cuts hair, that dude seriously needs a damn hair cut.

 

[KLin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3TAOYXT840

 

[foghorn67]

Is it necessary to make 10 posts in one thread if you don't like the topic's subject.
Really, one or two would do.