How Google Screwed Up Glass

I have an aunt that goes around with her camera recording everything in every family meetings. It's REALLY annoying. Glass would be a lot of pe ople able to do that without the obvious signal of having a camera in your hands - after all, when you have Glass on your face, you may or may not be recording.

mope54 said:

it's hard to imagine a modern space where people are intimidated by cameras and Facebook. Public space is inundated with people using their devices and posting whatever is going on with and around them. This is a total non-issue except in places that are already feuding with Google (or similar companies) and their employees...or anyone perceived to be attached to them above the norm. Places like SF and only then certain people within those places. I'd be surprised if anywhere close to a hundred people posted in this thread that they hate the thing. I don't even think half that would but a hundred is plenty enough cushion to still demonstrate that it's a relative non-issue.

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As someone living in San Francisco full of selfies, cameras, etc; I don't hate Glass at all, but the norm around here isn't to just be "cool" with people randomly walking up to you filming you. That would cause issues, and I'm not talking about the idiots vomiting on Google buses, either.

It's one thing to expect a random security camera being there unobtrusively filming (and honestly, I think it's out of sight, out of mind). It's another thing when it's in your face, personal, and also linked to the internet to immediately cross-index your face with all sorts of information.

I sympathize with the idea that it's creepy... but it's probably unavoidable. It will eventually look like every other pair of cheap sunglasses. Like most other things that have got in the way of privacy in the last 10 years, it will probably bother younger people less. Eventually they'll just be used to it.

Just like now, having some friends who post everything to Facebook.. The more I think about it, the more I expect future people to be very different from us.

It's not like you don't have a modicum of control in this people. Simply shun those that do not respect you enough to respect your privacy. Glass, or no Glass, it is something you should likely already be doing. Do not do business with them or their company. Exert what social and financial power you do have.
If you are in a situation where you simply can not avoid a Glasshole due to work, communicate in full, your distaste of being recorded in such a way. If you can not even do that then it sucks to be you.

bh192012 said:

I sympathize with the idea that it's creepy... but it's probably unavoidable. It will eventually look like every other pair of cheap sunglasses. Like most other things that have got in the way of privacy in the last 10 years, it will probably bother younger people less. Eventually they'll just be used to it.

Just like now, having some friends who post everything to Facebook.. The more I think about it, the more I expect future people to be very different from us.

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The intrusion is worse that you might think. Everyone has a stupid face moment several times a day. A moment from a cough or yawn or even speaking where if in person you usually saw what led upto it and ignore it. But lift that one frame of stupid face out of context and you can be made to look like an idiot.
http://twatter.com/profiles/blogs/stupid-faces-of-heads-of-states

Its worse than just a dumb facial expression. Behaviors taken out of context can be made to make people look like a-holes. Yelling at a young kid who just almost got himself hit by a car so he won't do it again i too taken out of context may make you look like an major asshole.

Douches on here are looking forward to this. To give other individuals the tabloid treatment stars usually get. Except stars asked for it sort of.

amdgamer said:

This is the section of the article that I think best describes where Glass went wrong

The wrong market was chosen. Google Glass could be a very important tool for professional use, and not just some kind of consumer tech toy on the face of a Stanford educated hipster from Mission Bay. Anyone operating a truck, a train, a taxi, a boat or an airplane could be demanding better data to help them navigate quicker and safer. Machine operators could be fed up to the minute information about a manufacturing process. Police and security personnel could receive data about threats around them to better protect the public. The list goes on. Google should have taken this device to a specific market and worked with the developers in that industry to create business-use applications that would be used to help companies provide better services. In turn, the public would be intrigued about this important and serious tool. It would not be ridiculed if it were shown to have a useful business application. And it would’ve gone a long way to justifying the $1,500 per unit price too.

The problem I see is that the public believes this is for entitled glasshole pricks who are socially unable to get along with normal people in the real world. As much as I absolutely hate Glass, it has so much potential in the right hands and right profession. I just do not like the idea of someone recording me without me knowing, and heaven forbid someone try to bring one of those into a public restroom.

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True that.

Simple Solution:
Just remove the camera!

Unless I missed something, it cant use the camera to detect you 'tapping and icon' - you ahve to use a trackpad for that, so really, take out the camera and make it just a smart android HUD, Win-Win! (and yes, for cripes sake make it look less nerdy... I'm sure there is a way to use molded circuit boards and such to hide components all over the place in the frames, nosepiece, arms, etc...

The problem is not really the camera it is that the camera belongs and is fully controlled by the owner of the glass. If they removed the capability to take photos or video on it and it was just used for tracking gestures and other functions then it would not be so bad.

Do you realize the only places you have reasonable expectation of not being in the lends of a camera is in your own home with the blinds shut even there you probably have more cameras than you think. Most red lights in bigger cities have cameras all banks all schools all ATM most if not all business have some. Then there are hundreds of sattilites that can zoom close enough to read a book from orbit. Not to mention drones ,dash cams ,go pros now glassholes. Mind boggling how many cameras are out there 1-2 per phone most game consoles have 1-3. TVs most laptops.

I hate my job. I just want something I can wear, that will let me watch a marathon of kitchen knightmares as i work, or so i can watch a porno while waiting in the seating area of the doctors office. or so i can read wikipedia articles about sharks as my wife is telling me about her day.

or have it operate as a HUD as I drive. do some silly overlay. have it impose a photo of a kitten over the giant advertisement for bread on the back of the semi trailer infront of me, or impose an image of flinstone houses over the town houses as I drive past. or have it impose an umbrella hat on every pedestrian I see.

Droc said:

I hate my job. I just want something I can wear, that will let me watch a marathon of kitchen knightmares as i work, or so i can watch a porno while waiting in the seating area of the doctors office. or so i can read wikipedia articles about sharks as my wife is telling me about her day.

or have it operate as a HUD as I drive. do some silly overlay. have it impose a photo of a kitten over the giant advertisement for bread on the back of the semi trailer infront of me, or impose an image of flinstone houses over the town houses as I drive past. or have it impose an umbrella hat on every pedestrian I see.

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Now this is exactly what I want it for.