Very cool. As someone that regularly wears glasses, it is just about the only wearable I would consider buying. (except maybe a cyberbrain, but only after they cure Cyberbrain Sclerosis)
They're less obvious than Google glass, but it's still obvious that they're not glasses.
The problem with Google glass wasn't that it looks goofy, it was that unstable people lose their minds when they see glasses with a camera on them, even in environments where cameras are common.
Stable people properly don't want their conversations recorded by people who are wearing these things. It's far more obvious when someone is trying to do this with a phone.
And yes, people do look doofy wearing these things. They think they look cool, but they don't.
Stable people don't automatically assume that everyone *with* a camera is actually *using* the camera to record them in particular; it's very arrogant to assume you're interesting enough for some random person wearing Glass to want to record you. If you're worried about being recorded as part of the general background then you've got serious problems entering any urban area.
Yes it's a bit more obvious with a phone but it's not like that is the only other choice - there have been incognito cameras and audio recording equipment for a long time, how is it you think law enforcement perform covert surveillance or journalists collect their stories from unwilling subjects? They aren't using a GoPro strapped to their nose...
Not even sure how it's less obvious with a phone... All it takes is the right pocket positioning and you're in business for covert recording, with OIS no less. If you're that scared of being recorded you should probably just not leave home.
For those of you whose thinking is stuck in the 20th century, the vast majority of businesses you visit nowadays are recording you with surveillance cameras. The idea that you can prevent yourself from being recorded by stopping people from using Google Glass is pure ignorance.
Leaving aside the stable/unstable debate, if you are out in public you have no legal expectation of privacy. Anybody can record anything you do. We're happy about that when they record cops, but the principle is no different for anyone else. Anything you're doing in a public place is clearly something you didn't mean to keep private.
Note that that is an US thing, in Europe, privacy laws and what's called 'portrait right' actually prohibit you from recording people and their property without their permission. You CAN take pictures of groups of people without permission, but you need to have at least four (or three, not sure) people in a picture or video at a time to be legally safe.
Reality is even more complicated as press of course has additional rights (and these days, is a blogger press or not?) and 'public persons' like royalty and politicians aren't protected either.
How did we get to the point where you can build such a project without reading Snowcrash? Gargoyles are rude by definition. The hatred that glassholes receive is not just by looking stupid (although that was a good part of the hatred of gargoyles) but by actively finishing off all remaining privacy by putting what little of public life that is hoped to be off-line into computers (and furiously indexed and mined by google and other glass-makers) and probably facebook.
Stealth glass isn't better, it's far worse. It just means that those spied on are much more justified in damaging the glasses and glassholes when they realize they have been spied on without knowing it. Ask the former East Germans how they would feel if they suddenly found out who the STASI informers were (because that's essentially what the glassholes *are*, although that really applies for NSA employees and contractors).
Spied on... In a presumably public space? Are you actually condoning beating up people wearing cameras? Just trying to figure out what degree of lunacy we're dealing with here...
so what about CCTV and people taking selfies, and party photographers taking pictures? If you want to do private stuff in public, you better get out of urban areas.
Besides, in low-tech villages people talking are always the most effective, not cameras.
chill out. Henri Cartier-Bresson ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresso... ) not the first or last, but most well known, street photographer. when he did most of his most well known work in the 1940s and 1950s, no one complained. only the self-absorbed of today make a fuss.
The use of Polycarbonate and the explicit mention that Infinite Focus is possible are both excellent pieces of news for integrating a HUD into a motorcycle helmet visor. Having view-through access to speed/gear and basic symbolic lane/exit guidance would be a huge safety advantage over having to glance down at instruments.
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nathanddrews - Friday, January 8, 2016 - link
Very cool. As someone that regularly wears glasses, it is just about the only wearable I would consider buying. (except maybe a cyberbrain, but only after they cure Cyberbrain Sclerosis)Refuge - Friday, January 8, 2016 - link
About to start wearing non-prescription glasses baby! :)JeffFlanagan - Friday, January 8, 2016 - link
They're less obvious than Google glass, but it's still obvious that they're not glasses.The problem with Google glass wasn't that it looks goofy, it was that unstable people lose their minds when they see glasses with a camera on them, even in environments where cameras are common.
melgross - Friday, January 8, 2016 - link
Stable people properly don't want their conversations recorded by people who are wearing these things. It's far more obvious when someone is trying to do this with a phone.And yes, people do look doofy wearing these things. They think they look cool, but they don't.
kingpotnoodle - Friday, January 8, 2016 - link
Stable people don't automatically assume that everyone *with* a camera is actually *using* the camera to record them in particular; it's very arrogant to assume you're interesting enough for some random person wearing Glass to want to record you. If you're worried about being recorded as part of the general background then you've got serious problems entering any urban area.Yes it's a bit more obvious with a phone but it's not like that is the only other choice - there have been incognito cameras and audio recording equipment for a long time, how is it you think law enforcement perform covert surveillance or journalists collect their stories from unwilling subjects? They aren't using a GoPro strapped to their nose...
Impulses - Friday, January 8, 2016 - link
Not even sure how it's less obvious with a phone... All it takes is the right pocket positioning and you're in business for covert recording, with OIS no less. If you're that scared of being recorded you should probably just not leave home.Solandri - Friday, January 8, 2016 - link
For those of you whose thinking is stuck in the 20th century, the vast majority of businesses you visit nowadays are recording you with surveillance cameras. The idea that you can prevent yourself from being recorded by stopping people from using Google Glass is pure ignorance.pjcamp - Friday, January 8, 2016 - link
Leaving aside the stable/unstable debate, if you are out in public you have no legal expectation of privacy. Anybody can record anything you do. We're happy about that when they record cops, but the principle is no different for anyone else. Anything you're doing in a public place is clearly something you didn't mean to keep private.jospoortvliet - Saturday, January 9, 2016 - link
Note that that is an US thing, in Europe, privacy laws and what's called 'portrait right' actually prohibit you from recording people and their property without their permission. You CAN take pictures of groups of people without permission, but you need to have at least four (or three, not sure) people in a picture or video at a time to be legally safe.Reality is even more complicated as press of course has additional rights (and these days, is a blogger press or not?) and 'public persons' like royalty and politicians aren't protected either.
rtho782 - Saturday, January 9, 2016 - link
That's not how it works in the UK. You can't publish their face online or whatever, but recording is fine.Murloc - Friday, January 8, 2016 - link
nothing stops people from turning on the recording in the bathroom and putting the phone in their jacket pocket and recording what you say.You probably shouldn't tell stuff you don't want known to people you don't trust.
The planned parenthood fetus body parts thing wasn't done with google glass.
limitedaccess - Friday, January 8, 2016 - link
Which why I'm wondering if there are any products sans the camera?Aimed as a content consumption device.
SleepyFE - Saturday, January 9, 2016 - link
I think they are real glasses. Joshua said they didn't correct his vision enough.wumpus - Friday, January 8, 2016 - link
How did we get to the point where you can build such a project without reading Snowcrash? Gargoyles are rude by definition. The hatred that glassholes receive is not just by looking stupid (although that was a good part of the hatred of gargoyles) but by actively finishing off all remaining privacy by putting what little of public life that is hoped to be off-line into computers (and furiously indexed and mined by google and other glass-makers) and probably facebook.Stealth glass isn't better, it's far worse. It just means that those spied on are much more justified in damaging the glasses and glassholes when they realize they have been spied on without knowing it. Ask the former East Germans how they would feel if they suddenly found out who the STASI informers were (because that's essentially what the glassholes *are*, although that really applies for NSA employees and contractors).
Impulses - Friday, January 8, 2016 - link
Spied on... In a presumably public space? Are you actually condoning beating up people wearing cameras? Just trying to figure out what degree of lunacy we're dealing with here...Murloc - Friday, January 8, 2016 - link
so what about CCTV and people taking selfies, and party photographers taking pictures?If you want to do private stuff in public, you better get out of urban areas.
Besides, in low-tech villages people talking are always the most effective, not cameras.
FunBunny2 - Friday, January 8, 2016 - link
chill out. Henri Cartier-Bresson ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresso... ) not the first or last, but most well known, street photographer. when he did most of his most well known work in the 1940s and 1950s, no one complained. only the self-absorbed of today make a fuss.edzieba - Saturday, January 9, 2016 - link
The use of Polycarbonate and the explicit mention that Infinite Focus is possible are both excellent pieces of news for integrating a HUD into a motorcycle helmet visor. Having view-through access to speed/gear and basic symbolic lane/exit guidance would be a huge safety advantage over having to glance down at instruments.