Google unveils next step in distractions

• gorocks99

  

  Augmented-reality glasses:
  
  [video=youtube;9c6W4CCU9M4][/video]
  
  http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/google-begins-testing-its-augmented-reality-glasses/
• gut

  So we don't have to talk to people anymore, and now we won't have to look at them either?
  
  The "beer goggle" potential of this technology could be huge!
• justincredible

  

  I'll wait until Apple releases a set.
• gorocks99

  

  justincredible;1136831 wrote:I'll wait until Apple releases a set.

  Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the eyePhone
• Glory Days

  

  A.) do you guys walk around talking to yourself like that? just checking incase i am doing something wrong.
  
  B.) this would be the end of google after the giant class action lawsuit for people being injured and killed while using this device.
• like_that

  

  justincredible;1136831 wrote:I'll wait until Apple releases a set.

  GAAAAAAAAACCCCKKK!
  
  /dlazz
• Fab1b

  

  Have to admit looks pretty damn sweet though
• Pick6

  

  pretty awesome.
• Sykotyk

  

  Glory Days;1136897 wrote:A.) do you guys walk around talking to yourself like that? just checking incase i am doing something wrong.
  
  B.) this would be the end of google after the giant class action lawsuit for people being injured and killed while using this device.

  I'm sure the EULA would be pretty lawyered up on this one.
  
  When I read "augmented-reality glasses", I was thinking it was "photoshop-on-the-go". Now, THOSE glasses, I'd pay for.
• Glory Days

  

  Sykotyk;1137217 wrote:I'm sure the EULA would be pretty lawyered up on this one.
  
  When I read "augmented-reality glasses", I was thinking it was "photoshop-on-the-go". Now, THOSE glasses, I'd pay for.

  haha isnt that what beer is for? photoshops all the fugly girls at the bars haha.
• Iliketurtles

  

  Those look pretty sweet.
• gorocks99

  

  [video=youtube;t3TAOYXT840][/video]
• gorocks99

  

  Just released a new promo video for the glasses, and will be allowing pre-sale to conference winners starting at the end of March ($1,500 btw):
  
  http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-it-feels/
  
• vball10set

  I get motion sickness just watching the video
• Fly4Fun

  

  I'm on the fence about this. It just seems like one more thing to disconnect people from reality and being in the moment.
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  Fly4Fun;1393080 wrote:I'm on the fence about this. It just seems like one more thing to disconnect people from reality and being in the moment.

  The wave of the future, Dude. 100% digital.
• tk421

  

  Anyone seen that episode of Star Trek TNG where they get hooked on those eyeglass thingies that everyone is wearing, playing games and getting rewarded with pleasure making everyone walk around in a daze? Yeah, giant nerd but this reminds me of that.
• gut

  gorocks99;1136832 wrote:Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the eyePhone

  Sony may have equal claim to that...they just applied to patent the EyePad
• gut

  I could see this as being how we watch tv in the future. Be a good way to make tv even more anti-social than it already is.
  
  Can't see wearing these, but the potential for gaming and tv is huge.
• tk421

  

  [video=youtube;_mRF0rBXIeg][/video]
  
  
  This is what wearing Google glasses will really be like, and Google will record everything you ever look at to further "improve" their targeted ads.
• Fly4Fun

  

  tk421;1393101 wrote:[video=youtube;_mRF0rBXIeg][/video]
  
  
  This is what wearing Google glasses will really be like, and Google will record everything you ever look at to further "improve" their targeted ads.

  I laughed. But as a serious consideration, I wonder what something like this would do as far as privacy expectations. If everything is being recorded and stored on some 3rd party server, there really isn't much of a privacy expectation. It pretty much paves the way for government monitoring 24/7.
• tk421

  

  God help the first person to wear these glasses while having sex
• said_aouita

  

  Thank god I'll be dead before these become common.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Glasses look dorky as hell.
• Devils Advocate

  

  Fly4Fun;1393080 wrote:I'm on the fence about this. It just seems like one more thing to disconnect people from reality and being in the moment.

  Lotz must of had these for years.