Everything that's wrong with tech and yet I am somehow interested.
― Actually, I did build it you fucktard (dandydonweiner), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/22/4013406/i-used-google-glass-its-the-future-with-monthly-updates
― Actually, I did build it you fucktard (dandydonweiner), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
Talked about like crazy here
would you wear those google-internet-cyborg glasses?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
fucking Search refuses to read my mind
― Actually, I did build it you fucktard (dandydonweiner), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://thenextweb.com/video/2013/05/01/google-glass-and-the-future-of-wearable-computing-with-andrew-keen-and-robert-scoble-video/
an exquisite video in which oblivious shitbag robert scoble (a) thinks everyone should like having a video camera pointed at their face (b) writes off tacit discomfort as people not magically understanding how this thing works (c) carries on with some ridiculous utopian bullshit of everyone bolting one of these things to their head (d) wears this thing when he's HAVING A SLASH AT A URINAL (e) blithely glosses over very real privacy concerns and (f) constantly CONSTANTLY interrupts the interviewer
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 3 May 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link
i have not hated any one person this much in a very long time
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 3 May 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
he is such a blustering idiot that he seems more like an actor playing a blustering idiot than a real human being
― iatee, Saturday, 4 May 2013 04:28 (ten years ago) link
oh god, wikipedia says he was a 'longhorn evangelist' at microsoft
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 4 May 2013 06:54 (ten years ago) link
ReceptionRobert Scoble has received mixed reactions with his articles and videos, many of which are negative. He is credited with social media spam.
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 4 May 2013 06:56 (ten years ago) link
links to a reddit thread in which one person complains about him spamming, but still
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 4 May 2013 06:57 (ten years ago) link
never thought i'd see a "technology evangelist" answer a question about whether or not his cyberglasses might one day include a cell phone with "no -- because of battery life, weight, and cost." oh you mean the three things in tech that do nothing but go down.
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 4 May 2013 12:39 (ten years ago) link
except for battery life i mean that goes up
other than that the high point's prob when the other guy says that people might not like having cameras maybe-or-maybe-not pointed at them in the street and the longhorn evangelist explains, twice, like he wasn't understood the first time, that in america it is legal to take pictures of anyone you want in the street and "you can't do shit about it"
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 4 May 2013 12:42 (ten years ago) link
otm, the man's clearly got no idea about technology as well as social conventions (or was just being an obstructionist dick)
and the longhorn evangelist explains, twice, like he wasn't understood the first time, that in america it is legal to take pictures of anyone you want in the street and "you can't do shit about it"
add to that the incredibly loud body language of the interviewer (how he didn't whack scoble right there on the stage i don't know) and the whole thing would be an hilarious farce if scoble weren't a real person
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 4 May 2013 12:57 (ten years ago) link
his point was clearly that most people won't talk to anyone with a video camera strapped to their face, indicator light or otherwise. i straight up won't go near anyone with a spycam strapped to their face. you want to speak to me? remove your dorkpants video camera or fuck you, no third option.
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 4 May 2013 12:58 (ten years ago) link
also this covers a lot of the admirably idealist but still thoroughly misguided ui bullshit around ~being~ the interface for google glass
Designers at Fjord speculate that these kinds of body-based micro-interactions are the future of interface design. “Why swipe your arm when you can just rub your fingers together,” they write. “What could be more natural than staring at something to select it, nodding to approve something?… For privacy, you’ll be able to use imperceptible movements, or even hidden ones such as flicking your tongue across your teeth.”
http://www.boomeranghq.net/sites/www.boomeranghq.net/files/imagecache/character_image/characters/the-jetsons-george.gif
jane his wife
http://www.boomeranghq.net/sites/www.boomeranghq.net/files/imagecache/character_image/characters/the-jetsons-jane.gif
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 4 May 2013 13:06 (ten years ago) link
she's moving imperceptibly, right now
― j., Saturday, 4 May 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
pinching your own right nipple (males only) brings up the text message feature. Nipple feature was disabled for females when they had pregnant women run it and it brought up confusion via the infant's grabbiness.
― Cunga, Saturday, 18 May 2013 05:12 (ten years ago) link
lactic feedback
― umair coque (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 18 May 2013 05:54 (ten years ago) link
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514136/your-body-does-not-want-to-be-an-interface/
― eris bueller (lukas), Saturday, 18 May 2013 06:02 (ten years ago) link
otfm
so sick of ux nutbars wanting to co-opt my existence for their dumb shit. if i blink it's probably because i actually need to blink
― umair coque (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 18 May 2013 06:58 (ten years ago) link
i mean idealism experimentation art &c &c all fine, but if that scoble jerk comes anywhere near me i will spiflicate
― umair coque (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 18 May 2013 07:00 (ten years ago) link
lol
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/31/google-glass-drivers
― caek, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link
The first drafts of “Super Sad” had a technology called The Eye, which was basically an äppärät inside a contact lens. My editor suggested that it was a little much, and it certainly was in 2008, at a time when even the first iterations of the iPhone seemed like they were beamed back to our world from some glorious future civilization in Cupertino. By 2013, having a miniature screen above my right eye tell me all about “Ashton Kutcher’s new job” feels about right.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/05/130805fa_fact_shteyngart?currentPage=all
― mizzell, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
Google Ass
― waterface, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link
what does it do?
― markers, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
It makes your ass ask questions
― waterface, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 18:48 (ten years ago) link
excited
― markers, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
you activate it by saying 'may i ASS you a question'
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
my man
― waterface, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
Google Ass helps you ASSertain the truth
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/press-here/Google-Glass-Broke-Up-Founder-Sergey-Brins-Marriage-250217621.html
― That's So (Eazy), Friday, 14 March 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2014/04/sergey-brin-amanda-rosenberg-affair
― caek, Saturday, 15 March 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
i like "google glasses" btw joe, let's make that happen
― caek, Saturday, 15 March 2014 17:16 (ten years ago) link
i saw someone with one irl last week. i wish i had one so i couldve gone up to him and been like
http://abcnews.go.com/images/Technology/ht_google_glasses_shower_jef_130429_wblog.jpg
― am0n, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
figured someone was going to post the Luxotica deal
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-25/google-to-de-dorkify-glass-in-partnership-with-ray-ban-maker-luxottica
While I thought it was going to be about Facebook buying Oculus Rifthttp://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/25/facebook-buys-oculus-vr-a-virtual-reality-gaming-company-for-2-billion/
― Øystein, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link
Remember the girl from the Bay Area who got "assaulted" for wearing google glass?
It turns out she was taunting people by calling them names and being a drunk asshole while she was recording the entire confrontation.
She also has been served two restraining orders in the past few years: the first from her own mother (!) for violence, and the second by her neighbors for recording them without their consent on her phone.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
ie the perfect google glass customer if there ever was one
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 19:44 (ten years ago) link
There have been some shitty male Glass customers in the news but for some reason the vitriol against this woman is 1000x more heated. I wonder if sexism is at all involved?!?!
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
post some more links about those guys and we'll be shitty to them too
― j., Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
I'm not talking about this thread ... I'm talking about stuff I've seen on Facebook and Twitter.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
no but seriously post some more, little makes me feel more spiritually righteous than reading about face computer assholes
― j., Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
can you use these to make the world appear rotoscoped/cel-shaded yet
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link
I wonder if sexism is at all involved?!?!
probably. but she also went overboard with publicizing it, calling a hatecrime etc., which upped the ante a bit.
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
a mature virtua boy
― zxc, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Sarah-Slocum-the-infamous-face-of-Google-Glass-5348911.php
Jason McDonald, an Internet marketing consultant at JM Internet Group in San Jose, said Slocum's emergence comes as the public is looking for something tangible to latch onto in the debate over Glass."People are quick to condemn the person, or come to a person's defense, because they really hit a nerve on an issue," McDonald said. "In this case, she's become a flash point. She's like the guy in font of the tank at Tiananmen Square."
"People are quick to condemn the person, or come to a person's defense, because they really hit a nerve on an issue," McDonald said. "In this case, she's become a flash point. She's like the guy in font of the tank at Tiananmen Square."
― j., Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:12 (ten years ago) link
ALL THE STABS
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
don't blame me I voted for the tank
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:35 (ten years ago) link
Encountered my first Glass-wearer a couple of weeks ago at a medium-sized social event in NYC. The crowd there was mostly tech-ignorant - maybe a few people there were aware of the product but there was no rioting. Once you notice them, you're constantly aware of their presence - like when you first notice workplace surveillance cameras.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 00:11 (ten years ago) link
Do these things only respond to the masters voice? Cause otherwise you could prank people wearing them pretty easily
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 00:42 (ten years ago) link
the only utility I see for this device is amateur porn. So WHERE IS IT?!?!?!?
the thought of porn with googly people in it makes me queasy
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 09:19 (ten years ago) link
you have to have sex twice, in exactly the same way; the first time it's the woman wearing the google glass and the second time it's the guy, then you edit together and it looks like nobody's wearing it
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 09:47 (ten years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, April 15, 2014 8:10 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark
GoPro has this market cornered
― 龜, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 09:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.glassandsex.com/
Happy to live in a small town where I'm not likely to meet anyone wearing these in a good long while yet.
Are there any good articles about what in the above-linked article is referred to as "the anti-tech fervor" in SF? That's the side of these recent stories that has struck me as most interesting. I gather it's in large part about how lots of rich technology workers have made the city more expensive and difficult to lie in for everyone else. Would love to see read more about that and about what other sides there are to the hostility.
― Øystein, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 10:20 (ten years ago) link
When can I buy one of these???
― Jeff, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 11:07 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/pqRFj6X.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 2 May 2014 13:39 (nine years ago) link
the deluxe model
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 May 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
Google 'Stache
― Diddley Hollyberry (Phil D.), Friday, 2 May 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
how to create your own glasshole-free zone
― Οὖτις, Friday, 6 June 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
Well, sort of. The glasses have 12gb of free storage space, so people can still film you and upload it somewhere when they get home.
― Øystein, Friday, 6 June 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, April 15, 2014 4:47 AM (1 month ago)
Incredible post
― Dreamland, Saturday, 7 June 2014 03:47 (nine years ago) link
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes/ko4azt/june-12--2014---christopher-walken
jason jones segment interviewing sarah slocum, other brave persecuted visionaries
― j., Friday, 13 June 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
http://coolgoogleglasswearers.tumblr.com/
― Øystein, Monday, 30 June 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
ha, ok. good one.
― pplains, Monday, 30 June 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/filmmakers-dramatic-spec-ad-google-glass-getting-lots-fans-including-google-160341smart advertising; selling glass as a babelfish is the first argument i've heard in favor of getting one
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
i miss batshit glasshole stories, maybe they brought something useful to the rest of us after all
― j., Friday, 26 September 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
android wear is the thing now
― markers, Friday, 26 September 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
So can anyone in SF tell me what actually is the deal with this kerfuffle over the Mission Park soccer field and some tech bros? (not actually a google glass issue but sounds like it might be a "File Under: Glasshole" kind of thing.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Saturday, 11 October 2014 04:13 (nine years ago) link
really the wrong thread but this assessment is pretty fair: http://missionlocal.org/2014/10/turf-wars-at-mission-soccer-field/
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 11 October 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
It sounds like ultimately this might really be the fault of a (maybe?) bad policy rather than the geeks, since they had in fact reserved the field through the city, but perhaps the introduction of a reservation system represents the encroachment of gentrification in an uncomfortable way.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Sunday, 12 October 2014 03:26 (nine years ago) link
perhaps
― the late great, Sunday, 12 October 2014 03:37 (nine years ago) link
I only said perhaps because I don't know when the reservation system was actually enacted/whether it was the result of gentrification or whether it was more a policy that was in place but not previously used much.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Sunday, 12 October 2014 03:42 (nine years ago) link
Twitter drops Google Glass, app no longer available
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 27 October 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
I have now seen this thing exactly twice in the wild to date -- once on 3rd Ave in Manhattan, and then this past Sunday on some dude who wound up on the Jumbotron at the Nets game. I wonder if he had some kind of enhanced viewing experience going on.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
I saw one of these this irl at a bar a while ago and was completely incensed the whole time
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
They are inherently stupid and douchey looking in a way that makes me feel IA.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
i sit on a committee that approves (or not) proposals made by students and faculty for spending the student tech fee that amounts to gazillions of dollars a year. recently i got one from some dirtbag professor who wants the university (rather, the students) to buy him google glass--his rationale was that students would be able to text him questions (from inside the lecture hall) and they would appear on his glasses, thus facilitating ???????
― adam, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
I see these v occasionally around town - not v often, less so recently it seems like - and yeah it is p irritating
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
thus facilitating ???????
civilizational breakdown
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
Saw my first. In fact, seeing it now. He's sitting opposite me. Military green fleecejacket, combat pants, rucksack. Embarked at Blackheath, of course
― imago, Monday, 17 November 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
ask him for directions
― Οὖτις, Monday, 17 November 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
Really greasy hair, also typing to a phone, presumably playing COD with his ocular movements or something
― imago, Monday, 17 November 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
okay glass, explode
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 November 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
ask to have your picture taken w him
― Οὖτις, Monday, 17 November 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
He's now typing to TWO phones
― imago, Monday, 17 November 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
And now got off the bus. I did not follow him home
― imago, Monday, 17 November 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
yell "DEVO!" at him
― Οὖτις, Monday, 17 November 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
Tell him "you're killing our city!"
― holla back for a dope nakh (how's life), Monday, 17 November 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
Next time I shall ask him to order a pizza* without using his hands.
to the bus
― imago, Monday, 17 November 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Monday, 17 November 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-12/29/google-glass-enterprise-edition-confirmed
there is still hope for a new wave of google glass douchebag stories, since they are targeting the workplace now
― j., Wednesday, 30 December 2015 00:20 (eight years ago) link
Want one!!!
― Jeff, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 01:30 (eight years ago) link
i miss google glass
where have all the douchebags gone
― j., Tuesday, 17 January 2017 03:08 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Crxkc2uUIAAwgGS.jpg
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
one of my first memes pic.twitter.com/wuvBm1OZ9u— Donald (@getfiscal) April 15, 2018
― j., Sunday, 15 April 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
excellent
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 16 April 2018 04:05 (six years ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/11/20959066/apple-augmented-reality-ar-headset-glasses-rumors-reported-release-date
Apple plans to release its first augmented reality headset in 2022, followed by a smaller device — a pair of AR glasses — in 2023, according to a new report from The Information.Apple’s entry into the world of augmented reality has long been rumored, with many in the tech world seeing AR and VR as the next big platforms after mobile. But an exact entry date has been unclear, with some analysts suggesting a 2020 launch. Citing internal presentations made at Apple’s headquarters, The Information pushes this rumored timeline back to 2022, presumably due to difficulties in developing the technology.As well as the new timeline, The Information’s report offers new detail about Apple’s AR headset, codenamed N301. The device supposedly resembles a slimmer version of the Oculus Quest, a virtual reality headset released in May. It has AR and VR capabilities, uses external cameras to map the user’s surroundings (including the outlines of people, furniture, and rooms), and has a high-resolution display to show information and blend virtual objects with the real world. Employees were told that the company would be reaching out to developers to build software for the headset from 2021.After Apple has built this larger headset it plans to release a smaller pair of AR glasses. Unlike the headset, these will be designed to be worn for longer periods of time, with The Information reporting that “current prototypes look like high-priced sunglasses with thick frames that house the battery and chips,” according to a person who has seen prototypes. Apple has also reportedly explored lenses that darken when in operation, to signal to observers that the user is otherwise occupied.
Apple’s entry into the world of augmented reality has long been rumored, with many in the tech world seeing AR and VR as the next big platforms after mobile. But an exact entry date has been unclear, with some analysts suggesting a 2020 launch. Citing internal presentations made at Apple’s headquarters, The Information pushes this rumored timeline back to 2022, presumably due to difficulties in developing the technology.
As well as the new timeline, The Information’s report offers new detail about Apple’s AR headset, codenamed N301. The device supposedly resembles a slimmer version of the Oculus Quest, a virtual reality headset released in May. It has AR and VR capabilities, uses external cameras to map the user’s surroundings (including the outlines of people, furniture, and rooms), and has a high-resolution display to show information and blend virtual objects with the real world. Employees were told that the company would be reaching out to developers to build software for the headset from 2021.
After Apple has built this larger headset it plans to release a smaller pair of AR glasses. Unlike the headset, these will be designed to be worn for longer periods of time, with The Information reporting that “current prototypes look like high-priced sunglasses with thick frames that house the battery and chips,” according to a person who has seen prototypes. Apple has also reportedly explored lenses that darken when in operation, to signal to observers that the user is otherwise occupied.
― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Monday, 11 November 2019 23:12 (four years ago) link
SORRY DUDES. I'M ...
https://i.imgur.com/kM9weIx.jpg
O C C U P I E D
― pplains, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link