Google Glass

lol

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/31/google-glass-drivers

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

Google Ass

what does it do?

It makes your ass ask questions

excited

you activate it by saying 'may i ASS you a question'

my man

Google Ass helps you ASSertain the truth

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/press-here/Google-Glass-Broke-Up-Founder-Sergey-Brins-Marriage-250217621.html

http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2014/04/sergey-brin-amanda-rosenberg-affair

i like "google glasses" btw joe, let's make that happen

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

figured someone was going to post the Luxotica deal

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 Rift
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/25/facebook-buys-oculus-vr-a-virtual-reality-gaming-company-for-2-billion/

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.

ie the perfect google glass customer if there ever was one

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?!?!

post some more links about those guys and we'll be shitty to them too

I'm not talking about this thread ... I'm talking about stuff I've seen on Facebook and Twitter.

no but seriously post some more, little makes me feel more spiritually righteous than reading about face computer assholes

can you use these to make the world appear rotoscoped/cel-shaded yet

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.

a mature virtua boy

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."

ALL THE STABS

don't blame me I voted for the tank

lol the descriptions I read of that made it sound like it was at some wrong-side-of-the-tracks bar full of toughs -- those people just look like punky grad students.

The San Mateo resident

yeah get out of my city you viper

I dunno, calling people bitch and white trash to their face in a bar is pretty much grounds for being assaulted what did she think was going to happen

The thing is I already have the bias that a person who would wear google glass into a bar like that would have to be an asshole, and that video just confirms my bias

someone wearing a really blatant $$$/status symbol calling other people white trash rmde

can't decide how i feel about this being the final ruling class of humanity

I had a bunch of snarky comments to post while watching this but then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN4sMISyYgk

All I can take away from this and the salad douchebag is that women are getting a raw deal with Google Glass®

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIzDsGyxsQM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DPF_pWIy3w

im waiting for some no name chinese company makes a 20$ version

is the point to make everyones life look like a crappy game of DOOM

Gonna be so glad I got my killing of Robot Hitler on tape. Hope PETA doesn't come after me about all those dogs.

That "Woman's Day" video could use a trigger warning.

would be cool to permanently have a clock in my field of vision, slowly ticking down, mb monitoring nmy

hmm, - mb monitoring my diet/vitals &c. to let me know how long I had left

I want a list of my inventories at the bottom of the display, and stock phrases I can choose from when conversing. "So ... tell me about Loom™"

wasnt tehre somethign in The Jerk where hsi special glasses made someone drive their car off a cliff - thats gonna happen with google glass

why is there no google dildo

I don't feel like that domestic violence video has a very high effectiveness:shock ratio.

why is there no google dildo

you know, for glassholes

https://twitter.com/kylebrussell/status/454811602923958272

is that locution, with no articles, no possessive pronouns, meant to make it more like a name (but all glassfaces happen to call it by the same name, like a million jerks who name their dogs 'rex') or more like every user's face is in contact with one and the same Glass for which they are just meat vehicles

perhaps

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.

Twitter drops Google Glass, app no longer available

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.

I saw one of these this irl at a bar a while ago and was completely incensed the whole time

They are inherently stupid and douchey looking in a way that makes me feel IA.

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 ???????

I see these v occasionally around town - not v often, less so recently it seems like - and yeah it is p irritating

thus facilitating ???????

civilizational breakdown

Saw my first. In fact, seeing it now. He's sitting opposite me. Military green fleecejacket, combat pants, rucksack. Embarked at Blackheath, of course

ask him for directions

Really greasy hair, also typing to a phone, presumably playing COD with his ocular movements or something

okay glass, explode

ask to have your picture taken w him

He's now typing to TWO phones

And now got off the bus. I did not follow him home

yell "DEVO!" at him

Tell him "you're killing our city!"

Next time I shall ask him to order a pizza* without using his hands.

to the bus

lol

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

Want one!!!

i miss google glass

where have all the douchebags gone

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Crxkc2uUIAAwgGS.jpg

one of my first memes pic.twitter.com/wuvBm1OZ9u

— Donald (@getfiscal) April 15, 2018

excellent

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.

SORRY DUDES. I'M ...

https://i.imgur.com/kM9weIx.jpg

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