Google Glasses : Othor Games

» Thu May 03, 2012 3:49 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9c6W4CCU9M4

Whats everyone's thought on this? They already have monitors replacing windows so it was just a matter of time something such as this would happen.

» Thu May 03, 2012 11:25 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3TAOYXT840

» Thu May 03, 2012 10:17 am

*future news report*

"This marks the end of the first week of Google's Augmented Reality glasses. The product has been a huge success due to various hardware vendor partnerships and has seen surprisingly high sales for such a new product."

"In unrelated news, car accidents across the globe are up 5000%"

» Thu May 03, 2012 8:56 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3TAOYXT840

That is sooo funny. people can't even walk and text at the same time without hurting themselves. Just think about all of the advertising one would have to watch.

» Thu May 03, 2012 1:51 pm

Until From Beyond occurs.

» Thu May 03, 2012 8:23 pm

idk i kind of like the idea, although personally i don't even use smart phones so i don't know that it would actually be worth spending hard dough on. since i doubt it would be cheap if it were ever realized.

» Thu May 03, 2012 8:24 am

If done correctly, I think these would be amazing - and if priced right, I'd buy a pair. As long as the interface is very minimalist while retaining functionality - and no advertisemants, of course - these could be very useful.

Of course, ocular implants would be preferable.

» Thu May 03, 2012 9:56 am

I have stuff like this on my phone and my computer. I don't need it in my face all the time.

» Thu May 03, 2012 3:30 pm

Then come Google Contacts.....

» Thu May 03, 2012 11:12 am

Terrible. I like it just the way it is on my smartphone. I don't want it integrated on my eyeballs.

» Thu May 03, 2012 12:48 pm

What if someone already needs glasses,?

» Thu May 03, 2012 8:45 pm

http://www.globalresearch.ca/coverStoryPictures/14249.jpg

» Thu May 03, 2012 7:16 pm

Terrible. I like it just the way it is on my smartphone. I don't want it integrated on my eyeballs.

QFT. As novel as it may seem, it really is rather unpractical to have things popping up all over your eyes.

Also the world would be pretty weird with everyone talking to themselves.

» Thu May 03, 2012 5:48 pm

Also the world would be pretty weird with everyone talking to themselves.

They already do. A few years ago if you saw people with their hand to their ear talking to themselves you would have thought them mad - now they are everywhere, walking down the street, in the supermarkest, in the bars. Google glasses, or a future derivative of them, will eventually seem normal.

» Thu May 03, 2012 8:51 pm

They had better make it look cool. I wanna look like Geordi or Something.

» Thu May 03, 2012 4:34 pm

Maybe on a window, not in glasses. I couldn't stand having words that close to my eyes. Something I would buy is a contacts or glasses that take pictures on command. Or a bionic eyeball that can zoom in and out.

» Thu May 03, 2012 8:34 am

I hope they rename it to "googly eyes"...

» Thu May 03, 2012 3:46 pm

This looks a bit stupid, imo. Won't these glasses damage our eyesight in the long run? Also, electronic devices so close to the eyes... just sounds wrong. What if there's a shortcircuit?

» Thu May 03, 2012 4:48 pm

I would rather have an Omni-tool.....

» Thu May 03, 2012 1:43 pm

Reminds me of a mix of Deus Ex and the EyePhone from Futurama

» Thu May 03, 2012 12:45 pm

Hey yo Google! Yeah You! Stop coming up with stupid [censored]! :tongue:

But seriously, they have some of the best marketers in the world. Can you believe they actually almost had me believing this is a good idea for the first few seconds???

» Thu May 03, 2012 4:09 pm

I have fairly bad myopia, and wear contacts that make anything within a couple inches of my face blurry, so I'm pretty sure this wouldn't work for me.

Not like I'd want it anyway. Do people really need social networking glued to their eyeballs? Are we that desperate for attention? Some of the stuff it could do, like maps, weather, phone calls would be useful, especially for businessmen and the like, but does anyone really need it literally right in his face?

» Thu May 03, 2012 11:37 am

This looks a bit stupid, imo. Won't these glasses damage our eyesight in the long run? Also, electronic devices so close to the eyes... just sounds wrong. What if there's a shortcircuit?

It depends on how the display works, really. If you have to constantly strain to see the picture or if it uses a bright light or something like that, then yeah, I can see it being bad for your eyes. Mind you, I'm not an eye doctor, so I have no idea if there's some risk there that I don't know about.

However, I don't think a device that small would have enough current running through it to do any real damage to you in a short circuit unless someone invents Fallout-style microfusion cells between now and then. The most you'd ever be likely to get is a minor burn unless a faulty battery somehow leaked onto you, and that's a small risk with any electronic device.

» Thu May 03, 2012 6:53 am

I'd definitely be up for trying out a pair. I have my phone and my http://www.wimm.com/ already, and I wear glasses all the time. I'm also not terribly clumsy.

They could (rather easily) add in an accelerometer that would only show the screen when a person is standing still, which would negate (most) of the people smacking their heads into poles.

» Thu May 03, 2012 11:43 am

Kinda neat idea I guess---unless you're not paying attention to where you going and slip down a manhole or walk off a cliff.