Speculations on time starting back up/google glass

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Re: Speculations on time starting back up/google glass

Postby justdrew » Fri May 03, 2013 6:00 am

should read:


tl;dr version: Spoiler:wherever you go, you just take your problems with you.

the video's ok
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Re: Speculations on time starting back up/google glass

Postby tazmic » Fri May 03, 2013 7:13 am

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http://chi2013.acm.org/

CHI and the Future Robot Enslavement of Humankind; A Retrospective:
(http://chischedule.org/2013/previews_HD ... alt176.ogg)

"Abstract
As robots from the future, we are compelled to present
this important historical document which discusses how
the systematic investigation of interactive technology
facilitated and hastened the enslavement of mankind
by robots during the 21st Century. We describe how the
CHI community, in general, was largely responsible for
this eventuality, as well as how specific strands of
interaction design work were key to the enslavement.
We also mention the futility of some reactionary work
emergent in your time that sought to challenge the
inevitable subjugation. We conclude by congratulating
the CHI community for your tireless work in promoting
and supporting our evil robot agenda."

http://altchi.org/2013/submissions/submission_bkirman2_0.pdf
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Re: Speculations on time starting back up/google glass

Postby brekin » Wed Jun 19, 2013 9:39 pm

Google's minimizing of privacy concerns with google glass are so sophomoric.
The whole "I'm looking at you so you would know I'm recording you" line is ridiculous.
What happens when someone takes off their google glass(es?). They can just as easily have
them hanging out of a pocket recording things I imagine.

Privacy Officials From 7 Nations Question Google On Glass' 'Ubiquitous Surveillance'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/1 ... ref=topbar

Privacy officials from seven nations sent a letter Wednesday to Google chief executive Larry Page, pressing him to explain the privacy implications of Glass, Google's forthcoming wearable computing device.

The letter, co-signed by 10 privacy and data commissioners from Mexico, Israel, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland and a Dutch representative from the European Commission, outlined eight questions concerning Glass' privacy safeguards. They ranged from what information Glass collects and how Google uses that data, to how Glass might incorporate facial recognition in the future.

"Fears of ubiquitous surveillance of individuals by other individuals, whether through such recordings or through other applications currently being developed, have been raised," the officials wrote. "We understand that other companies are developing similar products, but you are a leader in this area, the first to test your product 'in the wild' so to speak, and the first to confront the ethical issues that such a product entails."

Glass, which is worn on a user's face, is equipped with a camera, touchpad and small screen suspended over the wearer's right eye to display messages and alerts. Glass connects to the user's smartphone via Bluetooth and, like a smartphone, can be used for messaging, taking pictures, calling up driving directions, placing calls and searching the web. Developers from Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and CNN, among other firms, have begun releasing apps for Glass, though Google recently updated its policies to bar facial recognition and pornography apps.

The privacy authorities who co-signed the letter to Page noted that, though they'd encouraged companies to "consult in a meaningful way with our respective offices," most of them had "not been approached by your company [Google] to discuss any of these issues in detail." They also asked Google if it would be willing to demonstrate Glass for them, and allow officials to test the device themselves.

Glass has so far been released in a limited trial in the U.S., and Google has given no specific date by which it will be available to the public, or in other countries.

"It’s very early days and we are thinking very carefully about how we design Glass because new technology always raises new issues," a Google spokesman told The Huffington Post in an emailed statement. "Our Glass Explorer program, which reaches people from all walks of life, will ensure that our users become active participants in shaping the future of this technology -- and we're excited to hear the feedback."

The June 19 letter follows another sent to Google in May by members of Congress, who also asked Google to address privacy concerns raised by Glass. Google was asked to reply to their questions by June 14, but the eight representatives who queried the company have not yet released Google's reply.


Google employees have previously noted that Glass wearers' "social contract" with other people around them should help allay some privacy concerns and keep bad behavior in check.

"If I'm recording you, I have to stare at you -- as a human being. And when someone is staring at you, you have to notice," Google engineer Charles Mendis said during a panel discussion last month, according to The Verge. "If you walk into a restroom and someone's just looking at you -- I don't know about you but I'm getting the hell out of there.
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Re: Speculations on time starting back up/google glass

Postby brekin » Tue Apr 15, 2014 1:46 pm

Rumblings from the techno-class war.

(CNN) -- Glass, Google's high-profile entry into the world of wearable tech, may help launch a revolution if it's released later this year as expected. But test models already on the street have begun playing a more unlikely role -- as symbols in a simmering fight over Silicon Valley's impact on the city of San Francisco.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/14/tech/mobi ... ?hpt=hp_c3

It's a local story, but one with ramifications everywhere as Google on Tuesday made the connected headsets available to the public for the first time in a one-day sale.

While our smartphones drop easily into pockets and tablets get zipped up in cases or backpacks, wearables such as Glass are, quite literally, in your face all the time.
The $1,500 device, which displays Web content on a tiny screen, signals its wearer as a likely member of an affluent tech elite. And Glass also can discreetly shoot photos or video, which some people view as invasive.
Woman claims attack due to Google Glass


That's caused unease for some folks and, in some cases has led to arguments, altercations and even attacks against people wearing the technology.

Kyle Russell, a reporter for Business Insider, wrote Sunday that he was walking home after covering a protest march against a Google employee who reportedly had bought a property and then evicted its tenants.
He was wearing, but not using, the eyewear "when a person put their hand on my face and yelled, 'Glass!' In an instant, the person was sprinting away, Google Glass in hand."
Russell says he ran after the woman, who then "pivoted, shifting their weight to put all of their momentum into an overhand swing. The Google Glass smashed into the ground, and they ran in another direction."


Tension city

In the column, Russell said he thinks the protest and attack Friday were linked, though he does not think the woman who did it was at the march.

"My love for gadgets makes me look and sound like one of the people whom residents of the city have come to feel oppressed by," he wrote.
"The individual who smashed my Google Glass on Friday -- because of political beliefs or a personal impact that has been made by the tech industry -- felt that it was appropriate to destroy my personal property in protest against what I seemed to stand for, based on my appearance; never mind the irony in choosing to assault someone based on their appearance as a way to preserve San Francisco's culture," he wrote.

On Monday, a Google spokesman condemned the attack.
"Targeting anyone for a crime because of what they wear is wrong," the spokesman said in a statement. "We have reached out to the person to see what we can do to help."

In recent months, tensions have run high in San Francisco over the perceived role that tech-industry giants have had on the city. Protesters complain that an influx of highly paid tech workers is driving up rents, forcing out longtime residents and robbing the city of its famously eccentric character.Most of the anti-tech fervor has focused on big-name companies such as Google and Twitter and the private bus systems that ferry their employees from the city to various corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley.

But individual employees are increasingly being targeted, too.

Just last week, protesters picketed in front of the private home of Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg and now a partner with Google Ventures. The protesters, who posted signs calling Rose a "parasite," claimed his group, which helps Google decide which startups to invest money in, has helped to inflate prices in the city.
Friday's march targeted Jack Halperin, an attorney for Google, who protesters say bought a building, where he intends to live, and evicted tenants who had been renting there.

Glass as a flashpoint

But while the tensions over housing in San Francisco have been bubbling for some time, it's relatively new for Glass to be targeted, either over privacy concerns or as a presumed symbol of the tech industry as a whole.

In late February, a woman says she was attacked at a bar on San Francisco's famous Haight Street after fellow patrons began heckling her and trying to rip Glass off of her face.
In a video Sarah Slocum shared with KRON-TV, a woman can be heard saying "You're killing the city" while approaching Slocum and apparently trying to rip the headset off of her face.
Another man is shown similarly trying to grab the device. Slocum said the man eventually took the headset and ran out of the bar with it. She was able to retrieve her Glass but says her purse and phone were stolen.

Google is clearly cognizant of the concerns some people have about Glass and has acted to encourage "Explorers" -- people who have been publicly field-testing the devices since early last year -- not to behave in ways that stoke anti-Glass sentiment.

In February, the company issued a list of tips for Explorers that included not being "creepy or rude (aka a 'Glasshole')." Other advice included always asking permission before taking a photo or shooting a video of someone, and being careful not to "Glass out," or just sit idly with the device on when others are around. It's hard to know whether the San Francisco attacks were just isolated incidents or whether others might be targeted similarly. One suspects that when the digital headsets become widely available, presumably later this year, people will become more accustomed to seeing them.
Slocum, the woman attacked in the San Francisco bar, hopes potential users won't be discouraged.
"I hope this incident doesn't deter people from wearing Google Glass, because 95% of the time, my experience is 180 degrees different," she told KRON. "Most people are just excited, curious. I usually end up demonstrating them, showing them to people, letting them try them on."
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Re: Speculations on time starting back up/google glass

Postby brekin » Tue Apr 15, 2014 1:54 pm

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Would you want Google Glass in class?
By Emanuella Grinberg, CNN
updated 1:35 PM EST, Tue February 11, 2014

(CNN) -- When high schoolers tour the world's largest nuclear research facility from their desks, or teachers have a chance to see the classroom through students' eyes, that's the power of Google Glass.
But even as Google's much buzzed-about wearable computer makes its way into the hands of technophiles, law enforcement and firefighters, it might be a while before it comes to a school near you.


Slowly, Google Glass is starting to turn up in schools. A handful of educators are beta testers in Google's Glass Explorer Program.
They're capturing videos and images of classroom activities through a small camera built into Glass' frame, and sharing them online. They use Glass to teach lessons from their perspective to share with others, or for their own reference. They're propping the glasses on students, and using the footage and images from young people to understand what they see and how they learn.

Even with limited applications and functionality in these early versions of Google Glass, some teachers and technology enthusiasts see huge potential.
"The possibilities are endless as more applications are developed for the device and as Glass gets into the hands of more teachers and students," said Kathy Schrock, a former librarian and technology consultant who serves on the board of International Society for Technology in Education."Having a single pair of Google Glass in the classroom reminds me of the days of the one-computer classroom. Everyone had to wait for a turn to use the device," Schrock, a Google Certified Teacher, said in an e-mail. "I think once we see a K-12 school pilot with a classroom set of Glass, there will be many more practical and creative uses showcased."


The virtual field trip is often touted as a use for Glass, and there are apps in development expected to display information about locations the Glass wearer sees.

Google sent online educator Andrew Vanden Heuvel to Switzerland in 2013 so he could lead students on a virtual tour of the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research known as CERN. Through a Google+ hangout, students from South Christian High School in Michigan watched Vanden Heuvel walk through the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, taking their questions and pointing out features.
Even more common, educators broadcast from inside the classroom, leading science labs, group discussions or even performing surgery for remote audiences. They show it in real time through Google+ hangouts and as videos shared later through YouTube, personal blogs and other forms of social media.

After his field trip, Vanden Heuvel continued using Glass by making a series of instructional science and math videos called STEMBites. When a New Jersey high school student had to miss school for medical reasons, chemistry teacher Marc Seigel asked the student's friend to wear Glass during science labs and broadcast them to her in a Google+ hangout. An online group for Glass Explorers in Education lets users share similar stories and pose questions to the group of 612 members.But Google Glass in every classroom could be a long way off. There's a long list of reasons why the most intriguing device in tech just isn't ready for school: Glass is expected to be more widely available toward the end of 2014, but the $1,500 price tag is a significant barrier for schools and teachers. So far, there's no educational discount, teachers said, and Google hasn't announced plans to partner with educational institutions. Its short battery life needs to be resolved before broader implementation is possible, teachers said, and Glass is mired in privacy concerns, especially when children are involved.

"To me, the greatest value of Glass so far isn't what it's able to do, but the conversation being had nationally about how we interact with technology and how we want it to be part of society," said Vanden Heuvel, who teaches online math and science classes.Vanden Heuvel views Glass as another tool in his arsenal, but it's "not necessarily the best for every situation," he said.
"I think the $1,500 would be better spent on three Chromebooks," he said.


Still, early adopters in education are looking for ways to make it work. Margaret Powers, lower school technology coordinator at the Episcopal Academy in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, has been documenting her experiences using Glass in class on on her blog, 365 Days of Glass. She saw potential in Glass as a tool to capture moments of discovery and learning through her students' eyes, in line with the Reggio Emilia philosophy she embraces as an educator.
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Since April 2013, she's used Glass to document the day's activities and post video highlights online. Glass gives her the benefit of doing it hands-free, so she can maintain eye contact and interact with students while gathering information, she said.Periodically, she puts together video clips around specific topics, like teaching students about coding, as presentations for parents. She lets students use the device to document their experience making Native crafts or playing in the snow to share with partner classrooms around the country.

Among its greatest benefits so far? Powers said she can finally see the classroom through the eyes of her students, who range from pre-K to second grade. It shows which details catch their attention, and sometimes reveals simple problems, like when Powers realized she was posting some information too high for her young students to see."It has been really interesting to try it because their perspective is so unique and different from ours, which is why I think (Glass) has a lot of potential with these age ranges," she said. "To get just a few moments to see how they learn to do a math problem, or to get a sense of their vantage point is so great for teachers."

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Re: Speculations on time starting back up/google glass

Postby justdrew » Wed Apr 16, 2014 12:42 am

AS IF they can be used to "see how they learn to do a math problem"

they? They learn the same way the teacher does, it's not a fucking mystery.

DO a math problem?!?

Maybe start calling it "answering a math question" instead? Wow givemeagrantalready :roll:
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Re: Speculations on time starting back up/google glass

Postby DrEvil » Wed Apr 16, 2014 2:16 pm

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Can't say I'm too worried about the same old getting a new form factor.
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