Google Shows Off Augmented Reality Glasses

We Are The Borg. You Will Be Assimilated...

 

Resistance is futile.

 

But wait,,

resistance isn't futile?

- Hugh

 

I'd do her!

 

She looks really happy with the images of her co-worker's penis that are scrolling by on her display.

 

...... and they thought texting on your phone and driving was bad!


that was only the beginning of the horrors to come!

But seriously, I wear glasses and as a wearer of glasses I would never let those ghastly looking things ever touch my face. also to me, these just seem like another thing to let technology control our lives. no, i don't like it, no sir, not at all.

 

Can the glasses detect reptilian humaniods???

 

Doesn't look that attractive.

Typing of which neither do those blue tooths with the half of the users face melting from being radiated to death.

So I imagine that half her face will be twitching in no time if she keeps that thing on.

 

NPR posted this article weeks ago, and the comments at the bottom of the article were more in line with that I would expect from hipforumers lol, while the comments here are relatively benign considering the hatred I've seen directed towards google on HF in previous threads.

Come on guys...no one is paranoid this is going to be used in a very 1984-esque manner? No one is afraid this will be ten times worse than texting and driving? No one thinks google is trying to take over the entire HUMAN BRAIN?

Because thats what npr readers thought. I figured someone here would be jumping all over that line of thinking by now.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLoVtbKL1fk"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLoVtbKL1fk

 

It's interesting they call it 'augmented' reality, in a McLuhanist sense that your senses are being extended to MORE reality. So rather than seeing your immediate environment you are in continuous contact with the whole world. It's almost like those 2012 theories where we all realize we are one and transcend individual boundaries, only via e-glasses connections. Maybe THIS is what the Mayans had in mind. The Borg image is actually very appropriate.

Of course like you say, this technology is subject to propaganda, but we already get that through the media, tv, internet and just about everything else. It's not reality that is being augmented but the opportunity to advertise more, sell more and exploit more.

 

contact with the whole world? maybe, if you could access cameras.
this shit is going to be so awesomeee! it recognizes objects and buildings and places, give you real time information on screen. gps pretty much like a video phone. phones can get augmented reality, ive seen it.it uses the camera and uses gps.

 

shhh they can hear you!

 

An interesting point, although the opposite is likely too. People become more disconnected from one another as they start living more and more of their lives in cyberspace and virtual reality.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3TAOYXT840"]Google Glasses: A New Way to Hurt Yourself (parody of Google's Project Glass) - YouTube

 

I've been thinking about that. We're probably already at that stage. It's possibly to live your day with almost zero apprehension of nature. You can get out of bed, eat your breakfast over your newspaper, play with your iPad on the train, work on your PC at the office from 9-5, then go home and spend the night in front of the TV.

For me it's a matter of where do you get your sensory information? Is if from nature (natural sounds, trees and buildings), or from someone else (written media, spoken words, TV, artificial sounds). When you're living in a man-made world you're extremely subject to manipulation and propaganda.