Google Glasses & recursion
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Upchurch
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That's not really recursion. That's Google Glass taking a picture of itself.
You're probably thinking of a video feedback loop. Like when you point a video camera at the monitor the camera is hooked up to. You get a visual effect of endless monitors back into space.
Like this,
You're probably thinking of a video feedback loop. Like when you point a video camera at the monitor the camera is hooked up to. You get a visual effect of endless monitors back into space.
Like this,
sophia8
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But doesn't Google Glass try to identify everything it takes a picture of? So it's going to be identifying a picture of Google Glass taken by itself, looking at itself....
Maybe I shouldn't be reading so much Robert J Sawyer!
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Not that I've heard, no.
There was talk about facial recognition, but that was dropped.
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There is not going to be any recursion. The real Google Glasses are going to see a reflection of a pair of Google Glasses. The real glasses might even identify what they see.
and that would be it.
theprestige
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I don't even think it would be the glasses per se. Rather, the glasses would transmit the image to Google search, which would search for similar images and project search results on the wearer's display.
The result would be you seeing a message to the effect that you're probably looking at a pair of Google glasses, and here's some additional information about them.
How disappointing. Crashing the Internet sounds like far more fun.
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Wowbagger
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I got to try the Google Glass, today. I must say I was moderately impressed with the floating display effect.
It was mentioned that part of the reason why the Glass is disliked might be because it is not symmetrical. We recognize non-symmetry in faces as something to be disturbed about. And, according to that theory, if they made them symmetrical in some way, they could come to be more accepted.
Then another person mentioned that the bigger reason is that no one ones to see someone wearing those in a restroom.
It was mentioned that part of the reason why the Glass is disliked might be because it is not symmetrical. We recognize non-symmetry in faces as something to be disturbed about. And, according to that theory, if they made them symmetrical in some way, they could come to be more accepted.
Then another person mentioned that the bigger reason is that no one ones to see someone wearing those in a restroom.
Upchurch
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I've heard that it is near impossible to take a picture without someone realizing it with Glass. Is that true?
Of course, I assume it would be much easier to secretive if you are capturing video before you go into the restroom.
Wowbagger
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In it's current form, yes.
People will see the screen spot lit up on the non-wearer's side of the device. I don't think there's any way to hide that sorta thing. At least if you want to see the photos as you take them.
(There are also "shutter" noises it makes, and the verbal commands you have to give, but those sorts of things could potentially be disabled or circumvented, even if you need to hack the device to do it.)
Yeah, cameras hidden in glasses have existed for a long time. Though, you couldn't see the pictures you were taking while wearing them, before.
But, it still makes people nervous, I think, when one is seen wearing these Glass things.
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