I really want to like the concept of Glass, but I can't shake the idea that it is pointing in the wrong direction. First Utopia and now Utopian Porn. There are so many things that are revolutionary that we can talk about that Glass will allow.
Imagine: There is an emergency operation. Patient is laying at the table and the surgeon could really use a specialist's help pronto. What better views can we imagine than the actual eyes of the surgeon? (Saving Lives)
There is so much more, but as teaching aid, crime witness aid for police, and so many other non-big-brother things could be done with it that pushes our world into a much better place.
Because absolutely everything has to be framed as a dichotomy these days. Drama and conflict are, apparently, the only way to hold the reader's interest.
I wouldn't consider a private recording a "Big Brother" thing. It's when recording is mandated and that you have no choice in sharing it, that it becomes "Big Brother"-ish.
Personally, I could see a passive recording feature (say, the last five minutes) as useful in this way. But then we're talking battery life, and I haven't read enough to know about such things for Google Glass.
"crime witness aid for police" would probably be beneficial by itself, if it is possible to limit the privacy and surveillance concerns. So essentially the situation, where a witness starts to film a crime and then gives this video to the police. Or the police could be required to document everything they do (by taking a full video of each shift).
On the other hand, the surveillance potential is of course scary. And once Google glass is out, I really do not know how to limit the impact.
> Or the police could be required to document everything they do (by taking a full video of each shift).
These tools already exist, and do great - except when they don't. Strangely, they tend to "not work" exactly when the officer is suspected/accused of overstepping the bounds of their authority or the law.
The classic example is the 18 minute silence on the Nixon tapes [1].
> Imagine: There is an emergency operation. Patient is laying at the table and the surgeon could really use a specialist's help pronto. What better views can we imagine than the actual eyes of the surgeon? (Saving Lives)
They take technology and use it to satisfy immature juvenile urges and then say, oh, wow, this is so cool. Give them an iphone and they'll write an app showing boobs that jiggle when you shake the iphone.
They waste technology and the power it takes to run it, and they just don't get it. There's a place for that sort of content and those types of apps (bachelor parties, etc), but it's far too prominent today. I hope that changes soon.
The thing is, I feel like hospitals are hesitant to embrace new technology that isn't proven. Glass definitely fits that category. Like 16s said above, it's the First App Generation. This will get it in the hands of users. And from there, I think we will begin to see the really good, game changing uses.
Besides, like the article says, it always seems to be that the porn industry is one of the first to innovate. And that's because it's such a crowded space. Here's an interesting article about it http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/23/porn.technology/index...
Common misconception: Google Glass does not augment your entire field of view, as this article implies. It only occupies the top right corner of it, and looking there for more than a few seconds at a time hurts your eyes. So no, Glass isn't going to change porn like this at all.
I get they're hinting at using Google Glass for filming porn, but lets face it, no pair of glasses will ever produce high definition video as good as an actual camera. Maybe for amateur porn, but I'm sure amateur porn is probably being shot on mobile phones at the moment anyway. I'd take a Canon 7D for filming video over any pair of glasses any day of the week. Would a pair of glasses like Google Glass even have the capability to shoot long duration high definition video? Battery life, bandwidth and storage would be massive issues to overcome, you've seen what HD recording does to a mobile phone battery.
Google Glass will change how we access content on the go. The ability to look at a sign in another language and have it translated into your native language, now that's the kind of change I could get behind.
The one thing I worry about advances like Google Glass changing is child pornography. I believe devices like Google Glass will make it easier for creeps to secretly film children in shopping centres and parks, the beach or wherever. As someone who is planning on having children soon, that thought scares me.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding Google Glass myself, but doesn't the camera inside Glass capture a rather wide field of view? The Google Glass videos show that you can share your point of view with other people. The article is talking about filming this point of view, not to augment the porn actor/actress's experience during production.
You're not misunderstanding. The field of view I am referring to is for viewing not recording, I should have probably made that more clear. Of course some will try and view porn on Google Glass, heck if you could view porn on a calculator I'm sure some people would try. As for filming I list a few questions in regards to quality, space and bandwidth. Will it seriously be possible to record a high definition long-duration POV porn movie on Google Glass? It doesn't sound plausible to me, not in high definition anyway.
"no pair of glasses will ever produce high definition video as good as an actual camera"
If there is one thing the last 20 years should have taught us, it's that people who say 'x will never be as good as y' are, in the medium to long term, almost always fabulously wrong.
Not true. I can think of many cases where they're wrong, but I can also think of many where they're right. With cameras and suchlike you're running limitations of physics, as far as image acquisition is concerned; the other issue is that there's a huge body of knowledge on how to move a camera properly, whereas a head-mounted camera is kind of painful to watch because you don't have the kinetic cues to go with it, and every little twitch or movement of the head becomes a distraction for the viewer who has to filter out the irrelevant movements in their visual cortex. Look at all those videos on youtube where people don't know how to hold a camcorder and it is just waving all over the place even when they're aiming it at a static object in front of them.
The musical instrument world is abuzz with new analog synthesizers right now, because over the last couple of years several major manufacturers have just gone back to manufacturing it because SMT and FPGA/FPAAs have made it affordable to do so again. They're still making DSP synths because DSP still offers many advaantages (not as noisy, fewer limits on polyphony, vastly cheaper at scale), but analog synths are huge again because they simply sound more interesting to most musicians than their digital equivalents. I'm about to sell one of my DSP boxes for this very reason, in fact.
Considering Google Glass utilises cloud storage on presumably some kind of LTE plan I don't see high quality blu-ray or even DVD ready video recording quality anytime soon from these things, it's just not plausible high quality video can be captured and streamed via any network as fast as it is being captured (unless Glass has on-board high storage, but I haven't heard of any).
You are somewhat right in that people have said "x will never be as good as y" and were proven wrong, but that isn't always the case. In this instance I don't see Google Glass replacing any day-to-day camera. Mobile phone camera technology is a good example, mobile phone cameras have become a lot better in the quality of; video, imagery, lenses and sensors they have, but due to constraints such as; battery life, storage capacity and smaller form factor will never be good for more than happy snaps. And while lots of people are content with happy snap quality, to say that Google Glass in the article will ever be of high enough quality to record palatable professional pornography is a misguided and incorrect statement.
Maybe not child pornography in that instance, but I associate any sexually motivated action involving children (secretly filming them for devious purposes) to be somewhat of a sick act nonetheless whatever you want to call it. We don't need to get into specifics here for it to be considered a warranted worry, we all know there are going to be stories of people using devices like Google Glass for nefarious purposes.
That's along the lines of what I was thinking. Google glass will change porn in the same way that camera phones changed photography. It'll be more accessible to amateurs maybe, but professionals will probably not use this tech considerably.
Whether the Oculus Rift or Google Glass will change porn more is anybody's guess, but I think we can all agree that this is terrible news for the sex robot industry. [1]
If you own shares in any sex robot manufacturers, you'd be wise to short/sell them immediately.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 88.5 ms ] threadImagine: There is an emergency operation. Patient is laying at the table and the surgeon could really use a specialist's help pronto. What better views can we imagine than the actual eyes of the surgeon? (Saving Lives)
There is so much more, but as teaching aid, crime witness aid for police, and so many other non-big-brother things could be done with it that pushes our world into a much better place.
Personally, I could see a passive recording feature (say, the last five minutes) as useful in this way. But then we're talking battery life, and I haven't read enough to know about such things for Google Glass.
On the other hand, the surveillance potential is of course scary. And once Google glass is out, I really do not know how to limit the impact.
These tools already exist, and do great - except when they don't. Strangely, they tend to "not work" exactly when the officer is suspected/accused of overstepping the bounds of their authority or the law.
The classic example is the 18 minute silence on the Nixon tapes [1].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_White_House_tapes
BMW introduced a kind of similar concept years ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P... it's actually an augumented instruction set, but I guess it could as well be used for human consultation when needed.
They take technology and use it to satisfy immature juvenile urges and then say, oh, wow, this is so cool. Give them an iphone and they'll write an app showing boobs that jiggle when you shake the iphone.
They waste technology and the power it takes to run it, and they just don't get it. There's a place for that sort of content and those types of apps (bachelor parties, etc), but it's far too prominent today. I hope that changes soon.
Besides, like the article says, it always seems to be that the porn industry is one of the first to innovate. And that's because it's such a crowded space. Here's an interesting article about it http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/23/porn.technology/index...
in terms of Glass as a tiny camera, that technology already exists and has for a long time.
Google Glass will change how we access content on the go. The ability to look at a sign in another language and have it translated into your native language, now that's the kind of change I could get behind.
The one thing I worry about advances like Google Glass changing is child pornography. I believe devices like Google Glass will make it easier for creeps to secretly film children in shopping centres and parks, the beach or wherever. As someone who is planning on having children soon, that thought scares me.
If there is one thing the last 20 years should have taught us, it's that people who say 'x will never be as good as y' are, in the medium to long term, almost always fabulously wrong.
The musical instrument world is abuzz with new analog synthesizers right now, because over the last couple of years several major manufacturers have just gone back to manufacturing it because SMT and FPGA/FPAAs have made it affordable to do so again. They're still making DSP synths because DSP still offers many advaantages (not as noisy, fewer limits on polyphony, vastly cheaper at scale), but analog synths are huge again because they simply sound more interesting to most musicians than their digital equivalents. I'm about to sell one of my DSP boxes for this very reason, in fact.
You are somewhat right in that people have said "x will never be as good as y" and were proven wrong, but that isn't always the case. In this instance I don't see Google Glass replacing any day-to-day camera. Mobile phone camera technology is a good example, mobile phone cameras have become a lot better in the quality of; video, imagery, lenses and sensors they have, but due to constraints such as; battery life, storage capacity and smaller form factor will never be good for more than happy snaps. And while lots of people are content with happy snap quality, to say that Google Glass in the article will ever be of high enough quality to record palatable professional pornography is a misguided and incorrect statement.
On a sidenote, the porn industry originally chose HD-DVD, not Blu-ray.
If you own shares in any sex robot manufacturers, you'd be wise to short/sell them immediately.
[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/sex-robots-meet-roxxxy-robot-comes-sk...
Qualified investment advice on an internet forum, great, wait right here while I put my pension on the line to follow your directions.
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