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.
> 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)
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
[+] [-] dizzystar|13 years ago|reply
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.
[+] [-] ryanhuff|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] zalew|13 years ago|reply
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.
[+] [-] Nemisis7654|13 years ago|reply
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...
[+] [-] 16s|13 years ago|reply
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.
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[+] [-] pshin45|13 years ago|reply
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...
[+] [-] jacquesm|13 years ago|reply
Qualified investment advice on an internet forum, great, wait right here while I put my pension on the line to follow your directions.
[+] [-] anigbrowl|13 years ago|reply
what
[+] [-] DigitalSea|13 years ago|reply
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.
[+] [-] roel_v|13 years ago|reply
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.
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[+] [-] JDDunn9|13 years ago|reply
On a sidenote, the porn industry originally chose HD-DVD, not Blu-ray.
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