Would u wear a pair of google glasses just to be able to take pictures?

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A lot of things that were considered science fiction when I was young are now w/ us today.

http://photorumors.com/2013/05/19/olympus-patents-glasses-with-camera-and-display/

This Olympus patent just points to things that may one day happen or it may not. I don't think I would ever wear a pair of google like glasses to start w/, but that is just me. Looks like a sort of heads up like display on the glasses electronically transmitted from the camera.

Or on the other hand, the already existing camera in the google glasses.. Time will only make it better.

Either is not what i am interested in, but I was wondering what others felt about it.

Gary
 
I would not use the google glasses.

Prediction: we will now see the first homicides of street photographers, as people are driven into paranoid madness (every creepy guy with glasses is taking my photograph!) and lash out at the first recognizable target - i.e. the one person in sight who is honest about what they are doing.

Randy
 
Resistance is futile - you will be assimilated

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Segway was supposed to be the most revolutionary product in decades, but while it was technologically a leap, it made the person riding it look like a complete douche bag. Similarly while google glass is a leap in technology, it also makes the person wearing it look like a complete wanker.

google glass is a failure before it even hit the market, i wouldn't worry about it.
 
It's not for me, although I can see maybe it being for the more shy street photographers.

If Glass catches on, and it may, then I expect to see a rise in minor violence. People are careless enough at the best of times, in terms of not looking where they are going, a heads up display is going to make matters a lot worse.

Glass I think is like tablets, they certainly have their uses, but most people will just use it for the mundane, trivial and vapid purposes they use tablets for.
 
ruby.monkey said:
Difference is that the Segway doesn't immediately make everyone around you paranoid about being filmed on the sly - by someone who looks like a complete wanker.
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Unless and until google glass becomes a fashionable thing, its not going to be commonly used. People who will use it, would have to deal with the risk of getting robbed, snatching sunglasses is much easy, and treated badly by others.

This product is doomed before it even hit the shelves.

Most people are scared to carry a camera with them on the street, it would take a brave person to go around with google glass.


The only use for this product is in work areas, parents with small children in their own homes and pet photographers.
 
Just sitting here wondering how many people said similar things when cameras started appearing in cell phones...
 
Wear google glass and you're advertising to every street thief and junkie to rob you, you're also going to attract every hater out there looking to pick on some show off with his google glass.
 
Sadly the accident aspects are probably the biggest issue...

It is bad enough w/ people talking on the phone while crossing a street not even paying attention to what is going on around them, let alone trying to text while driving. In the last 4 months, I have seen at least two cases of passing someone driving 50mph in the center lane of the highway that looked like he was thumb typing.

Google glass like devices are going to make even worse I suspect.

Even though this is not for me, given human nature, if this catches on, this aspect of it makes me hope it does not.

Gary
 
one90guy said:
No, but I really do not what they are. I am not much into new is better.

David
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I think in computing these days, better and newer seem to be considered the same thing. I say that as a computer/technology enthusiast.

It's amazing the trivial and pointless uses that we are putting incredible technology into.
 
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