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Re: Datecasting

This was addressed in the short film called Sight:

It was really well done for a small budget.

Wow, it's almost unnerving how plausible this video is.

Wow. I didn't know what to expect, but was a little blown away by this. Watching this I experienced both an attraction and revulsion to the use of integration of technology into vision. This deep integration of vision computer interface pushes the characters deep into the uncanny valley, to the point of no longer appearing to be human, but something other than human, something different.

I love it, thanks for sharing. I especially enjoyed the real life fruit ninja part, if technology can be used to make mundane tasks more exciting I'm all for it.

I liked the dig on the perversion of gamification here.

"Achievements" have become very popular in games -- you might have fully complete a game level, but there's a bonus if you use a specific weapon or not kill people or not do something odd while doing so. So sometimes people spend inordinate amount of time in games that they've already completed, doing something over and over again to gain a perfect "score".

Here he cuts the cucumber imperfectly, not getting the perfect score and so he discards it. The date is also heavily scored, and the augmented reality wall seems to have plenty of other perfect achievements. He longer cares as much about the end result, but just about the achievement badge (perhaps to be flaunted to others).

Wow. That's really awesome for a short short. Very well done, feels like a possible and plausible future scenario.

Great video, I was totally immersed for the 7 minutes it ran for. Very engaging and love the visuals.

Crimecam made me laugh, hehe. The uses are potentially endless:

5) Procrastination monitor: Someone is actively monitoring you, making sure that you do what you're supposed to do. Actually, this would be even creepier if it were your corporate control-freak boss who ordained it.

6) Voyeurist's refuge: Pay someone with social skills far more developed than yours, have him go out and pick up a woman while you sit back in our couch and watch the spectacle unfold. Not sure how many would consent to a partner wearing glasses while having sex, though.

Actually, the more I think about this the creepier the potential scenarios seem to be. And let's not get started on how unfortunate it would be if your pair got struck with a case of malware. But the techie inside me still thinks it's way cool.

6) See movie Gamer.

>>6) Voyeurist's refuge: Pay someone with social skills far more developed than yours, have him go out and pick up a woman while you sit back in our couch and watch the spectacle unfold. Not sure how many would consent to a partner wearing glasses while having sex, though.

pornstars

I'm guessing a lot of guys would be delighted about hiring a female pornstar to try and seduce a woman they have a thing for.

As awful as a lot of that movie was, it actually went to some interesting places with that technology.

Re 5: Have you ever used oDesk's Team Room?

Given the high amount of live sex available over cam right now, I think the voyeur idea is almost certainly going to happen.

It seems as more and more communication happens through channels available to all, and communication is no longer restricted to a few powerful channels (the media, the state, the church), we are starting to become more and more aware of the huge chasm that has always existed between what has been projected by society as "the norm" and people's actual willingness to act with a large deviation from the norm.

The malware in your personal brain extender scenario is pretty juicy. Hope some people write some crazy sci fi stories with that idea.

Or fixcast? Have a mechanic walk you through fixing your car, a plumber walk you through fixing your sink.

Others:

- Code tutorials

- Remote business consultants advising you on handling various business problems

- College students (or anyone with specific domain knowledge really) could dial into a web based market for advice/mentoring, and charge by the minute. A really cool way to leverage your domain knowledge and get paid in your free time. It could be reputation based, tracked on how useful your advice was for people in the past.

The whole remote help/advice area could be HUUUGE.

Look at what businesses currently spend on consultants now.

Imagine anyone can get a consultant/advisor/mentor/subject matter expert, for any topic (DIY, personal life- e.g. dealing with depression, health issues- remote doctor in India, virtual assistant in your ear, fitness trainer, business coach), at at a fraction of the cost of what these guys charge today.

You could get mentored for any topic under the sun - would you like an expert violin prodigy teach your child to play the violin from Eastern Europe really cheap? What about a Russian chess master teaching you the game? Or a hangout with a poker celebrity telling you how to improve your mastery of poker? Dancing? Painting? Legal advice? Speaking with a native French speaker to learn the language? Chatting with Peter Norvig about AI?

The possibilities are endless. Getting expert advice used to be constrained by location, but if Google Glass becomes widespread, not anymore.

> - College students (or anyone with specific domain knowledge really) could dial into a web based market for advice/mentoring, and charge by the minute.

I think there is a Stack Overflow for hardware hacking in there: " I burned trough 4 capacitors already, what am I doing wrong? ... "

Also, say the mechanic is watching what you see on his computer, he could point to parts of his screen with the mouse and it would highlight it in your screen so he can actually point to certain places, etc.

Surgery?

Perhaps emergency surgery actually? Or it not at least CPR help, or a tracheomtoy?

This could save millions of dollars on construction sites. It would give architects and engineers the next best thing to being able to teleport around a construction site. With the right software and organization, any foreman at a building site could get nearly instantaneous clarification.

Then again, maybe it would make people mentally lazy and unable to plan, like smartphones did with meeting up in town.

From what I've seen of the AEC industry, I doubt we'll actually see any real changes in the next decade or two. :(

However, I do see this being super useful for navigating racks and racks of servers to kick one over if it needs thunking.

I think one of the better uses of this camera will be in law enforcement. Not only can the glass record everything that happens, cops can use it as a tool to aid in real-time communication, a win for civil liberties groups as well as cops. Ensuring that the video evidence can't be tampered with or deleted is critical.

Actually, last night, I spotted some BART cops with glasses that had a little camera on the side. Pretty sure that they didn't have screens but it brought a smile to my face. Definitely a step in the right direction.

Why do I get the feeling that the POV porno genre will see a surge in numbers? :)

5) Cheatcam: AI tells you what chess move, poker play, etc to make, in real time.

Pretty sure casinos will ban these about... 5 seconds after they become generally available.

Perhaps they are already preemptively banned.

I wonder what they'll do about implants.

Only permitted for showgirls.

They are, at least in Atlantic City and Vegas. I believe the wording of the regulation is something like "electronic devices," so they can ban even a digital watch (or Pebble, heh) that they don't like.

We could play AI augmented chess?

I could see a version of this product being a hit with journalists:

* Get instant fact-checks during an interview.

* Record interviews and investigative video safely to the cloud so no one can steal your footage.

* Capture always-on footage that doesn't require camera set up time so you never miss a shot.

* Recall notes and questions to ask without breaking eye contact.

* Instantly pull up details on a politician and voting record by saying names and bill numbers or by having a junior reporter dig up background details remotely.

* Look for related news headlines in real-time so you do not miss important background and you do cover ignored aspects of the story.

As an alternative to 4): 4.A) Law-cast - every law enforcement officer should be required to wear this. A real-time transcript of all events should be captured.

This would have a profound impact on society.

>"Lifecast" -- our team of professionals reviews a total stream of your life and gives you advice on everything.

This is a brilliant idea. However, I bet many people who would otherwise find it attractive would end up not using it because of the implications for personal privacy. Whoever is able to solve the privacy issues (real-time anonymization for footage? AI prescreening with a human expert team only seeing select things?) stands a good chance of getting rich.

There's a hacker character on Ghost in the Shell known as The Laughing Man.[1] One of his skills is being able to hack cybernetic eyes in real-time to superimpose an avatar on his face, to conceal his identity.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_Man_(Ghost_in_the_Shel...

I think the people concerned about 'always on' recording are missing the fact that one could just put a piece of masking tape over the camera.

What about sound? Location tracking?

It would be safe to assume that a lot more than just visual information is captured and recorded I think.

Perhaps Glass will be the killer app for CyanogenMod [1], then.

[1] http://www.cyanogenmod.org/

The concern isn't that you are generating too much video -- you can always turn it off.

The concern is that everyone else all around you is generating too much information about everything they see. Think "The Dark Knight," the scene where Batman uses a whole bunch of passive cellphones to map out the city and the people in it. The NSA is already spending enormous amounts of money building giant data warehouses, and there have been some startlingly accurate demos of live facial recognition software. It's really not that farfetched, technologically.

>> 1) "Datecast" -- get real-time advice and tips while on a date

This instantly makes me think of Short Circuit 2!

> There's no shortage of sci-fi stories dealing with this sort of always-on recording. "Strange Days", "Black Mirror (#3)".

Also "A Deepness in the Sky", by Vinge. Early on one of the characters says to another something like "hey, check out the last 300 seconds of my POV".

Lifecast? I thought it would be managed automatically by a program.