Google releases a more comprehensive API for Google Glass that includes camera and sensor access. Re - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Imagine you’re traveling in a country whose language you don’t speak. You look up at a sign — say, a caution marker, or a list of directions. Oh, also, you’re wearing Google Glass. You say, “Okay Glass, translate this.” The words on the sign transform into your home language, so when you look through Glass, you can read them. That’s what the new Word Lens app for Google Glass does, and it’s kind of magical. Blobs of translated text appear on the wearer’s screen with perspective intact, the same background color, and a matched font. It looks as though the sign has been reprinted in your own language. [t]http://i1.wp.com/allthingsd.com/files/2013/11/Final-0000522.png[/t] [t]http://i2.wp.com/allthingsd.com/files/2013/11/wordlensforglass3.png[/t] The Word Lens Glass app works in real time, and it also accesses local storage. A dictionary of about 10,000 words in each chosen language are stored locally on the device, so users can get their translations even when they travel internationally without a data plan. That’s in contrast to Google’s own Google Goggles app, which requires a Web connection. The app was built with the new Glass Developer Kit, which was released as a sneak peek to developers today at a hackathon in San Francisco. Word Lens got early access along with four other apps: Allthecooks (hands-free recipes), Strava (it’s the first time the activity-tracking company has given live progress reports about how well its runners and cyclists are doing, out of concern that using a phone or headphones would be unsafe), Spellista by GLU (the first Glass game) and GolfSight by SkyDroid (it’s for golf).[/QUOTE] Okay, now there's a killer app if you travel. Holy shit, I want one even more now. But noooot quite enough for $1500. :v: Can't wait for Google to release the consumer-ready version, although there are still some things that need to be worked out. Like how do we, as a society, handle people with cameras mounted on their faces? I presume a hardware-controlled, un-disableable red LED type of thing for when the camera is on is a minimum. [editline]20th November 2013[/editline] Fuck, link: [URL="http://allthingsd.com/20131119/new-google-glass-apps-will-translate-the-world-from-your-eyes-and-other-tricks/"]Next Google Glass Tricks Include Translating the World From Your Eyes[/URL] :v:

Dude, You don't understand. It's amazing. At work today I was able to instantly translate infront of me of what a spanish speaking customer wrote. I knew what he needed without having to call an associate who spoke spanish. It's worth every penny, The cooking app is amazing also. For those judging how effective it is. I can go up to product boxes and have it translate even semi small text. It will zoom in (Digitally) to replace the text. And ontop of it also attempts to replicate the font and fill in the background like photoshop's content aware. [b]Edit:[/b] And yes, before someone quotes this post. I'm a glass explorer.

That is pretty handy.

This would have to be an essential to any person who travels in Non English speaking Countries frequently

By the way for those judging how effective it is. I can go up to product boxes and have it translate even semi small text. It will zoom in (Digitally) to replace the text. And ontop of it also attempts to replicate the font and fill in the background like photoshop's content aware.

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;42933112]This would have to be an essential to any person who travels in Non English speaking Countries frequently[/QUOTE] It doesn't just translate x->English, as well, so that basically applies to anyone who travels outside of their home language regions frequently, as long as they languages they're involving are supported by Word Lens.

does the translator actually work well or will it spit out nonsense sentences like most every other translator in the world

Man I am literally depressed that I won't be able to afford one.

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;42933137]It doesn't just translate x->English, as well, so that basically applies to anyone who travels outside of their home language regions frequently.[/QUOTE] Yeah when you open the glassware you just tap when it displays the camera and you can switch between numerous languages to translate it either way. [QUOTE=AlienFanatic;42933141]does the translator actually work well or will it spit out nonsense sentences like most every other translator in the world[/QUOTE] I have alot of native spanish speakers at my job, They said it all translated well.

[QUOTE=AlienFanatic;42933141]does the translator actually work well or will it spit out nonsense sentences like most every other translator in the world[/QUOTE] Word Lens is an Android and iPhone app as well, and it seems pretty highly rated on at least [URL="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.questvisual.wordlens"]Google Play[/URL]. Looks like it's been neglected on Android at least, a bit; it isn't compatible with either of my devices, an S3 on stock 4.1 or a Nexus 7 (2012) on stock 4.4.

My entire feeling about this can be summed up in the phrase "The future is now"

[QUOTE=frozensoda;42933146]Man I am literally depressed that I won't be able to afford one.[/QUOTE] The consumer versions should be significantly cheaper than $1500. Think higher-end smartphone pricing, to start, [I]probably[/I].

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;42933181]The consumer versions should be significantly cheaper than $1500. Think higher-end smartphone pricing, to start, [I]probably[/I].[/QUOTE] I have safelink wireless bro, it's not gonna happen for me for quite some time. Unless the factories around here start paying more than $9/hr, that is.

[QUOTE=frozensoda;42933193]I have safelink wireless bro, it's not gonna happen for me for quite some time. Unless the factories around here start paying more than $9/hr, that is.[/QUOTE] Point taken. Give it another five to six years, though, and it'll probably drop to almost trivial pricing for basic models and such.

I was thinking the other day how useful Glass could be for disabled people. If you're deaf, glass could display in text what people around you are saying or warn about loud noises. If software gets advanced enough it could help the blind as well, using the earbud it could describe their surroundings to them or read signs.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;42933233]I was thinking the other day how useful Glass could be for disabled people. If you're deaf, glass could display in text what people around you are saying or warn about loud noises.[/QUOTE] Holy shit, it'd be like TTY/Closed Captioning for life. That would be awesome for deaf people. :v: [B]Edit:[/B] A friend of mine has progressive dementia, and he wants to get Glass in order to write himself a program that's basically Evernote for his personal life. Like, remembering who people are and his to-do list. The navigation and alarm and calendar functions alone would be a godsend for him, never mind what a custom-built app would do.

[QUOTE]what a spanish speaking customer wrote. I knew what he needed without having to call an associate who spoke spanish.[/QUOTE] So we've broken the language barrier, making it so that anybody can communicate without knowing other languages? All of this easier communication can only make the world better.

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;42933081]I presume a hardware-controlled, un-disableable red LED type of thing for when the camera is on is a minimum.[/QUOTE] Oh come on, you live in the world with 7 billion other people. Do you really need to care when someone records you? On another note, the thing with 10,000 words in each language is absolutely amazing, as whenever I travel I don't have a data plan. Damn you Google Translate department for being so clever at stuff like this.

It's the Samco biochip, I tell ya! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTQuDIpT4Nk[/media] My decision to get a glass is now sealed.

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I love the technology, but I'd have to wait for them to become commonplace before I wore on in public.

Holy shit it's like some sort of futuristic device that can translate alien languages into your own.

[QUOTE=Killer900;42933535]Holy shit it's like some sort of futuristic device that can translate alien languages into your own.[/QUOTE] And then a mistranslation ends up causing a war. It'll be M.O.O. all over again.

Soon I'll be able to play Dota co-operatively.

If only Babelfish had invented this :v:

I really, really want one of these now.

now read an entire book without knowing the language it's originally written in and you have the world most universally useful tool even a rough translation is a very amazing thing for such a small device