[QUOTE=Orkel;39695175]There's no such thing as "being ready", we just gotta take the plunge someday. I doubt that if we waited 20 years and then introduced this kind of tech, it would make people feel any more "ready" than if we introduce it now.[/QUOTE]
You're right about that. I guess what I was wondering is that, will people be actually comfortable with using this technology? Not from an ergonomics standpoint, but, will they feel comfortable with the new possibilities that this product brings? Like the huge possibility of people perving into others, taking pictures secretely. Pretty sure some will develop modifications to the software that disable any indication that the camera is running and make it as easy as posible to activate the camera. That's like one of the main reasons I can think from the top of my head people wouldn't feel comfortable with others (and themselves) using this device.
Would you be able to watch videos/listen to music with Glass? If so, will there be a headphone jack? I prize my smartphone on being able to listen to music.
[QUOTE=Nephilim;39700131]Would you be able to watch videos/listen to music with Glass? If so, will there be a headphone jack? I prize my smartphone on being able to listen to music.[/QUOTE]
I'd imagine they'd be all kinds of cool accesseries for something like this, including headphones. I think at one point in the video she did mention something about different versions or different frames you can reconnect, one might have headphones built in, in a really discreet way.
[QUOTE=Inspector Jones;39679972]Wait it has to be paired with a smartphone?!
Goddamnit, there goes all my hype. Extremely interested in glass, but I don't own a smartphone nor do I really need one.[/QUOTE]
how do you not have a fucking phone
[QUOTE=Inspector Jones;39679972]Wait it has to be paired with a smartphone?!
Goddamnit, there goes all my hype. Extremely interested in glass, but I don't own a smartphone nor do I really need one.[/QUOTE]
why have glass but not a smartphone
[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;39700304]how do you not have a fucking phone[/QUOTE]
I've been missing a mobile phone for about a year now, I get by using BTWiFi on my Nexus :v:
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Actually looking around for a new phone now, though.
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Having Glass without a smartphone would be utterly pointless though, aren't like half of the features dependant on an android device?
[QUOTE=Kopimi;39689783]this is hardly an augmentation its just an accessory
its like saying a digital watch is an augmentation[/QUOTE]
just so everybody's on the same page, the term 'cyborg' is considered a melding of man and machine to improve man. It's commonly accepted that wearing a watch or glasses is a very base form of cyborgism. Obviously things like pacemakers and skeletal enhancement/replacement (fake hips, joints, braces holding fractured bones, etc) are more advanced cyborgism, but the term has been re-routed in more recent years to "trans-humanism" in regards to things physically integrated with the body.
Glass definitely counts towards Cyborg enhancement, though I know most people here think "I didn't ask for this" when they hear the word "augmentation"- everything in Deus Ex is TH. If it's worn and considered part of your daily routine like glasses or a watch or a phone, and it improves some form or function you do, it becomes part of you in its function regardless of whether it retracts into your temples
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