• backpackn
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    2 years ago

    Headsets already feel outdated. They seem inconvenient, uncomfortable, and take you away from life instead of enhancing it. Whatever happened to google glass? I disliked that for many reasons but at least it wasn’t a headset.

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      2 years ago

      Google happened to it. Right when some of us started doing practical things with it. Still haven’t forgiven them for that.

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        2 years ago

        Can’t have a product potentially get past the early adopters phase can they.

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          2 years ago

          I still don’t think I should have told them I was working on a software prosthetic for it.

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              I was writing code for Google Glass that implemented facial recognition. A friend of mine suffered a TBI in an automobile wreck and developed partial facial prosopagnosia as a result. I was basically writing software that would recognize faces within 15 feet of the wearer and compare it to images of their contacts in their Google account, and would throw up an AR subtitle identifying the person on a match. Not too long after I filed the developer applications and outlined my project, the Glass project flatlined.