How The First Google Glass Commercial Should Have Gone

I suspect that would just have set the bar too high. Unrealistic expectations are not good for devices in really early stages.

I think the presentation at Google IO was perfect: it was something obviously completely achievable now with the exact technology they had. And it was pretty cool.

While I agree with most comments that most of these are unrealistic and gives the impression the artist does not understand the technology. The football idea is actually pretty good, viable and not even too hard to build with current tools. That sounds exactly the kind of use case that should be better exploited with glass apps. Constantly streaming information when you don't want to be distracted by taking your phone off. A phone app to use in a stadium wouldn't be too useful. But on your glass it changes everything. There are many similar situations where there's opportunity for glass apps that didn't have too much appeal on the phone. Developers take note.

I completely disagree with the hand gestures. Just having users accept wearing Glass is enough of a challenge without insinuating that the UI will require you to look like you're doing panotomimes in public.

And this is coming from someone who is dying to buy Google Glass! (mainly for the hands-free camera feature)

The design by the OP is not bound by limitation in technologies. There is a gap between what is doable with current technology and what is conceivable with imagination.

This valve article has explained why a See-Through AR, like Glass, cannot render opaque color overlay. http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/why-you-wont-see-hard-...

I think this explicitly not what the vision of Google Glass is. This is sort of the greatest hits of Augmented Reality that have never really worked.

Integrating virtual objects into the environment of the wearer is far beyond what Google Glass will be able to do when it gets released.

This kind of AR is not yet a well solved problem for complex images with a static background, and it gets exponentially more difficult with an unpredictably dynamic background.

Not to mention that the display technology that gGlass uses only allows for displaying semi-transparent objects, as I understand it.

This is clearly more advanced than what Google is aiming for immediately, but is the direction that makes this technology exciting, and is what it should mature into once feasible.

What is really missing at the moment is a method of controlling the display. Waving your hands in front of the camera is not an attractive option to me, but there are other possibilities once the tech gets there that seem much more seamless:

* Controls on the glasses themselves - not much better than waving hands.

* Some other sort of control device you can hold, like an apple remote with more buttons - could be very flexible, but again ties up your hands.

* A wearable device like a watch or wrist-band - could be quite unintrusive and should be possible fairly quickly.

* Embedded sensors on the body or the fingertips - obviously a way out but these could give great control simply by tapping on the leg or arm. Even typing is conceivable.

* Subvocalisation, sensors near the throat or head that can pick up subvocalised or whispered commands - speaking is pretty slow for control commands, but could be great for dictating messages.

* Brain control, sensors that can pick up thought patterns - this seems futuristic, but some advanced tech can already move a cursor and even dictate some words using this. Shouldn't be hard to choose from a HUD menu if designed well.

Ok, maybe I got carried away, but I'm pretty excited by what this sort of tech will be like in 10 years, especially if we can use contacts instead of glasses.

I think it will be great for deaf / hearing impaired people. Just an arrow pointing in the direction of the sound / speech + some text indicating a best guess at what was said. Google's voice recognition is getting much better recently.

Exactly. It really is a shame that the true implications of augmented reality got lost in all the Google glass mockery. Forget the text message pop-ups and map overlays, that's all basically meaningless. Just a slightly easier to look at version of what's already on your phone.

But this kind of continuous melding of real life with video game graphics? A game-changer. Extrapolate it to everyone being able to see whatever they want to see, all the time, and things start to get pretty crazy pretty fast. Highly recommend Vernor Vinge's book Rainbows End for a full look at where this could take us a few years from now.

There is high tendency to present Project Glass as primarily augmented reality project. And that's ok, since AR (just the acronym alone) is getting a lot of PR.

But high potential for the first instances of it don't lie there though but in conveniently presented contextual information right in front of you.

I still don't like either speech or gesture control.

The art class demo would be even better if the glasses took a photo of the still life, applied a few artistic filters, and projected the line art to be traced onto the blank page.

As I said before, they should've integrated with something like Word Lens. Admittedly, I'm not sure how well the app works in practice (I don't have a supported phone), but from the videos it seems a great and very useful implementation of real AR.

The hand gesture in front of the camera looks like the TED presentation by Pranav Mistry on SixthSense technology http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/ (pics)

THIS Is How The First Google Glass Commercial Should Have Gone...

Just noticed the AD BLOCK on the McDonalds advert on the road!

The face recognition might really work in a near future and I can imagine people in a far future wondering how we did it in our era to remember names.

s/Should Have Went/Should Have Gone/

Maybe in 5 or 10 years yes.