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Winky Google Glass APP - hacked into Google glass and enabled winking control

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The Hacker/Developer says: "It's a very different experience taking a picture of someone with Glass vs a phone or even a plain old camera. Looking directly at a person instead of through a viewfinder has a huge psychological difference."

If google glass becomes popular, I'll expect to hear this phrase more - "Please take your glasses off before we proceed.."

Well before long we will have integrated prescription glasses + Google Glass. So maybe it'll just be, "please turn off your glasses" :)

Google or someone on kickstarter should make a clip for google glass, so we can put it on and off in a matter of seconds. Don't want to carry a second prescription glass around

Google has said they're working on Glass hardware that'll clip onto regular prescription glasses.

Waiting for the first guy to create a "Glass jammer" that kills nearby Glasses. (Guess it would not be practically possible)

It would be possible consentually--Google could design in a protocol whereby, say, getting in range of a certain recognized Bluetooth class turns off recording features until you leave.

Apple has a patent on disabling cameras in a given location:

http://www.zdnet.com/apple-patent-could-remotely-disable-pro...

...and then we'd have a real reason to root. ;)

Wasn't obvious, but here's where the actual goodies are:

https://github.com/kaze0/winky

I wasn't aware that they were tracking eye movement (of any sort). This is incredibly cool, although the privacy implications could be disturbing.

A quick google search didn't reveal a list of all of the on-board sensors. If anyone knows where I can I find it, linking would be greatly appreciated.

Maybe in the near future it will be able track the rounding of the lens (ciliary muscles) so you can have a responsive interface (e.g. hide interface when the user is not focusing its eyes on G-glass)

iirc the there was a story last week showing the unused but present wink apis.

yes people were wondering if it was only code for the future hardware variants on google glass but Mike did it https://plus.google.com/116031914637788986927/posts/MsVDT735...

This is awesome. I wonder why this is not the default (inbuilt) way of taking pictures. Before they made it more obvious, I was actually thinking this would be the way to click pictures in a glass.

- Not everyone can wink well

- Some people can wink with one eye and not the other. With this they would be forced to wink with a specific eye, possibly the one they can't wink with.

- It's a little creepy

Because randomly winking at people might give them the wrong idea.

It's certainly going to be creepy if someone who you're not comfortable sociably with approaches you wearing gGlasses and winks at you.

That would still be creepy without the gGlasses though.

It's also going to be creepy if someone who you currently are comfortable sociably with approaches you wearing gGlasses. "Mate... take them off please"

All roads lead to creepsville in normal social situations, unless the person is using them to augment something like adventure sports, visiting an exhibition or the like (which is why Google chose to lead with those marketing videos and demos obviously)

I wear different shit when I go hiking or skiing. I don't do my daily commute wearing ski goggles. The barrier to surmount for this to become acceptable rather than creepy-couture or ubiquitous in normal daily activities is possibly insurmountable for the foreseeable future (admittedly that's my wishful thinking, and I say this as someone who doesn't live in the Silicon Valley area).

If this is to replace taking your phone out of your pocket or bag (as Brin suggests it has for him in a TED talk), it'll be used everywhere.

Personally, I can't wait. :)

If I saw someone winking in my direction like the author did in the video, I'd assume they have something in their eye.

How about a "Watch" that is a touch pad.

This is a really cool hack. It's exciting for me to see the amount of activity surrounding Glass. I wonder what the sensitivity is to recognize a gesture as a wink rather than a blink... I guess a dive into the source might answer that.

Any alternatives to the voice interface could be welcome.

Maybe nose wiggling al la bewitched.

Sousveillance here we come!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance

Yeah... sousveillance running on a device that you don't control and storing the data on machines that you do not own.

Or a device you do control streaming to servers to you do control. There isn't a little MiniTruth man checking every byte going through the camera.

so google glass runs on modified android :D

yes, apparently with a much truncated api set.

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