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[eemail]

Fear Fear Fear

Thats so untechnocratic.
But see the benefits for the right minded people. You can catch criminals easily.

A crime free world = Heaven.

Get it.

[wzigrang]

"Could the Google Glass technology form a heat map showing the things my eyes rested on?"
Only if you're Superman; your gaze doesn't tranmit thermal energy.

[burhanRaizada]

google glasses will be the great tool to hack things...what about atm card passwords or my email password? i don't really think that they should release them with camera.

This post has been edited by coastie65: 30 January 2013 - 06:02 PM
Reason for edit: Profanity

[nathanwhitworth]

Right, so, like Firefox and Chrome log and report back every web site you visit to their respective vendors? Of course they don't, and that's because we wouldn't use them if they did.

This is unfounded scaremongering, and nothing more.

[Murkalael]

Your concerns are valid, but too paranoid, I see great benefits from it, like "wow look at those breasts, take a picture of them". Ads companies gave up on me they've tried to sell me even their mothers, but they couldn't figure me, because I unsubscribed every single one that tried to sell me something so in these days my inbox is clean with some exceptions like PCWorld's Ads, but that's ok, they're not too frequent and surelly won't sell me nothing.

[rsr135]

Interesting outlook. At least PC World posted another article telling us what we should do now:

http://www.pcworld.c...gle_threat.html

[ClaudeD]

Negative: Another way for people driving to not pay attention to their driving. Positive:(depending on your perception of the world) Could help control the worlds population.

[linuxrants7xpg]

wzigrang, on 24 July 2012 - 09:57 PM, said:

"Could the Google Glass technology form a heat map showing the things my eyes rested on?"
Only if you're Superman; your gaze doesn't tranmit thermal energy.

Well, a heat map doesn't necessarily imply actual heat. A heat map can be generated based on multiple visits an length of visits. There are still several problems with the heat map idea. Google Glass doesn't actually monitor what your eyes are looking at. They can only tell the direction of your head. The device would have no way of knowing if you were looking at a new pair of Nike shoes in the window, waiting impatiently for your spouse in the store, staring at someone you find attractive, or just flat out zoning out. Head direction is just too arbitrary to be useful.

This post has been edited by linuxrants7xpg: 25 July 2012 - 09:04 AM

[citris1]

Wearing masks in public might become popular.

[RebeccaSavastio]

Excellent article! Do you have a Twitter account? I would like to follow your articles. Thanks.

[NickanFayyazi]

nathanwhitworth, on 25 July 2012 - 05:13 AM, said:

Right, so, like Firefox and Chrome log and report back every web site you visit to their respective vendors? Of course they don't, and that's because we wouldn't use them if they did.

This is unfounded scaremongering, and nothing more.

I hope you're being sarcastic, because they do log and report back every website you visit.

[WorkAvoidanceLog]

linuxrants7xpg, on 25 July 2012 - 09:04 AM, said:

wzigrang, on 24 July 2012 - 09:57 PM, said:

"Could the Google Glass technology form a heat map showing the things my eyes rested on?"
Only if you're Superman; your gaze doesn't tranmit thermal energy.

Well, a heat map doesn't necessarily imply actual heat. A heat map can be generated based on multiple visits an length of visits. There are still several problems with the heat map idea. Google Glass doesn't actually monitor what your eyes are looking at. They can only tell the direction of your head. The device would have no way of knowing if you were looking at a new pair of Nike shoes in the window, waiting impatiently for your spouse in the store, staring at someone you find attractive, or just flat out zoning out. Head direction is just too arbitrary to be useful.

Actually, researchers have been using a technology called EyeTracking to study how people respond to menus and other components of a computer screen--since the 1980s.

Website developers and consultants have been using EyeTracking to learn what catches users' attention on a web-page for several years now. The Poynter Institute (an independent journalism school for print, broadcast and online writers, reporters, producers, anchors, editors, managers, entrepreneurs, students and teachers) has conducted four separate EyeTracking studies since 1990: the first, on what readers look at on a newspaper page; recent studies have focused on news websites. The results are very specific: where the user's eye lands on a web-page; where the user's eye goes next; whether the user reads, or simply scans, text; whether the user reads a headline first and then the sub-head, or takes them both in at the same time--as if it were an image; whether a horizontal line acts like physical fence--stopping the eye from looking further down the page--and much more.

It sounds like it wouldn't take very much to make the leap from a computer screen to the sidewalk--if that hasn't happened already. And heat maps don't seem to have anything to do with it.

Here's Poynter's latest EyeTrack study, EyeTrack 07: Eyetracking the News
Here's a summary of Poynter's earlier EyeTrack studies.

The Log has no affiliation with Poynter or any EyeTrack firm.

Back to Work:

[linuxrants7xpg]

WorkAvoidanceLog, on 26 July 2012 - 12:03 PM, said:

linuxrants7xpg, on 25 July 2012 - 09:04 AM, said:

wzigrang, on 24 July 2012 - 09:57 PM, said:

"Could the Google Glass technology form a heat map showing the things my eyes rested on?"
Only if you're Superman; your gaze doesn't tranmit thermal energy.

Well, a heat map doesn't necessarily imply actual heat. A heat map can be generated based on multiple visits an length of visits. There are still several problems with the heat map idea. Google Glass doesn't actually monitor what your eyes are looking at. They can only tell the direction of your head. The device would have no way of knowing if you were looking at a new pair of Nike shoes in the window, waiting impatiently for your spouse in the store, staring at someone you find attractive, or just flat out zoning out. Head direction is just too arbitrary to be useful.

Actually, researchers have been using a technology called EyeTracking to study how people respond to menus and other components of a computer screen--since the 1980s.

Website developers and consultants have been using EyeTracking to learn what catches users' attention on a web-page for several years now. The Poynter Institute (an independent journalism school for print, broadcast and online writers, reporters, producers, anchors, editors, managers, entrepreneurs, students and teachers) has conducted four separate EyeTracking studies since 1990: the first, on what readers look at on a newspaper page; recent studies have focused on news websites. The results are very specific: where the user's eye lands on a web-page; where the user's eye goes next; whether the user reads, or simply scans, text; whether the user reads a headline first and then the sub-head, or takes them both in at the same time--as if it were an image; whether a horizontal line acts like physical fence--stopping the eye from looking further down the page--and much more.

It sounds like it wouldn't take very much to make the leap from a computer screen to the sidewalk--if that hasn't happened already. And heat maps don't seem to have anything to do with it.

Here's Poynter's latest EyeTrack study, EyeTrack 07: Eyetracking the News
Here's a summary of Poynter's earlier EyeTrack studies.

The Log has no affiliation with Poynter or any EyeTrack firm.

Back to Work:

Don't get me wrong, I'm not in any way claiming that EyeTracking isn't possible. It absolutely is, just not with Google Glass. EyeTracking works by capturing and analyzing the eye’s gaze. Google Glass has no way to do that. There's a camera in the device, but it's not facing the user. No way to track the direction of the eye. It would have to rely on the positioning of the head, which as I said before, is just too arbitrary to determine what is being looked at.

[dezign]

citris1, on 25 July 2012 - 12:56 PM, said:

Wearing masks in public might become popular.

Maybe the burqa / burka / burqu' / bʊrqʊʕ / bʊrqɑʕ will become everyday fashion in the USA ; )

[databaseben]

not sure if i would want to use them. i wouldn't want to see advertisements or subliminal messages.

[linuxrants7xpg]

citris1, on 25 July 2012 - 12:56 PM, said:

Wearing masks in public might become popular.

Or, you know, glasses.

[ShawnHopscotch]

Sure, Pandora's box looked pretty enough. But all that was needed was for one stupid person to defy all reason and open the box - letting all Hell break loose in the process. Some things are simply not worth the risks.

[ShawnHopscotch]

Sure, Pandora's box looked pretty enough. But all that was needed was for one stupid person to defy all reason and open the box - letting all Hell break loose in the process. Some things are simply not worth the risks.

[RichardSmith62km]

Regarding our reactions to terrorist attacks, I present Franklin:
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."