Nudge nudge, wink wink interface may drive Google Glass
Two-finger salutes also come in handy, as may patent lawyers
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The user interface for Google's forthcoming tech specs, aka Google Glass, may feature a two-fingered salute and a wink.
The source for this supposition is a Redditor by the name of Fodawim who says he or she has peered into the code of the Google Glass companion app and found the following text:
- "BROWSER_TWO_FINGER_ZOOM"
- "GUEST_MODE_TURNED_OFF"
- "EYE_GESTURES_WINK_ENABLED"
- "EYE_GESTURES_WINK_DISABLED"
- "EYE_GESTURES_WINK_CALIBRATION_SUCCESS"
- "EYE_GESTURES_WINK_CALIBRATION_FAILURE"
- "EYE_GESTURES_WINK_TAKE_PHOTO"
Fodawin's hypothesis is that Glass offers users the chance to zoom windows with a two-fingered gesture and take photos by winking.
There's no telling if Fodawin's analysis is correct, but the two finger zoom certainly sounds feasible if one revisits this TED talk on the “Sixth Sense” interface developed by Pranav Mistry, a computer scientist who also devised a blink-driven interface for a robot.
Mistry has since joined Samsung, an entity hardly shy of lawyering up when it feels its intellectual property has been inappropriately appropriated. We're drawing a long bow here, but might Glass be in legal strife before it even emerges? ®
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Re: Huh?
Facial-recognition software determines that the person you're looking at has winked. It then determines sex and looks up your personal preferences. If appropriate it then searches for local hotels and presents a pre-filled booking form for the nearest hotel for your approval (or a list of your favourite chat-up lines if you're not that confident).
Re: Moral to attack a wearer ?
Whilst I'm unhappy with the idea of 24/7 surveillance, you can't just attack people who are making video-recordings in a public place. Are you going to ram me off the road because I have a dashboard camera?
Anyway, people who want to take hidden video have far better options than Google Glasses, as a quick search on your favourite search engine will confirm. And those wanting to use such facilities for perving would, I guess, prefer to record straight to SD card than risk storing evidence against themselves in the cloud!
Did you notice that this site mainly focuses on IT? I bet that greater than 90% of the readers spend at least 7 hours a day with a display sat at a fixed focal distance, and I bet that there is a higher percentage of glass wearers in the readership than in the general population - so, yep I reckon you're right but what has that got to do with Google Glass?
I had to read the last word in the first sentence twice
To wit...The user interface for Google's forthcoming tech specs, aka Google Glass, may feature a two-fingered salute and a wink.
Someone soon is going to get a right slap on the 8:15 from Dorking as the guy opposite the guy with Google Glass on thinks the other bloke is taking the piss with all the funny blinking.
