Google Glass: how to get one
February 21, 2013
(Credit: Google)
“We’re looking for bold, creative individuals who want to join us and be a part of shaping the future of Glass,” says the Google Glass team.
“We’d love to make everyone an Explorer, but we’re starting off a bit smaller. We’re still in the early stages, and while we can’t promise everything will be perfect, we can promise it will be exciting.”
“Using Google+ or Twitter, tell us what you would do if you had Glass, starting with the hashtag #ifihadglass.”
- Your application must be 50 words or less
- You must include #ifihadglass in your application
- You can include up to 5 photos with your application
- You can include a short video (15 secs max)
- Be sure to follow us on Google+ (+ProjectGlass) or Twitter (@projectglass) so that we can contact you directly
- You must be at least 18 years old and live in the U.S. to apply
- For more details, please see our full Terms and FAQ
“The deadline for applications is February 27th. If you are chosen, we will reach out to you with an invitation to become a Glass Explorer (please remember to follow us so that we can contact you directly). Explorers will each need to pre-order a Glass Explorer Edition for $1500 plus tax and attend a special pick-up experience, in person, in New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles.”
Comments (20)
by thomas teh
i love google glass
by Michael Ferchland
i feel as if the slow upward look is not the best method. Why change what is already in the human body language. Nodding your head up and down for yes and left to right for no would be sufficient for just about any pop up glass has built in it. People want to avoid voice command at all cost simply because it makes you look crazy like bluetooth so I like subtle motion of the head to wake up glass.
by Paul
While “social” is the buzzword of the moment, Glass V1 isn’t likely to evolve the human2human communication experience- it’s merely another user interface. Where Glass is evolutionary however, is that it finds itself at the eye of the perfect storm of several mature tech frontiers: big data and the network-of-everything, location awareness, image recognition and voice command- to be the first mass-market consumer device that potentially merges these features to intuitively present highly relevant information seamlessly with what you are looking at.
by C
The google model is cute.
by NakedApe
Makes me wanna join this project just to have a chance of meeting her.
by especial
google glass at the moment seems be a very very crude. i think you can only use to record videos, take some pictures, share thiose pictures and make calls. its a very good technology, but at the momment i dont see any useful augmented reality coming up anytime within the next five years.
by especial
making call and taking pictures is nothing new. the google glass is just another goodle ripoff
by Peppermint Patty
I’m so ready for this!!!
by SmartAndSober
I wish to ask questions:
What is the communication mode that is closest to cyborgization-enabled-telepathy, without the invasive cyborgization? (I do not consider Google Glass as cyborgization, as it is not invasive (it does not connect directly to the nervous system), but I may be proven wrong when Google releases its products.)
Can we communicate (usefully and quickly) fine details of knowledges and skills, with the Google Glass?
I also expect high-level data-visualization softwares to be pre-installed in Google’s new products. The researchers in science and technology are in bad need of such softwares.
The ultimate use of Google Glass is, of course, to make every human wearers communicate (with each other) at a level that is beyond (in both quantity and quality) those enabled by any previous head-mounted 3C products, and eventually, to unify humanity into a more optimal organization. I believe such event (unification of humanity via intimate communication technology) will happen in the (very close) future.
by SmartAndSober
I once commented: “Before the creation of first AGI, the only General Intelligences existing are human beings”.
With that idea in mind, I believe that we should ask ourselves: “How to use this technology to maximize the productivity of the existing human population?”
And, of course, the “productivity” in the question above means productivity in science and technology. Since advancements in science and technology are largely dependent on discovering *hidden patterns* – physics, biology, economy and other fields – , Data Visualization softwares are of greatest importance.
Human brains may have great powers, but the powers are certainly ill-channeled for science and technology. We need more Data Visualization to overcome many stupidity-induced hubrises (miscalculation-induced industrial disasters, cognitive biases that are frequently suffered by politicians and private business personnels, and many others) and achieve the Singularity earlier.
(We may overcome *many* stupidity-induced hubrises before the Singularity, but I believe the “total-emancipation” from such hubrises lies in the post-Singularity world.)
by SmartAndSober
Besides my optimism, I must express my fear toward the possibility that Google monopolizes on its new product, in similar ways Apple monopolized and profiteered via the so-called app-store. To be clearer, I do not fear monopolization per se, but the “stagnation” caused by such monopolizations.
If Google, or any other organizations, can accelerate progress in science and technology via monopolization, I have little objection toward such actions.
My greatest fear is that, even the world’s largest search engine provider falls pray to psychological and economic myopicism, a myopicism that will retard the progress and victimize the rest of humanity.
Max More, father of Extropianism, said: “life and intelligence must never stagnate; it must re-order, transform and transcend its limits in an unlimited progressive process.”
by Giulio Prisco
There are already prototypes of neural interface gadgets, e.g. emotiv.com. They are still gadgets, but their evolution will permit real P2P telepathic communications, especially when they become more invasive as you say.
I expect the 20s to be the magic decade of the brain, and by the end of the next decade we may have our iPhones implanted in our brains to provide real, effective telepathy.
by SmartAndSober
The end of 20s should also be the time when the first Turing-Test passing AIs appear, according to Kurzweil’s 2005 prediction.
If 20s is magical, then the 30s is surely incomrehensible.
by Cybernettr
Yeah, but the 20s is closer (it starts just 7 years from now) so that makes it more exciting. The 20s is also the decade when “longevity escape velocity” is supposed to be achieved, so that makes it the “make or break” decade for living to see all these other advancements.
by A4i
Well, large number of peoples think with the speed of their own realtime words, so telepathy is a gimmick and not a usefull thing. Only a small fraction of the population have realtime abstract thinking like a torrent of images/ideas and their interconnection leading to new direction of the thought process. I assume that telepathy should be really easy to implement , just taping to a vocal cords nerve and extracting silent words from average Joe’s mind process.
by SmartAndSober
When nanotechnology become succefful, there will be robots with brain the size of a sand grain and processing power equal to (or beyond) a full human being. Such robots will think at speed far higher than anything human beings are capable of.
Next comes picotechnology.
by SmartAndSober
Speed is not the most important. What’s most important is “SOFTWARE-QUALITY”. The Quality can be measured many ways. Such as: how compact, how time-efficient (CompSci professionals please add more).
The world need more software-whizs like Gennady Korotchevich.
by Oswald
Real effective telepathy for whom? Autistic people, brain-damaged people of one sort or another? Or will there be built-in editors that screen out unwelcome or “disturbing” thoughts so that the bubble of the superior enhanced beings is maintained?
by Editor
Yes, that’s my job. You will notice there are no disturbing thoughts here. Well, with some really huge exceptions…. LOL.
by Bri
It’s all grist for the mill.