GreenZoner egypt: GoogleGlass

نظارة جوجل يحصل متجر يحمل مرة واحدة، بما في ذلك صورة الجذور

Android, developer, glass, google, GoogleGlass, images, kernel, root, SourceCode, wearable 5/26/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"> <div class="mttextarea" dir="rtl" id="TranslationOutput"><div name="div[0]"> <img alt="Google Glass gets a onestop shop for downloads, including a rooted image" data-src-height="340" data-src-width="620" height="350" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/05/google-glass-box-340.jpg" width="640" /></div><div name="div[0]">أوائل نظارات جوجل أصحاب يهيمن عليها المطورين و tinkerers، ولذلك فمن الإنصاف أن تحصل على سهولة الوصول إلى التنزيلات التي يحتاجون إليها. على نحو ملائم، أنشأت جوجل بهدوء صفحة يمركز الصور الزجاج ونواة مصدر التعليمات البرمجية. حتى أنقذت الشركة المالكين من الاضطرار إلى الاختراق هذه النظارات بالطريقة الصعبة--صورة واحد يأتي بريروتيد للراغبين في إرم الحذر (وهذه الضمانات) للريح. معظمنا لا يمكن الاستفادة من هذه الأسبوعية لحوالي سنة أو أكثر، ولكن تلك مع وصول أوائل سوينغ بلوحة الوصل التعليمات البرمجية الجديدة اليوم.</div></div></div>

نظارة جوجل يحصل متجر يحمل مرة واحدة، بما في ذلك صورة الجذور

أوائل نظارات جوجل أصحاب يهيمن عليها المطورين و tinkerer...

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Living with Google Glass, Day Three: Security Checkpoint

exclusive, glass, google, GoogleGlass, livingwithgoogleglass, video 4/28/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="copy post-body" dir="ltr" itemprop="text" style="text-align: left;"><div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/04/glass-2013-04-24-619-25-1366916916.jpg" /></div>You might be inclined to think that airport security is not the best place to wear Google Glass. You'd probably be right, but given the amount that I travel it was pretty-well inevitable that I'd cross through some security checkpoint before the course of this testing would be through. <div class="more-info"> </div>I'm honored to be part of the XPRIZE Visioneering conference this week, a gathering of incredible minds putting their considerable brainpower behind the creation of competitions to make the world a better place. But, to take part I'd have to get out to California, and that meant yet another long flight across the country -- and another trip through the full-body scanner. The question is, how would the folks at airport security react to it? <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VZ8q0m-pBFQ?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe> <div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"></div>As it turns out, with curiosity. At 4:30 in the morning, few of my line-mates were awake or adventurous enough to ask about Glass, but the first security person I passed did. She'd never heard of Glass. When I told her what it could do -- take pictures, video, get navigation, even read emails -- her response was "Get out!" The other security guards were similarly intrigued, but in a friendly, curious way. I of course passed them through the scanner along with all my other circuitry, though I almost forgot to do so. I had, in the course of barely more than a day, already become so used to wearing Glass that I had to be reminded to put it in a bin. You can experience that moment, along with the thrilling process of my shoe removal, in the video above. (Note: In case you're wondering, yes, it is legal to film in a security checkpoint so long as you don't record the computer monitors or interfere with the jobs of the security workers. I was very careful to do neither.) This feels like a good opportunity to talk about the security of Glass itself, which is a somewhat complicated subject. Some aspects are quite good. Others are quite poor. Let's start with the bad: there's no way to prevent someone from picking up your headset, putting it on, and reading your email. They could also reply, make a call, take a lewd photo and upload it to Google+ ... you get the idea. There's no concept of a secure unlock on Glass, which must be considered at least mildly disconcerting. Then again, it's difficult to envision an unlock method that is simple and quick enough to not kill the Glass experience. Voice recognition seems like the obvious solution, but talking to the thing every time you put it on would be a bother. A retinal scanner sure would be nice. Shame it doesn't have one. <div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Living with Google Glass, Day Three Security Checkpoint" data-src-height="348" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/04/myglass-620.jpg" /></div>Other aspects of security are, thankfully, more comprehensive. Sign in to the MyGlass app and you can see on a map exactly where your headset is, which must be a sure sign such functionality is finally coming to Android phones soon. While you aren't able to deactivate a headset remotely (though Google can), you are at least able to factory reset the thing from afar. So, while Glass seems perfectly capable of handling the scary situation of someone stealing your headset and running away with it, it's rather less able to fend off the office prankster who might post a picture of their posterior to your Google+ account. Next time we'll talk photo quality, call quality and, most importantly, take you inside the helmet for a gorgeous ride up the coast. Assuming the battery life lasts long enough, that is.</div></div>

Living with Google Glass, Day Three: Security Checkpoint

You might be inclined to think that airport security is not the best place to wear Google Glass. You'd probably be right, but given the...

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Living with Google Glass, Day Two: Around the House

glass, google, GoogleGlass, livingwithgoogleglass 4/27/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="copy post-body" dir="ltr" itemprop="text" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/04/glass-2013-04-24-619-25-1366916916.jpg" /></div>"You look ridiculous." This was not exactly the reaction I was hoping to receive from my wife the first time she saw me wearing Glass. She was long-since asleep when I arrived late the night before, and so had missed my triumphant, technologically augmented homecoming. I confess Google Glass is a bit odd-looking, but my wife is even more of a hardcore Trekker than I am and I thought somehow this headgear would channel her deep-seated love for bizarre, high-tech facial appendages. Nope. She wasn't the least bit impressed. When she tried them later, she came around a bit, but spent more time saying the silicone grippers pinched her nose than reveling in the potential future applications of such technology. You can't please everybody. My first full day spent wearing Glass would be a rare one: a full day working at home. Well, almost full. I had to make a run into town to take care of some business, which proved to be a perfect opportunity to spend more time experimenting with the navigation in Glass. From what I can tell so far, this is the most comprehensive aspect of the headset. You can select a destination in a few ways, speaking the address being the default. You can also search for a business by name or category and get directions that way, but if you have your Android phone paired, you can just use Maps normally and then, when asking for navigation, the phone will inquire whether you'd like to use Glass. In fact, I did. <div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Living with Google Glass, Day Two Around the House" data-src-height="348" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/04/navigation-prompt-620.jpg" /></div>You can select walking, driving or bicycling navigation -- sadly no public transport yet. Once you're going, your path is shown as a blue arrow over a scrolling map. It's being rendered in real-time, but it's important to understand that this isn't proper augmented reality stuff. You'll see the arrow pointing on a map where to go, but if you turn your head, that arrow doesn't swivel around to stay pointed in the right direction. At least, it doesn't yet, but I have a feeling that'll come in a future update. Now you'll note that I said above "if" you have your phone paired. Pairing with a phone is not necessarily a requirement for using Glass. The thing can work entirely over WiFi and, it's worth pointing out, that if you're pairing to your phone over Bluetooth, you'll likely need to add wireless tethering to your data plan. I'm a Verizon subscriber and will now be looking at an additional monthly cost just to use Glass. As if the $1,600 up-front cost weren't bad enough. So yes, you can in theory use Glass out and about with an iPhone or other device that has wireless data enabled, but if you want the full experience (reading and replying to texts, for example), it'll need to be Android. Thankfully, pairing to your Android handset is predictably easy. Just install the MyGlass app and select to pair to a new headset. It'll display a large QR code that you hold in front of Glass' camera and, in a few moments, you're good to go. <div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"> </div>As for my experience on day two, other than directions downtown and back, I honestly struggled to find a good use for Glass. I was typically standing in front of my dual-monitor desktop, so any notification that came through on my headset, I had already seen on my PC. I also answer my calls on Google Voice on my PC and couldn't really find a good reason to keep the thing perched on my head. At home, it just isn't that useful. So, I went and played fetch with my dogs and recorded that. I hope you enjoy. Next time: the joys of airport security whilst wearing Glass, and a discussion of the available, and the missing, security within the headset itself. </div></div>

Living with Google Glass, Day Two: Around the House

"You look ridiculous." This was not exactly the reaction I was hoping to receive from my wife the first time she saw me wearing...

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Caption contest: Sony imagines the future of commuting, involves its 3D visors

captioncontest, GoogleGlass, HMZ-t2, sony 3/21/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="copy post-body" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Caption contest Sony imagines the future of commuting, involves its giant 3D visors" data-src-height="450" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/sonyvisors.jpg" /></div>Musing on a dystopian near-future where you really don't want to see your fellow commuters, Sony Japan's Twitter account just offered us the above image. Is this what's going to happen when the likes of Sony and Google have managed to supplant our affection for smartphones with eyewear tech? Mat: "We're going to need more charging sockets." James: "Perhaps not the best time to be watching Unstoppable." Richard Lai: "You're seeing this ad because your fellow passengers are also watching this." Tim: "Nice shoes." Steve: "We've arrived? I'll just finish the movie while crossing this intersection." Dan: "Trainspotting? I haven't seen a train in years." Jon Fingas: "Seeing where you're going is so 2012." Brad: "We just can't get enough of that amazing Galaxy S 4 launch event." Edgar: "Glass? Where we're going, we don't need Glass." Ben: "Where am I? What's happened to my life? Oooh, a new episode of Deadliest Catch!" Darren: "Geordi La Forge is all up in these royalties." Terrence: Blah, blah, bah, something, something, something, private porn watching. Brian: "You guys are going to the X-Men auditions, too? Cool. Didn't want to miss my stop." David: "Do you know where we are? Hmm, about ten minutes into the season finale of Game of Thrones." Jon Turi: "Victims of the Krazy Glue prankster all try to go about their day." Michael: "Sony says all your face are belong to us." Don: "Wow. This is just like being on a train." Myriam: "So those grab-handles double as VR glasses, right? </div></div>

Caption contest: Sony imagines the future of commuting, involves its 3D visors

Musing on a dystopian near-future where you really don't want to see your fellow commuters, Sony Japan's Twitter account just of...

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Google applies for another Glass patent, thinks about controlling your garage door and fridge

fridge, garagedoor, google, GoogleGlass, patentapplication 3/21/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="copy post-body" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Google's applies for another Glass patent, thinks about controlling your garage door" data-src-height="412" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/fridge.jpg" /></div>In case you hadn't noticed, the people over at Mountain View continue to work pretty hard on bringing yet more functionality to its Google Glass. During our patent application trawling this week, we fished up another possible application for Google's future-wear, where the finished product might fuse together augmented reality (and wireless connectivity) to control objects around your house. The headwear will apparently using visual identification, RFID, infra-red, Bluetooth and even QR codes as methods for recognizing controllable devices. Once your well-designed head-mounted display picks up a target, it would then pull down information related to the object, including a control interface. These "superimposed controls" would then hover over the real-life objects (which would need to be WiFi-connected or otherwise), with garage doors and refrigerators both referenced as possibilities (we've added sketches for both of these after the break). Whether you'd then adjust these white goods with your voice or otherwise is still an unknown -- the predictably fuzzy-worded patent application doesn't quite touch on any... touch interfaces. <div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Google's applies for another Glass patent, thinks about controlling your garage door and fridge" data-src-height="270" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/opengarage.jpg" /></div></div></div>

Google applies for another Glass patent, thinks about controlling your garage door and fridge

In case you hadn't noticed, the people over at Mountain View continue to work pretty hard on bringing yet more functionality to its ...

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Google Glass is, in fact, compatible with prescription glasses

glass, google, GoogleGlass, prescription, wearabletechnology 3/13/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img alt="Google Glass is, in fact, compatible with prescription glasses" data-src-height="331" data-src-width="497" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/gregglassframes.jpg" /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">We learned a lot about Google Glass yesterday at SXSW, including a sample of the kinds of apps it will be running when it becomes available to the public. Today on Google+, the Project Glass team let out a bit of rather important hardware info: namely that Glass is compatible with prescription glasses. Turns out that its "design is modular, so you will be able to add frames and lenses that match your prescription," though the team is still working on the frame design to get it juuust right. The prescription compatibility won't be ready for the Explorer edition of Glass, but we can expect the frames to officially debut "later this year." </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">  <a class="gdgt-product-image" href="http://gdgt.com/google/project-glass/" target="_blank" title="Google Project Glass"><img alt="Google Project Glass thumbnail image" height="50" itemprop="image" src="http://media.gdgt.com/img/products/480/aago/aago-50.jpg" width="50" /></a> </div><h2> <a href="http://gdgt.com/google/project-glass/" itemprop="url" target="_blank">Google Project Glass</a> </h2></div>

Google Glass is, in fact, compatible with prescription glasses

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Google Glass learns how your friends dress, picks 'em out in a crowd

google, Google Glass, GoogleGlass, InSight, mobilepostcross, Spatiogram, Srihari Nelakuditi 3/08/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="Google Glass" data-src-height="381" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/abfabglas.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">Facial recognition<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7080182682816192337">? Pah. Dahling, the only way to find someone in a crowd is to pick out what they're wearing. InSight is an app being developed for Google Glass by Duke University that helps you identify your chums, even when they've got their back to you, by channeling its inner Joan Rivers. All your pals have to do is submit some self-portraits to the app, which then creates a spatiogram -- identifying the colors, textures and patterns with which they've adorned themselves. That data is then pushed to Google Glass, hopefully allowing you to avoid the usual "I'm by the store, no, the other store" routine. Then again, maybe your friends will find you first -- after all, you're the one with a computer strapped to your head.</a></div></div>

Google Glass learns how your friends dress, picks 'em out in a crowd

Facial recognition ? Pah. Dahling, the only way to find someone in a crowd is to pick out what they're wearing . InSight is an app bei...

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Editorial: Google Glass contest elicits mild uses for wild tech

Editorial, google, Google Glass, Google+, GoogleGlass, Project Glass, ProjectGlass, twitter, wearable 2/28/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><hr dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" /> 	 	 	 	 		 		 		 		 		<div class="copy post-body" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">	<div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Editorial Google Glass contest underlines mediocre uses for brilliant tech" data-src-height="350" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/ifihadglass.jpg" /></div>Google's #ifihadglass contest advertises for "bold, creative individuals" to start carrying pre-production builds of Glass later this year. Since most people flatter themselves as dauntless and inspired, Google's challenge casts a wide net and applications are piling into Twitter. The contest apparently also seeks prosperous individuals willing to pay $1,500 for the prize, plus travel expense to pick it up. There might be good fiscal reasons for Google's parsimony, but I can't help noting that the $12 million of revenue generated by eager beta testers represents five-thousandths of 1 percent of the company's market cap, or one-tenth of a percent of its liquid cash. Putting aside whatever demographic-shaping is in play, the more interesting question is whether Google will find its desired 8,000 bold creative types. The applications do not foretell blazing originality among foaming early adopters. If there is a depressing strain of mediocrity in the #ifihadglass Twitter stream, perhaps it speaks less to human limitation and more to intrinsic constraints of the device as it is currently understood. 	 A survey of #ifihadglass Twitter applications (which, by the way, are formally called "essays" in the contest rules, and wouldn't Thoreau be pleased) reveals two things. First, most people aren't trying very hard. Google encourages photos and short videos along with the tweets, but those media enhancements are rare. Applications of fewer than 50 words may also be posted to Google+, but I restricted my research (hey, if tweets are essays, my trolling can be research) to Twitter because I don't know where Google+ is, and am not certain it truly exists. The second facet of the Twitter supplication stream is its categorical quality -- not unlike the Academy Awards, so neatly do the creative works order themselves into groups. The contest challenge is to describe how you would use Glass. The answers fall into broad divisions: Record Everything: This is the obvious use case for a media device that you don't have to pick up or put down. It imagines Glass as a dash cam, where the user's forehead is the dash. I did not break out response types by percentage, but variations on this theme occurred frequently in my sample. Applications of this sort will probably not meet the jury's guiding criterion of "the most compelling possible uses for Glass." Unless the judges get desperate. Share My Unique Life: A subset of the Record Everything bucket, these tweets presume the applicant to be uncommonly interesting, especially when engaged in undisclosed daily activities. One tweet promised (threatened?) the world would "live in my shoes." Another committed to "share an incredible life with the world." Travel: Many submissions pledged to organize global jaunts if Glass were bestowed. Starting with what, for some people, will be a long journey just to get their hands on the prize. One Special Moment: Short-term thinking is evident, sometimes to good effect. One pre-nuptial couple promised on video to us Glass during their wedding ... and the honeymoon. Praise Google: This is the suck-up category in which applicants promise to be viral marketers for Glass. Put Glass On Things: Especially animals. I do hope the judges pick some of these. I know I would not be able to resist clamping Glass on my dogs. Gushers: The core thesis here is, "I should get Glass because I think Glass is the most awesome thing ever." Humorists: Clearly not trying, except to make their followers laugh. Examples include, "I would put my phone down, get some friends, video car accidents and show my new friends." And, "I would stare at my hamster eating and save every precious moment." And, "I'd look like elves had given up building a monorail to connect my ears." GTD: Productivity-minded hopefuls are among the best candidates in my opinion, as they lift the device's floundering use-case prospects. One tweet envisioned surreptitiously taking pictures in class instead of notes. (That was possibly a joke; see the Humorists category above.) Another student bent on real self-improvement thought it would be valuable to let his archaeology professors watch his work on digs in the field. That guy has to get one. Another interesting appeal: "I would caption everything (I am deaf) using a speech recognition software and language processor that I am helping to develop." (Not to be cynical, but I wonder about copycat submissions, and whether fact-checking is baked into the contest.) Demonstrations of Skill: These rare and mighty submissions inarguably illustrate creativity that must be attractive to the judges, even if the applicability to Glass is uncertain -- as in this Android wrist mount, and this 15-second movie. Those are the people Google should give Glass to. (Forget the $1,500 crap. Why is Google willing to risk excluding a rare creative individual who can't afford an expensive and probably buggy gadget?) In a recent interview, a Glass developer explained that the product concept came to life for her when she observed a long line of people waiting for a bus. Every head in line was buried in a screen, and all hands were busy holding those screens. The product vision solves that scenario by simultaneously bringing technology closer and moving it out of the way. I'm not alone in loving that vision, and standing ready to eagerly adopt wearable computing. But the mundane underlying truth is that Glass is a smartphone with a new form factor. In fact everything that observers know now, a year or so before launch, tells us that Glass is less functional than an average smartphone. (That could change.) Removing hands from mobile computing provides an incalculable usability gain. But let's remember this about hands. They distinguish us as humans, and hands do most of the creativity in the world. Genius without hands goes nowhere. Human civilization was built with opposable thumbs. Is it a mystery that #ifihadglass contest applicants can't think of anything interesting to do with a handless device? Pics, vids, mapping, texting, sharing. Notwithstanding functions I might be leaving out, at this point it looks like a rudimentary mobile feature set. Nimble as hell, but not very capable aside from that. I expect the business and product impact of Glass to be tectonic. I will want one. But its usefulness points rather to the ordinary than the extraordinary. <hr /> Brad Hill is a former Vice President at AOL, and the former Director and General Manager of Weblogs, Inc. His planned use of Glass is turning on the video and staring blankly into space. 	 	 </div></div>

Editorial: Google Glass contest elicits mild uses for wild tech

Google's #ifihadglass contest advertises for "bold, creative individuals" to start car...

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نظارة جوجل يحصل متجر يحمل مرة واحدة، بما في ذلك صورة الجذور

Living with Google Glass, Day Three: Security Checkpoint

Living with Google Glass, Day Two: Around the House

Caption contest: Sony imagines the future of commuting, involves its 3D visors

Google applies for another Glass patent, thinks about controlling your garage door and fridge

Google Glass is, in fact, compatible with prescription glasses

Google Glass learns how your friends dress, picks 'em out in a crowd

Editorial: Google Glass contest elicits mild uses for wild tech

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