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On July 4th, documentary filmmaker named Chris Barrett took his newly acquired pair of Google Glasses out for a stroll on the very busy, proudly recovered Jersey Shore boardwalk. What happened next was either something extraordinary, or something completely innocuous, depending on how much hyperbole you like to put behind things that happen on Google Glass.
Newt wore them. There was a wedding proposal captured on its video recorder. A crazy man took a picture of himself wearing Google Glass in the shower. We know what it's like to play basketball while wearing Google Glass. What I'm getting at is there were very few barriers left for this medium to cross, besides the obvious unseemly one, before Barrett went out and captured the first fight and subsequent arrest using the extended video recording option. And no, this isn't a video of the person wearing Google Glass getting beat up. (Though we're sure that will happen soon.)
"I wanted to test Glass out, so I filmed some fireworks, getting a very cool first-person perspective. About 10 minutes after the fireworks, we were walking back to our car, and I just decided to try it out on the boardwalk," Barrett told VentureBeat on Friday. There's very little pugilism in the actual video. No one yells "World Star!" like every other fight video on the internet. You can see some scuffling over a shoulder or two, but there are no visible punches thrown. Just the immediate, tense, enraptured crowd, and the required shirtless sweaty bros, that come after a fight among a drunken throng of people. Eventually the authorities step in and arrest a a few of the sane, surely sober young men who decided to celebrate their independence with a scrap. Here's what Barrett wrote about the scene on his YouTube video:
"Tonight, I was testing out the extended video recording option with Google Glass on the Boardwalk of Wildwood, New Jersey. I walked right into the tail end of a fight happening on Jersey Shore boardwalk and filmed the first arrest through the lens of my Google Glass."
This video is proof that Google Glass will change citizen journalism forever.
Well, that is certainly a claim one can make about the first arrest captured on Google Glass. As with everything that happens on these glasses, the significance of the event must now be debated and, sure enough, that discussion has already started. Some people don't think this video means very much, and it certainly won't change journalism in any way. "Because if human nature has taught me anything," writes Ashley Burns at Uproxx, "it’s that more people will spend $1,500 on Google Glass with the hopes of catching a nip slip or their dog doing something hilarious than they will Edward Snowden eating biscuits and gravy at a Cracker Barrel. But of course I hope I’m wrong."
But others are more optimistic about how Google Glass change our life in new and creative ways, or something. Christophe Gevrey, the Global Head of Editorial Solutions for Thompson Reuters, writes on his personal website that the video does signal something significant: "More notable than the video itself is the ease at which it was captured without the knowledge of those in the middle of the melee," he says. "His footage foreshadows the rapidly approaching future where everything can be filmed serendipitously by folks wearing devices like Google Glass without the knowledge of the parties involved." If the NSA is big brother, Glassholes are the new little brother.
Who knows if that will actually happen. Google Glass can do plenty of things and, yes, record video is one of them. But this video is everything people are afraid of when it comes to Google Glass's popularity. Oh well! Just wait until someone wearing Google Glass gets beat up. That's the video I want to see.
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This video is proof that Google Glass will change citizen journalism forever.
Ummm, not really.
Cell Phones and cheap cameras did that.
This is just a camera on a pair of, fething ugly, glasses.
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Imagine going through a normal day and then having google or facebook perform face-tagging on it.
Look up "Gargoyles" from the book "Snowcrash" the future of this tech is already mapped out (character called "Lagos").
I can see this growing into an easy means of following anyone as well as the various friend find features contributing. It is hard enough minimizing a trail on the web.
At least they are recognizable glasses.
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Talizvar wrote: Imagine going through a normal day and then having google or facebook perform face-tagging on it.
Look up "Gargoyles" from the book "Snowcrash" the future of this tech is already mapped out (character called "Lagos").
I can see this growing into an easy means of following anyone as well as the various friend find features contributing. It is hard enough minimizing a trail on the web.
At least they are recognizable glasses.
There's that and signing into everywhere with Twitter and 4Square
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Indeed. Walk by a magazine rack and you will start getting e-mails from Playboy and Maxim.
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"His footage foreshadows the rapidly approaching future where everything can be filmed serendipitously by folks wearing devices like Google Glass without the knowledge of the parties involved."
I think the author means to say "surreptitiously" here. And ironically, this poorly-written article thus demonstrates the real way that Google Glass will change journalism: the training and skills expected of proper journalistic writing will be lost in favour of the million-amateur-reporters-with-a-million-cameras approach.
azazel the cat wrote: I think the author means to say "surreptitiously" here. And ironically, this poorly-written article thus demonstrates the real way that Google Glass will change journalism: the training and skills expected of proper journalistic writing will be lost in favour of the million-amateur-reporters-with-a-million-cameras approach.
Almost like the way political reporting has gone from reporting the facts to pushing partisan lines
Talizvar wrote: Imagine going through a normal day and then having google or facebook perform face-tagging on it.
Look up "Gargoyles" from the book "Snowcrash" the future of this tech is already mapped out (character called "Lagos").
I can see this growing into an easy means of following anyone as well as the various friend find features contributing. It is hard enough minimizing a trail on the web.
At least they are recognizable glasses.
Then this is probably a bad time to tell you that they've invented contacts with a display and wireless capability.
Rented Tritium wrote: You can see something and describe it to as many people as you want, but as soon as you actually record it, everyone loses their minds.
Seeing something and describing it =/= recording it for posterity and having it stored in a cloud
Rented Tritium wrote: You can see something and describe it to as many people as you want, but as soon as you actually record it, everyone loses their minds.
Seeing something and describing it =/= recording it for posterity and having it stored in a cloud
Rented Tritium wrote: You can see something and describe it to as many people as you want, but as soon as you actually record it, everyone loses their minds.
Seeing something and describing it =/= recording it for posterity and having it stored in a cloud
In a lot of ways, they are not different.
"I swar, your honor, I saw them!" vs. "Here's the video footage".
Philosophically, both of them involve recording and reproduction of data. One of them just happens to reproduce the data with greater fidelity.
Both are recording, both are reproducing.
This is the basis for the constitutional right to photograph anything in public. This is not crazy hippy nonsense, this is the philosophical basis for a lot of first amendment protections.
I don't think that we need to state the actual practical or physical differences, especially as the similarities there between telling someone something and recording it are as similar to each other as coal is to diamonds.
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