WEBVTT - TechStuff sees through Google Goggles 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.960 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:09.160 It's ready. Are you didn't touch? With technology? With tech 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:17.599 Stuff from how stuff flix dot com. Hello everyone, and 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:19.759 welcome to tech Stuff. My name is Chris Poulette and 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:21.759 I am an editor at how Stuff works dot com. 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:25.560 Sitting across from me as always, his senior writer Jonathan Strickland. 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:31.320 The Moment One Learns English Complications set in Well, yeah, 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.559 it's the third short one in a row. Right. For 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:37.720 people who are listening to these podcasts out of order, 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:40.480 that's going to be confusing. But we record a whole 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:42.919 bunch at once and then we parcel them out over 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:49.520 time and we giggle. So today we are talking about 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.680 a topic that has been in the news a little 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.160 bit right about the time that we're recording this UM 0:00:55.200 --> 0:01:01.000 in mid to late February. UM. It'll be really funny 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.520 in the future when people come back, because we we 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.200 do get from time to time people listening back. Uh, 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.080 they'll say, oh, I'm gonna start from the beginning. Yeah, 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.680 it's fantastic. When they listened to that old episode where 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.479 we were talking about whether or not Apple was coming 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:15.920 out with a tablet, Yes, and we did do that. 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:19.679 It was really funny. Yeah, it funny in retrospect. Yes. Um. 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:21.479 And this may be another one of those things, because 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.640 it's talking about a product that it has not technically 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:29.000 been announced, It's been speculated upon a bit and leaked, 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:33.000 supposedly leaked. Yeah, we're talking about a pair of glasses 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.520 engineered by Google that would give you a an augmented 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.560 reality view of the world around you. And h and 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:45.000 the fact that this, according to the reports that have 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.480 been published in places like The New York Times, this 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:52.440 would come to market by the end of Heck, by 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:54.440 the time this podcast goes live, we may know more 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.000 about it. It It may there may be a public announcement. Well, 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.200 as it turns out, Tim buck three was right, the 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:04.040 future is so bright, you're gonna have to wear shades. Yeah. Well, 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.440 and here's the other thing is that with all the 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.200 information this will be giving you, I'll be wearing these 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:14.639 sunglasses at night. Alright. So so what what is it 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:16.720 about this now? Um? We should talk for a moment. 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.880 I guess about a heads up display. Yes, because that's 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.640 the idea here, the HUD. The HUD that's housing in 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:28.360 urban development. So the heads up display. Um, This is 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:30.280 the kind of thing that people have been expecting in 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:34.120 cars for a really long time and it just hasn't happened. Yeah, 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.800 there there are a few cars that do have these 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:40.519 sort of things, but they're pretty limited, and it's more 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:44.200 about stuff like a showing you a projection of what's 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.840 in your what's behind the car, that kind of stuff. 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.440 But yeah, the heads up display does. Anyone who's played 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.720 video games, especially first person shooters, is familiar with the 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.920 heads up display because in in video games it gives 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.480 you vital information about how you are doing, like whether 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:03.160 you have any bullets in your gun or possibly in 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:07.120 your chest. Well, it's it's probably due in part to 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.760 the fact that heads up displays are used in military 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.320 aircraft and have been for quite some times. Essentially, what 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.040 we're talking about is if you if you still have 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:22.400 no idea, um, information is projected upon the in an aircraft, 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.519 the glass canopy within your field of view, and so 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:30.320 you're you can see through it to whatever happens to 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:36.520 be on the other side, clouds, enemy aircraft, mountains. Yeah, okay, 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.720 so you know you could see the information. Um, it's 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.000 useful for targeting other aircraft. I mean, hey, I've seen 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.920 the documentary Top Gun. Um. Look, it only took three 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:51.920 three episodes before I got into say that. Um. So 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.520 you know, the technology has been around for for quite 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.360 some time, but in in some applications like uh, you know, 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:02.040 regular cars just hasn't taken off, so to speak. Um, 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.240 but this is more or less what Google is proposing 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:09.560 to do, assuming that this is this leaked information is 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.560 actually true. Um, it would be sort of a headstup 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.200 display that you carry along with you in a pair 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:19.080 of glasses, so you know, you and overlay of information 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.960 about the world around you, which we know by the 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:27.479 term augmented reality augmented and that it's augmented by data. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:31.359 So this augmented reality could take many different forms. It 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.520 could be something like, let's say that you're wearing these 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:39.120 glasses and you're using an application that that lets the 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:44.039 glasses display information provided by something like Google Maps. So 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:47.279 let's say you're walking through a strange city, you're visiting 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:49.440 a place you've never been before, and you've got to 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.240 pair of these glasses on and you you're actually on 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.720 your way to a specific location, but you've never ever 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.400 gone there yourself before, and the glasses tell you which 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.160 way to turn. M hm. You're just wearing the glasses. 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.080 You're looking at the world around you, and as you 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.360 come up to where you need to go, the glasses 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.599 indicate through this heads up display that you need to 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.600 take a left at the next intersection, and so you 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.200 are navigating your way. They're using the glasses as a tool. 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:18.320 It's sort of it's taking really taking the place of 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.520 smartphone and in a lot of ways, augmented reality. When 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.000 we first started talking about augmented reality, a lot of 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.119 people were imagining it as something that you would wear, 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:31.800 like a head mounted display. Uh, so it would be 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.240 some sort of special goggles that would put this information 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.279 on top of the world around us. We've been talking 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.719 about this for years, but the actual implementation we have seen, 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:44.680 at least in recent years, has been handheld devices like smartphones. Yes, 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:49.200 and as as useful as that's been in in certain circumstances, 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.480 it's also sort of inconvenient to hold the smartphone up 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.040 in front of your face while you're trying to navigate 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:57.360 a city. Yeah, and it makes you look like a 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.680 weirdo and you're likely to hurt yourself. You're looking like 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:04.520 a smartphone wielding weirdo, like a smartphone wielding zombie with 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.920 one arm extended out in front of you. Because yeah, 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:08.640 if you're if you're trying to if you're trying to 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.200 get both a look at the world around you and 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.159 get a look at the information that's being president on 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.599 your phone, then you kind of have to hold it 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.440 up so that your eyeline is still looking out straight 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.680 ahead of you. Right, most of us don't do that, 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:23.520 I think I think most of us. What we're doing 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.880 is we're looking down. We're holding the phone at around 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.040 at the level of our stomach or so, and we're 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.200 looking down at it and we're walking anyway, which means 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:35.760 that we can have close encounters with things like telephone 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:39.839 polls or other pedestrians, both of which I have done. 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:47.479 I've also tripped over curbs. I have nearly stepped upon 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:51.039 a baby. Uh that I wasn't didn't even have a 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:52.839 phone in my hand. That was just me being mean. 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:57.440 But uh yeah, there are a lot of opportunities for mishaps, 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:59.480 like getting hit by cars and stuff. So the idea is, 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.560 why don't we put this stuff in, this technology into 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.680 a different form factor where we can still look around 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:07.839 at the world around us and react to it, get 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.960 the information we want and we that we sometimes we need, 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.440 but not have it be an experience that puts us 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:18.000 or other people in danger. Now, of course, this will 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:21.720 also make it easier for for you to be mystified 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:23.720 when people from New York come up to you and 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:27.200 ask you if you need help finding something in particular, 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.800 and you go, how did you know? And look, you 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.480 know this is this is just gonna be another way 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.120 for them to pick out the tourists. Well, that's all right, 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.960 and and again it's not just something you would wear 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.240 in a strange city. No, I just but I was 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.480 just thinking about it in that context because I've always 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.280 had trouble figuring out how they knew. But they just know. Well, 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.720 anyone who looks up in New York City is obviously 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.600 a tourist. I'm guilty. So let's talk about some of 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.920 the hardware that this would have to have in order 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:55.600 for it to work. Alright, So we don't know the 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.560 specifics because this has been stuff that has been leaked 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.560 to the media. There's been no official as of the 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.800 recording of this podcast, there's been no official announcement from 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.520 Google to tell us what this stuff is Yeah, the 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:11.080 the Google spokesperson said something to the effect of, hey, look, 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.600 there goes the lock Mass monster, and when everybody turned 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.920 to look, he ran off. Yeah. This was part of 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:20.760 a Google X, which is a top secret research and 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:26.440 development facility within Google which people work on in Yeah. 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.400 But anyway, So, so the what these would have to 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.720 have in order for this to work is the glasses 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.880 would have to have a camera, because you would have 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.520 to have some sort of If you're overlaying information on 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:41.440 top of specific things, then you want the the glasses 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.520 to be able to look at you through the camera, 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.800 look at a in a direction, and overlay information on 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.240 the proper stuff. So let's say that you're looking at 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.160 a building and uh or or a collection of buildings, 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.560 and you're looking for a specific restaurant and you're scanning 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.079 from left to right. Then the name of the restaurant 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.360 pops up when you're looking at the right store or front, 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:04.280 let's say, or even a menu for that restaurant perhaps, 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.439 So there's that needs the camera for that visual acuity. 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:09.679 It also probably has some sort of GPS sensor in 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:14.720 it so it knows where you are geographically. Um, it's 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:20.080 got to have some sort of of of transceiver in it. 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.000 It has to be able to receive information exactly. So 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.120 it's going to be either it's gonna it's either it's 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:29.719 going to have WiFi or maybe Bluetooth or maybe cellular 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:33.680 or maybe some combination of those three, uh, in order 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.480 for it to send and receive information. So that because 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.000 obviously you can't store the world's information on a pair 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.360 of glasses, it would never fit. You would have to 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:45.000 have the world's longest chord connecting you to whatever computer 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.640 database had all the information. So this information is stored 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.360 in the cloud, So you have to have a way 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.319 of getting the information to and from the glasses, otherwise 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.520 they're just gonna be this heavy pair of glasses sitting 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.800 on your face. I was trying to get to the 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.280 to the opera, but it's still two blocks away and 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.680 my extension cord won't let me travel any farther, so 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.200 I guess I'll have to go home. Bumm, the what's 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.480 that giant backpack on your Most of the batteries, you 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.480 also have to have the actual display, which, according to 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.200 the information I've seen, is set a set to the 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.559 side for one eye only, so that one of your 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.760 eyes can just quickly glance over and see what the 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.200 information is. Uh, it's not something that's overlaid over both 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:31.079 lenses of the glasses themselves. That I imagine would be 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:35.760 very distracting and would make things very difficult to do. Yeah. Uh, 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.600 there needs to be some sort of user interface so 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:40.920 that you can actually navigate through things, because it may 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.880 be that there are multiple levels of information you could 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:47.040 overlay on a location, and you you have an interest 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:50.200 in a very specific subset of information, but you're not 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.679 interested in the rest, So how do you navigate through that? 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.600 According to what I've read, it looks like it's done 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.080 right now through little subtle head motions, like you tilt 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.480 your head a certain way, and that lets you scan 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:06.720 through items or select a specific item, And like clicking 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.520 on a link, you might have to tilt your head 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.400 just a little bit in the direction. And according to 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.840 what I've read, it sounds like these are pretty subtle movements. 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.559 That's not something where you're gonna be sitting on the 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.760 train and you look across and there's someone head banging 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.040 away as they're trying to navigate Wikipedia. That's not what 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.000 this is all about. It's more very it's very subtle 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:31.760 movements now that you may still find that person. You know, 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.200 they might still be there, but you it won't be 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:38.800 necessary to head bang in order to navigate Wikipedia or 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.840 any other website like how stop works dot com. Um, yeah, 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:44.560 I hope it wouldn't be like a touch screen because 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.040 I have enough problem with fingerprints on my glasses. Right. 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.280 There was talk that there could be some voice activation 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.319 stuff added in at some point, and even that this 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.719 could ultimately take the place of a smartphone where you 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.280 would have an earpiece that would be part of this 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.760 so that you could make calls and you can you know, 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.320 you could replace it. There are other reports I've seen 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.000 that no, this is really going to be paired with smartphones, 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:11.880 where you might use your smartphone as the the device 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.440 that actually connects to the Internet, and then the glasses 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.840 connect to your smartphone and use it as essentially a 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.679 hot spot. Um, that's a possibility, although most reports I've 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:23.960 seen say the glasses themselves are going to have the 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:28.040 capability to either use WiFi or three G or four 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.480 G connections in order to get data. Of course, if 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.000 it is using WiFi and you can use your smartphone 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:34.920 as a WiFi hot spot, that's still a way that 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.240 you would use your phone to actually grab the data 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:41.000 and then it would send it to the glasses. UM. 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.480 There are a lot of interesting uses for this, so 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.559 lots of information about the world around you. You might 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.560 be able to find out things like historical information of 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.680 sites that you're visiting. You might be able to find 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:57.319 recommendations for restaurants or shops or movies. You might even 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.000 be able to do things like navigate and purchase stuff 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.240 before you get to places. Um. Like, let's say you 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.280 look at a movie theater and it pulls up the 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.880 movie listings for that theater while you're looking at it, 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.840 and then you decide, Hey, that movie sounds interesting, I've 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:12.720 been meaning to see that. I'm already in the area. 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.280 I'm just gonna go and buy tickets through here. Like 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:19.400 these are all things that might be used with the glasses. Again, 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.120 since they don't actually exist in a way that we 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.240 can play with them right now, we can only imagine 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:29.839 they're the use case scenarios right well. Of course, uh, 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:34.120 Google has Google Latitude UM, which is sort of a 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.719 competitor to some of the other location based services out 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:38.760 there in a way that your Google account kind of 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:43.400 like four square. Yeah. Um, and uh so you know 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.680 you could you could also do things like check into 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:49.800 a location. Um, you could go to a restaurant, for example, 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.840 and and uh uh you know, you know you've you've 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.280 navigated there, and once you're there, Uh, you would maybe 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.160 be able to read tips from other people, you know, 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:03.440 stay away from the lasagna, don't eat the fish. Um 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.520 we had two choices, chicken or fish. Oh yes, I 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:10.600 had the lasagna. Um, so so yeah, I mean it 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.599 could be used for all kinds of things like that. Um. 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.360 Google doesn't expect people who are going to wear these 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:20.840 all the time, at least according to these reports. Of course, 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.120 again Google hasn't said, but but let me tell you 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.560 there will be some. If I get a pair of 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.840 these glasses, I will wear them all the time. Yes, 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:33.760 he will, because guys, to me, this sounds super cool 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.840 and it's something I've wanted to play with for a 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:39.200 long time. And I love augmented reality applications. I've got 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.200 some of my phone I use a lot of the 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:45.360 ones that you know have augmented reality features built into them. So, Google, 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.080 if you're listening, I am more than happy to be 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.800 a beta participant in this classes program and I will 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.360 I will wear the heck out of them, because this 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.880 is exactly I love the idea of information being everywhere, right, 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.680 having having a a geographic element to information, so that 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.840 it almost gives information more of a sense of permanence 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.960 to me, like you've associated it with a place. It's 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:12.240 not just data. There's a physical location that you have 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.760 been to. And when you combine the two, to me, 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:18.200 that makes the information more meaningful and relevant to you 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:22.080 from a personal experience. And being the nerd that I am, 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.840 I love information anyway, So this is the kind of 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.600 thing that just gives me like, who I want one? 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.360 Maybe you could build ghost detector apps into them, and 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:35.120 then you don't play with me, Palette, We're not gonna 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.200 go into that. I will have a will have a 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:41.640 van and oh man, it's so easy to get me 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:45.440 upset about that. Let's let's talk about quick quick aside. 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:51.440 Ghost hunting is bunk alright, alright, God, that was such 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:53.960 a fun episode. Um yes, that we do have an 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.040 episode about ghost hunting technology and what it does and 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.600 what it does not do. Um I e. It does 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.160 not ghosts. So if you want to on its own, 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.760 if you want to learn You don't even start Pette. 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:06.560 If you want to, If you want to learn more, 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:08.760 go and check out that episode. It's actually a fun one. 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:10.880 It was one of those where it was there was 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:12.600 a bet on whether or not I could finish the 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:17.000 episode without having some sort of aneurysm or something. I 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:21.720 made it. Yeah, No, it was. It was a razor's edge. 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.880 So let's let's talk about whether. Okay, let's we're on 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.280 the the the rumor mill here, so it could or 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.240 could not happen. Let's let's talk about the technology too. 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.720 I mean, could this happen. We've got small cameras that 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.440 are built into our cell phones. I mean they're it's 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.400 receivable that you you could have something small enough to 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.560 put in a pair of glass. Um you've got um, 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.960 you know, you've got the Oakley Thump MP three player 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.160 that's built in the glasses. And supposedly these these uh 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:54.000 devices look a lot like the Oakley Thump glasses, according 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:55.840 to one report I read. So you know, we know 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:59.280 that you could put a battery and some audio technology 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:03.600 in there. YEA a question, But the question I have 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:08.920 really is what would the battery life be like? Because um, 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.560 you know, I mean I've and also we don't know 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.040 for sure that would be running the Android operating system. 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.960 I've seen a lot of of Yeah, that's the assumption 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.600 that it would be running Android, which makes sense. I mean, 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.080 that's your mobile platform. And you would think if this 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:28.480 is sort of a either either a split from smartphone 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.440 technology or a compliment to smartphone technology. However you want 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.040 to look at it, if it's parallel or if it's 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.919 splitting off, you would imagine that would probably use a 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:39.240 similar operating system, although I'm not sure where the processor 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.200 is gonna go. Yes, that's the thing is that it's 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.920 gonna it's gonna need a processor, it's gonna need the battery, 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.080 it's gonna have all these sensors in it, it's gonna 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:51.240 have the display technology in it. Uh So you start 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.520 wondering how bulky is it gonna be, how heavy is 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:55.840 it gonna be, how hot is it going to get 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:59.919 as it's running, and how long will the battery life last. Now, 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:03.960 if my Android smartphone is anything to go by, and 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.600 I have I have one of the bulkyear Android smartphones, 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.639 And to be fair, the reason for that is because 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.040 it's one of the ones that has a physical quirity keyboard. 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.040 So that's that's adding quite a bit of bulk to it. 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:16.280 But if we look at a smartphone and we look 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.399 at how heavy it is and and the size of it, 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.399 part of that is because the displays tend to be 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.840 pretty big. In this case, the display can be much 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:24.800 smaller because it's gonna be really close to your eye, 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.080 so you don't need to make it that big. You know, 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:29.639 it's gonna it's gonna cover up a good amount of 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.880 your field of vision when you look a certain direction, 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:35.360 so you don't need it to be huge. So that's 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:37.280 gonna cut down a little bit on on the size 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.679 and weight. But yeah, I'm curious to see, like, is 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.439 it gonna feel comfortable? Maybe that's one reason people wouldn't 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:45.760 wear them all the time, because if they're if they're 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:47.560 heavy enough, you might not want to wear them for 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:50.720 more than, you know, a few minutes. But if you're 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:52.719 not wearing them all the time, where the heck are 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.880 you putting them? Yeah? Well, you also have to be 0:18:56.359 --> 0:19:01.640 concerned that people who need prescription vision correct action like me, uh, 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.520 might have difficulty reading it. Now for people who are 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.399 are near sighted, maybe not as much of a problem. 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.760 As people who are far sighted. Although people who are 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:11.960 near sighted who are not wearing contacts and put these 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:13.840 glasses on, are not going to really be able to 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.080 see the world around them. They might be able to 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:18.440 read the information about the world around them, but then 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:20.560 they look at they actually look at the building that 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.760 they're reading about, and that just as an indistinct blob. Yes, 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:26.840 that's how it would be for me. Yeah. No, That's 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:28.560 the thing is that if I were wearing these glasses, 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:30.879 I would also need to wear contacts in order to 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:33.480 really experience it the way I would want to. You 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:39.919 are about to fall in. Uh course you pay the 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:45.040 platypus man. I wonder how many Phineas and ferb references 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:47.639 we've had since I started watching that show. And he 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:49.520 doesn't even have kids, ladies, And it's a lot. No, 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.199 I'm just a big kid myself. But yeah, yeah, there 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:55.600 there are a lot of other questions too, like, uh, 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:59.439 from what I understand, Yeah, the big one they guess 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:01.160 work right now as they think that it will probably 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:03.960 cost around this bay being the media. Yeah, well I 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:07.040 should identify they like New York Times and blogs and 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:11.280 like like a wireds blog, Engadget and other blogs like that. 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.000 The best guess right now is that would fall into 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:18.119 the smartphone range, so probably between two and fifty and 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.520 six hundred dollars for a pair of these, which you know, 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:24.880 that's that's that's a luxury item. That's something that early 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:27.440 adopters will probably be more than willing to pay, assuming 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:29.760 that they have that kind of money laying around. But 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.720 your average consumer would be like, well, that's just a curiosity, 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.080 and they may very well be correct, because the other 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:38.800 thing I've read is that apparently Google doesn't have any 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:42.320 plans on how it would monetize this, that this would 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:45.160 just this is almost like it's just an experiment to see, 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:48.680 you know, hey we can do this. Let's do this 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:51.719 and show that we can do it. But there's no 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:54.679 real plan on making that like a core part of 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:57.320 their business because there's not really a money generating part 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.879 of that right now. Although you could imagine that advertising 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:03.400 would very easily fall into their you know, location based 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:06.600 advertising would obviously be a source of revenue if this 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:10.439 thing were to progress beyond you know, the the initial phase. 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:14.440