Google Glass could get you thrown out of a restaurant. I saw it with my own eyes today!

Overmind One

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Okay, I was in TGI Friday's in Torrance tonight at 23420 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance, CA 90505. Around 7:30pm tonight, a man came in with his girlfriend, wearing Google Glass. His was fitted to his prescription glasses, and his girlfriend was not wearing them. Okay, this was interesting. When he walked in, I did not see or notice this couple. But I heard raised voices near the door and looked over and saw three or four patrons standing in the walkway inside the restaurant preventing the couple from going into the restaurant to sit down. A fouth person, a man, yelled across the room "Get the F%$@ out of here wearing those F#@$ing glasses before I knock them off your F$@#ing face!" (this is happy hour, folks!). The guy, a smallish Asian guy, looked visibly startled, and the security guy came over and asked them to leave the restaurant. They left. But the restaurant does not have any visible Google Glass ban that I could find.

For an hour afterwards, I heard people talking about Google Glass and heard everything from defence of them to jokes about wearing them during sex or putting them under a table to film up skirts to threats of violence if ever confronted with somebody wearing them.

Wow.

They are banned in the gym in the building where I work. They are banned in the office where I work. They are banned at my barber shop. They are banned at my local 24-hour Fitness and in the bathrooms and changing rooms on South Redondo Beach. Many stores and most restaurants are officially banning them in Riviera Village.

I do not think Google Glass will ever find a warm reception no matter where they are worn, but I am seeing people wearing them now. Anyway, I am making a sign to ban them in my home and I will not allow them to be worn in my personal spaces like my car. I will not have a casual conversation with somebody wearing them either. I just dont want them around me at all. I thought this was funny:


How does anybody not see why they would cause some people to become very upset if you are wearing them?
 

heisenberg

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How does anybody not see why they would cause some people to become very upset if you are wearing them?

You are right. I don't see google glass taking off at all. It is a fashionable item, but a dangerous one at that. The concern behind not allowing google glass in certain areas is perfectly understandable. It can and will be used as a way of video taping someone without their consent or knowledge. No one in their right mind likes to be watched like a hawk, but this technology will be used for the wrong reasons more so than it's intended purpose...which is what exactly? Loool? Does anyone know why google brought this out, other than being a fashionable item? This seems like it is for the extremely lazy person or a hipster. Another failed project by google that doesn't make the world a better place.How are these dumb bricks hired anyway? Who in their right mind greenlit this garbage?

...and 1500 dollars? HAHHAHAA
 
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Overmind One

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You are right. I don't see google glass taking off at all. It is a fashionable item, but a dangerous one at that. The concern behind not allowing google glass in certain areas is perfectly understandable. It can and will be used as a way of video taping someone without their consent or knowledge. No one in their right mind likes to be watched like a hawk, but this technology will be used for the wrong reasons more so than it's intended purpose...which is what exactly? Loool? Does anyone know why google brought this out, other than being a fashionable item? This iseems like it is for the extremely lazy people or a hipster. Another failed project by google that doesn't make the world a better place.How are these dumb bricks hired? Who greenlites this garbage anyway?

...and 1500 dollars? HAHHAHAA no...

I would not allow somebody to walk in my space with a videocam running and a microphone, so why Google Glass?
 

Gatefan1976

Well Known GateFan
They would be useful for my nan who is legally blind so she could still read, but besides that....
 

Overmind One

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They would be useful for my nan who is legally blind so she could still read, but besides that....

Um...Braille? Most buildings and businesses provide Braille. There is TTY and other devices that are not connected to the internet and capable of uploading in real time to the whole world. ;)
 

heisenberg

Earl Grey
I would not allow somebody to walk in my space with a videocam running and a microphone, so why Google Glass?

Because it's Google and people think Google is trying to make the world a better place, when they are not. Their products are rubbish.

I get the feeling Google were trying to compete with Apple. They were trying to bring out something hip and cool. You know, to try and stand out from the crowd. They wanted to be market leaders my guess is. Oh how wrong they were.

You can tell that Microsoft/Samsung and Google have all been trying to compete with Apple. I have nothing against competition, but Apple has always been a fashionable item, but people have fallen for their marketing bullcrap of being "superior' company. blah bla blah....


Smartphones are now becoming "obsolete" in terms of planned obsolescence. That's why we are now seeing smartwatches which will be coming out soon and everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. Yes, wearing a smartwatch will be pretty cool, that is if you want your 5 minute of attention, but when you look at it, it will do the same exact rubbish your phone does or will do. The sad thing is people will fork out more money just to wear it...I find it sad that most people don't realize that they are just after your money.

 

heisenberg

Earl Grey
I apologize if I am a little negative on this. I mean, I love technology and all, but technology is suppose to help the world becoming a better place. I feel repackaging stuff with a new paint job or a putting a prettier box, is just scamming the public.

It angers me when tech is used for the wrong reasons.
 
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Overmind One

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I apologize if I am a little negative on this. I mean, I love technology and all, but technology is suppose to help the world becoming a better place. I feel repackaging stuff with a new paint job or a putting a prettier box, is just scamming the public.

It angers me when tech is used for the wrong reasons.

Dude, I am just as negative, perhaps maybe moreso because I was not kidding about putting the sign in my home banning Google Glass. I will firmly enforce my right to privacy if confronted by somebody wearing them, or observing them wearing them in a forbidden place. The other side of the equation is that the NSA and others have been trying for decades to penetrate private spaces. Before the internet and backdoors and remote webcam and microphone and cellphone activation, they only had wiretaps. Now, they have complete audio/video taps through your cellphone's front or rear facing cameras and microphones (while docked or while in use), your built in laptop or desktop monitor with webcam, your location via wireless triangulation or GPS. Google Glass and the X-Box One both offered always-on video and camera surveillance...if need be. The public is not asking for this.
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Yeah, I'm sure at 93 she would pick it up easily :P

Recently blind? Most blind people learn Braille as a child in the US.
 
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heisenberg

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Dude, I am just as negative, perhaps maybe moreso because I was not kidding about putting the sign in my home banning Google Glass. I will firmly enforce my right to privacy if confronted by somebody wearing them, or observing them wearing them in a forbidden place. The other side of the equation is that the NSA and others have been trying for decades to penetrate private spaces. Before the internet and backdoors and remote webcam and microphone and cellphone activation, they only had wiretaps. Now, they have complete audio/video taps through your cellphone's front or rear facing cameras and microphones (while docked or while in use), your built in laptop or desktop monitor with webcam, your location via wireless triangulation or GPS. Google Glass and the X-Box One both offered always-on video and camera surveillance...if need be. The public is not asking for this.
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Recently blind? Most blind people learn Braille as a child in the US.

I feel the whole privacy/freedom battle is one we are going to lose.
 
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Bluce Ree

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Okay, I was in TGI Friday's in Torrance tonight at 23420 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance, CA 90505. Around 7:30pm tonight, a man came in with his girlfriend, wearing Google Glass. His was fitted to his prescription glasses, and his girlfriend was not wearing them. Okay, this was interesting. When he walked in, I did not see or notice this couple. But I heard raised voices near the door and looked over and saw three or four patrons standing in the walkway inside the restaurant preventing the couple from going into the restaurant to sit down. A fouth person, a man, yelled across the room "Get the F%$@ out of here wearing those F#@$ing glasses before I knock them off your F$@#ing face!" (this is happy hour, folks!). The guy, a smallish Asian guy, looked visibly startled, and the security guy came over and asked them to leave the restaurant. They left. But the restaurant does not have any visible Google Glass ban that I could find.

For an hour afterwards, I heard people talking about Google Glass and heard everything from defence of them to jokes about wearing them during sex or putting them under a table to film up skirts to threats of violence if ever confronted with somebody wearing them.

Wow.

They are banned in the gym in the building where I work. They are banned in the office where I work. They are banned at my barber shop. They are banned at my local 24-hour Fitness and in the bathrooms and changing rooms on South Redondo Beach. Many stores and most restaurants are officially banning them in Riviera Village.

I do not think Google Glass will ever find a warm reception no matter where they are worn, but I am seeing people wearing them now. Anyway, I am making a sign to ban them in my home and I will not allow them to be worn in my personal spaces like my car. I will not have a casual conversation with somebody wearing them either. I just dont want them around me at all. I thought this was funny:


How does anybody not see why they would cause some people to become very upset if you are wearing them?

You're putting a sign up in your home and your car? Do you have a revolving door to your place where people can casually walk in without invitation? :icon_lol:
 

Bluce Ree

Tech Admin / Council Member
I apologize if I am a little negative on this. I mean, I love technology and all, but technology is suppose to help the world becoming a better place. I feel repackaging stuff with a new paint job or a putting a prettier box, is just scamming the public.

It angers me when tech is used for the wrong reasons.

The purpose of Google Glass isn't fashion, it's to casually record one's day, which is another form of surveillance. This data goes through Google and is used, once again, to figure out your habits and interests to better target advertising.
 

Bluce Ree

Tech Admin / Council Member
... I was not kidding about putting the sign in my home banning Google Glass.

So, if someone comes into your home and the sign isn't up, would you be forced to allow them in with their Google Glass? :icon_lol:
 

Gatefan1976

Well Known GateFan
Google glass + Weapon system Intergration + Injected transponders on friendly troops.

Spray an area with lead and the gun will not fire when it detects friendlies within it's bullet trajectory.

Gotta love smart weapons :P
 

Overmind One

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Google glass + Weapon system Intergration + Injected transponders on friendly troops.

Spray an area with lead and the gun will not fire when it detects friendlies within it's bullet trajectory.

Gotta love smart weapons :P

GIVE them to the troops. GIVE them to cops especially, and MANDATE that they wear them. The ultimate Transparency. Why shouldnt we use them in a capacity where they could be useful and profitable to Google without invading our privacy. Use them to PROTECT us from those who use their power and lack of oversight against us and others.
 

Overmind One

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You're putting a sign up in your home and your car? Do you have a revolving door to your place where people can casually walk in without invitation? :icon_lol:

No, but I do have geek friends, early adopters who would buy this thing just because it's new, and exclusive, and they have the money to waste on them. The guy wearing them at TGIF appeared to have matched the blue frame of his Google Glass to his outfit (a light blue color). I saw a young woman wearing one with white frames, and yet another wearing them without actual glasses which looks more unnatural than those worn with actual eyeglasses.

The sign in my home is a statement and will likely become a conversation piece. Ill take a picture of it when I put it up. :)

I was looking this issue up last night, and found these:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/27/lost-lake-cafe-google-glass_n_4350039.html

Excerpt:

At Lost Lake Cafe, Meinert and business partner Jason Lajeunesse are standing by their no-glass policy, despite mixed responses from the local community. One customer plans to boycott the restaurant. Nick Starr suggested the manager who asked him to leave "be held responsible." But Lajeunesse told Forbes, "Right or wrong, there's no way we'd fire one of our employees for something like that. We'd much rather 86 an entitled-acting tech nerd."

10 places where Google Glass is banned:

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/top-10-places-that-have-banned-google-glass/66585/

On the list:

Banks/ATMs
Sports Arenas/Concert Venues
Locker Rooms/Dressing Rooms
Movie Theaters
Cars
Hospitals
Classrooms
Strip Clubs (had not thought of that one!)
Casinos (or this one)
Bars

Every hotel I called in Las Vegas (about 5 random ones on the Strip) said that they cannot be worn in the Casinos anywhere in Vegas OR Atlantic City NJ. Both the Spa and Morongo have banned them in their casinos too.

Entire states are seeking to ban them whilst driving...not good news for automakers who want to create sync capability in their cars for Google Glass.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...s-driving-bans-as-states-move-to-bar-use.html

The entire UK as banned them in ALL cinemas:

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jul/01/google-glass-banned-in-uk-cinemas

Not surprising. I think this sort of tech crosses a line.
 

Overmind One

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I feel the whole privacy/freedom battle is one we are going to lose.

I dont. I think a whole new layer of tech will create fortunes for people who create anti-snooping devices and strategies. Much like Norton and McAfee made fortunes on Microsoft's buggy, vulnerable software by creating antivirus. Or like companies that make radar detectors and bug detectors. I can think of at least three killer devices I would like to invent. :) (shhhhh....)
 

Bluce Ree

Tech Admin / Council Member
I dont. I think a whole new layer of tech will create fortunes for people who create anti-snooping devices and strategies. Much like Norton and McAfee made fortunes on Microsoft's buggy, vulnerable software by creating antivirus. Or like companies that make radar detectors and bug detectors. I can think of at least three killer devices I would like to invent. :) (shhhhh....)

The companies that make radar detectors also make the actual radars and anti-radar detector tech for law enforcement. They are the epitome of playing both sides.
 
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