"Google Glass Banned at Seattle Dive Bar"

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Seattle bar bans Google Glass - Silicon Valley Business Journal

Google Glass banned at Seattle dive bar

Mar 11, 2013, 11:04am PDT

Preeti Upadhyaya

5 Point Cafe, a dive bar in Seattle, has banned Google Glass, the high-end specs that put your smartphone's capabilities on your face. The dive bar's reason? Privacy concerns, including the fact that the glasses can be used to discretely take video.

The bar outlined its problems with the glasses in a Facebook post here.

"For the record, the 5 Point is the first Seattle business to ban in advance Google Glasses. And an a** kicking will be encouraged for violators," the post reads.

5 Point owner Dave Meinert told GeekWire that the culture of the bar, which he calls a "sometimes seedy, maybe notorious place," is the reason he's keeping Google's heads-up display out.

"People want to go there and be not known...and definitely don't want to be secretly filmed or videotaped and immediately put on the Internet," Meinert said.

While the 5 Point Cafe might be the first business to outright ban Google Glass to protect customer privacy, it is unlikely to be the last as the discrete augmented reality technology becomes more prevalent. Is Google worried about a privacy backlash?

In an e-mail, a Google spokesperson told me, "It is still very early days for Glass, and we expect as with other new technologies, such as cell phones, behaviors and social norms will develop over time."

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^^ Real talk...this facebook dialogue is , the commentary.....but is likely a historical document in the sense....this is first of many many many many conversations about where these glasses/and others like will it be allowed.......................

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This thread deserves triple play status ...

 

[NSSVO]

this technology shyt is getting too real

 

[Y.K.]

They do have a point.

 

[Binary]

I'm getting a pair, fukk a phone

 

[Anothergirl]

good for that bar for standing up. enough privacy infringement is enough.

 

[Doin2Much Williams]

Seattle establishments treating the game like its acne...



cuz they being ProActiv about shiit.



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[The_King_of_Everything]

Technology is def becoming OD.

 

[BruhMayne]

Seattle Bar That Banned Google Glasses Admits It Was a PR Stunt - Forbes

But was privacy really Meinert’s primary concern? As it turns out, the 5 Point already secretly videotapes its patrons with surveillance cameras – as do most businesses in Seattle (and elsewhere across the country.) Meinert admitted on KIRO, though, the post was mostly a PR stunt. “Part of this is a joke, to be funny on Facebook, and get reaction.”

Obviously, it worked.

 

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Google Glass: The opposition grows | Internet & Media - CNET News

Google Glass: The opposition grows

"Stop The Cyborgs" is a new site that attempts to bring a balanced trepidation to the unbalanced idea that we'll all be walking round with Google's outer brain strapped to our faces.

by Chris Matyszczyk
| March 15, 2013 12:21 PM PDT

The opposition will congregate in dark corners.

They will whisper with their mouths, while their eyes will scan the room for spies wearing strange spectacles.

The spies will likely be men. How many women would really like to waft down the street wearing Google Glass?

It won't be easy. Once you've been cybernated, there's no turning back. Which is why the refuseniks are already meeting in shaded corners of the Web.

One site is called "Stop The Cyborgs." It claims to be "fighting the algorithmic future one bit at a time."

The opposition will congregate in dark corners.

They will whisper with their mouths, while their eyes will scan the room for spies wearing strange spectacles.

The spies will likely be men. How many women would really like to waft down the street wearing Google Glass?

It won't be easy. Once you've been cybernated, there's no turning back. Which is why the refuseniks are already meeting in shaded corners of the Web.

One site is called "Stop The Cyborgs." It claims to be "fighting the algorithmic future one bit at a time."

A sticker being offered on the "Stop The Cyborgs" Web site.

Still, those whose intelligent pleasures reside in online shopping will be overjoyed that there is a "Stop The Cyborgs" store.

There you can buy all sorts of goodies to protest your coming psychological annihilation.

There is hope for these clearly human anti-cyborgians, though.

Firstly, there's the very basic human sense of style that might reject Google's glasses as devilishly ugly.

There's an even greater hope: global warming might destroy us first.

 

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Banned in N.J., is Google Glass allowed in Philly casinos? - Philadelphia Business Journal

Now that Google Glass will likely be banned at all New Jersey casinos, is it acceptable at casinos in other states?

Google Glass Banned At Google Shareholder Meeting - Slashdot

Tight security restrictions at Thursday's Google shareholder meeting led even the company's much-hyped Google Glass technology to be banned, infuriating a consumer watchdog group who accused the tech giant of hypocrisy. ... oh shiit ...

This is even more telling, this link is keeping track of many places banning GoogGlass. ... hospitals, school gymnasiums, driving in your car, movie theaters ...... worth checking out.... Tracking: The Ban On Google Glass | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

Porn Apps Banned From Google Glass
Porn Apps Banned From Google Glass

The company that released the first pornographic app for Google Glass on Monday later found out Google had changed its policies to prevent sexually explicit "Glassware" content from being used on the device.

"We don't allow Glassware content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material," the Glass Platform Developer Policies now state. "Google has a zero-tolerance policy against child pornography. If we become aware of content with child pornography, we will report it to the appropriate authorities and delete the Google Accounts of those involved with the distribution."

Google told ABC News the policy was updated last week. Jesse Adams, CEO of MiKandi, the company that developed the "T*** & Glass" app, said in a blog post Monday his company had not received a notification from Google about the changes but would change the app to comply with the updated policy.

"When we received our Glass and started developing our app 2 weeks ago, we went through the policy very carefully to make sure we were developing the app within the terms," wrote Adams. "We double checked again last week when making the site live on the Internet and available for install for testing during last week's announcement. We were not notified of any changes and still haven't been notified by Google."

Adams claimed nearly 10,000 unique visitors visited the app's website in the hours following its release, and a dozen Glass users signed up to use it.

"Besides point-of-view content, we're interested in Glass' potential to facilitate two-way adult interaction. For example, between long-distance couples, cam models and fans or strangers." MiKandi co-founder Jennifer McEwen previously told Mashable.

 

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Snapchat introduces video-catching sunglasses


Snapchat introduces video-catching sunglasses

Glenn Chapman•September 24, 2016

Snap Inc. shows their new Spectacles video-catching sunglasses (AFP Photo/HO)


San Francisco (AFP) - Vanishing message service Snapchat announced Saturday it will launch a line of video-catching sunglasses, a spin on Glass eyewear abandoned by Google more than a year ago.

The California-based company, which also announced it is changing its name to Snap Inc., said in an online post that its Spectacles will be "available soon," with media reports pegging the price at $130 a pair.

"We've been working for the past few years to develop a totally new type of camera," said the post by Team Snap.

"Spectacles are sunglasses with an integrated video camera that makes it easy to create Memories."

Snap earlier this year added a way to save images as "Memories," a shift for a service know for messages that disappear after being viewed.

Spectacles were billed as having one of the smallest wireless cameras in the world, capable of capturing a day's worth of "Snaps" on a single charge.

The sunglasses connect to Snap software wirelessly using Bluetooth or wifi connections.

Spectacles cameras take video from the perspective of wearers, boast a 115-degree field of view, and capture snippets of video intended for sharing at the service.

"Imagine one of your favorite memories," Snap said.

"What if you could go back and see that memory the way you experienced it? That’s why we built Spectacles."

Snap estimates it has more than 100 million users globally of the service for sending videos, images and text messages which vanish after being viewed. Some reports say it generates 10 billion video views per day.

- Braking Glass -

Google in January of last year halted sales of its Internet-linked eyewear Glass, which became available in the United States in early 2014.

The technology titan put the brakes on an "explorer" program that let people interested in dabbling with Glass -- hotly anticipated by some, mocked by others -- buy eyewear for $1,500 apiece.


The Glass test program was later expanded to Britain, but no general consumer version was released.

Glass connected to the internet using wifi hot spots or, more typically, by being wirelessly tethered to mobile phones.

Google Glass had been hit with criticism due to concerns about privacy since the devices were capable of capturing pictures and video.

Spectacles, expected to be in limited supply when they hit the market, would put pressure on GoPro, whose mini-cameras are designed to let people capture video of endeavors from personal perspectives.

GoPro last week unveiled new Hero5 cameras, a drone called Karma and a cloud-based service for editing and sharing video in the hope of lifting profits, which have been battered by competition from all sides.

GoPro became an early hit with extreme sports enthusiasts who used the mini-cameras to film their exploits, and went on to win over teens and young adults interested in sharing videos on YouTube and social networks.