Smartglasses

That might be a good option just to see where you are and what's happening.

And if you have maybe Google Glasses or not Google Glasses, Meta Glasses, might be another option for you too, just to get feedback.

So.

And I know this is probably going to be very helpful for this individual because it sounds like they already have their wheelchair and stuff, but I'm thinking back to the conference that we went to a couple of years ago and I needed a scooter and I was able to call in advance and have that reserved.

There's a few different species, which I think are interesting, and I want us to go into a couple of them in depth, which I think will be informative.

One of the biggest problems, obviously I want your opinion on this too, is the Segway had this problem and Google Glass, you remember Google Glasses.

And Mark Zuckerberg just brought his latest out,

AI Glass.

I was invited on.

It's all thanks to the team at Blind Ambition, by the way, and, uh, the amazing people there, and also Triple Tap Tech, who were approached, uh, by the BBC, to talk about smart glasses from the blind perspective, because it's very important, of course, we get our view out there, uh, as much as possible.

Um-

No, they're all creepy and for perverts.

[laughs]

Exactly right.

Like, we keep hearing about, you know, there's gonna be an explosion of wearables and, uh, in our, the community, what we're interested in, in smart glasses, so there's gonna be so many available.

And I think, yeah, okay, that is ...

So let's say that you're looking at Samsung's earbuds that are optimized for the Android Samsung use or like the Apple earpods.

They not only come with audio and I'd say noise suppression capabilities, but they also have additional features such as physiological sensing and that is where people are looking more into it right now so it's not just about giving you that perfect audio experience it can also like a lot of monitoring on how you are like you know breathing and what's your blood pressure is looking like because it maintains constant contact with your body you know a lot of the sensing that you can do on apple watch but the apple watch is on your hand and if there are physiological sensings that is more specific to the above nature earbuds and smart glasses are the best positioning to do that so the recent thrust by the manufacturers have been to expand more into that area that's one And the second thing is that people recognize that these head-based variables have limited physical space.

So how you can expand the app, right? So another thrust is that, you know, how you can do non-device sensing.

For example, with Apple AirPod, you currently have 3D.

I believe, head nodding, so that you can give additional input without touching the airport itself, right? These are the additional features that people are looking into, like the manufacturing side, so that the users have more things with the head-based wearables, besides just having the smart glasses on, just like listening to

audio.

And what are the types of research questions academics like yourself will ask about this area?

One thing that your meta is doing, it's bringing down the VR hardware cost still within the consumer range.

[gentle music] We expect to be watched when we're online, to be tracked, to be surveilled.

But in real life now, we have ordinary people wearing smart glasses, and cameras tracking us in shopping centers, and even in our vehicles.

It is impossible to go anywhere or do anything these days without feeling like we're being watched, because we are.

So what rights do we have, even if it's the authorities doing the watching? My name is Rae Johnston, and welcome to Download This Show on ABC Radio National.

I definitely want to get a little bit more into what authorities can access about us and how they can follow us, as opposed to the general public.

But I just wanna step back a little bit first.

Uh, Josh, can you give me an update on what has colloquially [laughs] become known as the pervert glasses rules? So these smart glasses that people are, are wearing and filming people in public, I'm aware that there's been a few different updates with local councils, but where are we at today? You know, where, where are our rights in regards to f- opting out of being filmed by someone wearing a pair of modified Ray-Bans?

I mean, the question...

You wrote recently about AI moving off the cloud and onto our devices, literally into our pockets and onto our faces.

For example, smart glasses, which I-- sitting across the table from you, I see you're wearing the Oakley Meta glasses.

You know, we've seen robots.

What do you think is actually going to work, and what do you think is still science fiction?

[lip smacks] I think none of what you talk about are science fiction because they're already here.

It's just that- How quickly we can find a commercial, uh, aspect to it.

I've been wearing these smart glasses for more than a year.

In fact, I own four pairs of smart glasses.