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https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-unveils-artificial-intelligence-tool-real-world-searches-2022-05-11/

Google's second try at computer glasses translates conversations in real time

May 11 (Reuters) - The science-fiction is harder to see in Google's second try at glasses with a built-in computer.

A decade after the debut of Google Glass, a nubby, sci-fi-looking pair of specs that filmed what wearers saw but raised concerns about privacy and received low marks for design, the Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) unit on Wednesday previewed a yet-unnamed pair of standard-looking glasses that display translations of conversations in real time and showed no hint of a camera.

The new augmented-reality pair of glasses was just one of several longer-term products Google unveiled at its annual Google I/O developer conference aimed at bridging the real world and the company's digital universe of search, Maps and other services using the latest advances in artificial intelligence.

"What we're working on is technology that enables us to break down language barriers, taking years of research in Google Translate and bringing that to glasses," said Eddie Chung, a director of product management at Google, calling the capability "subtitles for the world."

Selling more hardware could help Google increase profit by keeping users in its network of technology, where it does not have to split ad sales with device makers such as Apple Inc (AAPL.O)and Samsung Electronics CO (005930.KS)that help distribute its services.

Google also teased a tablet to be launched in 2023 and a smartwatch that will go on sale late this year, as it unveils a strategy to offer a group of products comparable to Apple.

But Google's hardware business remains small, with its global market share in smartphones, for instance, under 1%, according to researcher IDC. Recently launched challengers in search along with ongoing antitrust investigations across the world into Google's dominance in mobile software and other areas threaten to limit the company's ability to gain steam in new ventures.

Alphabet shares fell 0.7% on Wednesday.

The reveal of the new glasses reflect the company's growing caution amid greater scrutiny on Big Tech. When Google Glass was demonstrated at I/O in 2012, skydivers used it to live stream a jump onto a San Francisco building, with the company getting special air clearance for the stunt.

This time around, Google showed only a video of its prototype, which displayed translations for conversations involving English, Mandarin, Spanish and American Sign Language.

It did not specify a release date or immediately confirm that the device lacked a camera.

Separate to the gadget, Google earlier demonstrated a feature that eventually would let users take video of store shelves with wine bottles and ask the search app to perform functions like automatically identify options from Black-owned wineries...

Wouldn't the glasses need a camera to identify things to begin with? Or at least something that functions like a camera that makes the difference negligible

I wonder if you can sort by other ethnicities.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Wouldn't the glasses need a camera to identify things to begin with? Or at least something that functions like a camera that makes the difference negligible

Good question.

I'd rather they just filter out everything except for potatoes

I can't wait for Google Glass to become mainstream so that there is a massive influx of POV porn

Wait, why are people expecting AR glasses without a camera?

NeonOctopus posted...

I can't wait for Google Glass to become mainstream so that there is a massive influx of POV porn

Fuck no I can't stand that stuff

Irony posted...

Fuck no I can't stand that stuff

you've never seen PoV lesbian porn

Irony posted...

Fuck no I can't stand that stuff

POV cowgirl where the titties are just bouncing in your face is sublime. U crazy

3:

cool start

I live in a mostly black area

with very low white population and I wish I knew which business were really blacked own instead of black exploited

I don't mind businesses that are white as long as they live here

stuff shouldnt be black and white but i think we do gotta level the playing field

Irony posted...

I'd rather they just filter out everything except for potatoes

No potatoes until you finish your carrots!

I dont think they are saying no camera, I think they mean that from the look of the glasses it isnt obvious that they have a built in camera. In other words, they are indistinguishable from a normal pair of glasses.

There was a horror movie filmed entirely in Google Glass 1.0

https://youtu.be/QTIwfN-4hZ4

Sonic Cannon posted...

*watches as Google gets millions of dollars from all the racist segregationists rushing to buy*

No shit. This sounds like a really bad idea.

Seems racist to make purchase decisions based on the color of the persons skin. Doesn't sound particularly content-of-their-character to me.

HroHybridCards posted...

I wonder if you can sort by other ethnicities.

I will only buy my pineapples from Inuit farmers in Nunavut.

Wasnt google the one that had problems with their search engine misclassifying black peopke because all their developers were white?

ShineboxPhil posted...

I will only buy my pineapples from Inuit farmers in Nunavut.

Dat's wat's up.

Jigglypuff posted...

Seems racist to make purchase decisions based on the color of the persons skin. Doesn't sound particularly content-of-their-character to me.

Yes. It is. That goes both for those who'll refuse to buy from Black businesses, and those who'll only buy from Black businesses. Though it's probably safe to assume the former will be the ones making heavier use of this feature.

What the hell is with the obsession with race?

Monolith1676 posted...

What the hell is with the obsession with race?

The USA is obsessed with race, gender and sexuality increasingly with each passing year. Some people seem to think each of those things completely define who they are as a human being.

Jigglypuff posted...

The USA is obsessed with race, gender and sexuality increasingly with each passing year. Some people seem to think each of those things completely define who they are as a human being.

And others also think that each of those things completely define who everyone else is as a human being.

To be clear, I am not disagreeing with what you said, I am saying there's two sides to it rather than just one.

Monolith1676 posted...

What the hell is with the obsession with race?

The goal is to keep people divided.

CreekCo posted...

The goal is to keep people divided.

That's a-bingo!

NeonOctopus posted...

POV cowgirl where the titties are just bouncing in your face is sublime. U crazy

Camera shaking around ruins it though.

bump

AloneIBreak posted...

Camera shaking around ruins it though.

There's plenty where they don't though.

Nazis: "I need that!"