Tech Expert Says Facebook Glasses Are Just Another Way To Ignore Human Interaction
By John Ostapkovich
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Many of us can get Facebook and other web services on our smart phones. How about if that type of information could perch on the bridge of the nose?
California-based Vergance Labs is fleshing out its "smart glasses" project, which can bring Facebook closer to your face. The glasses have wireless web access seen on a heads-up-display, plus cameras to do video of what you're up to, or facial recognition on someone you can't quite place.
Jennifer Rode, assistant professor at Drexel's iSchool, who studies human computer interaction, says this is not unexpected, but adds to concerns about being "alone together".
"Now the problem that Facebook projected on these glasses presents is all of a sudden I'm not going to be able to tell if we're sitting outside in nice weather in the summer, I can't tell if you're wearing your sunglasses or if you're wearing your sunglasses and paying attention to your Facebook chats and not me."
Rode says such augmented computing goes back to the 80's but now may be effectively disguised.
