Google Glass May Have an Afterlife as a Device to Teach Autistic Children

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/technology/google-glass-device-treat-autism.html

by lil-scamp • 7 years ago

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melling2• 7 years ago

It also has a life as a business solution:

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-glass-enterprise-edition-2-...

tyingq2• 7 years ago

"Google's Glass customers and partners currently include AGCO, DHL Group, HB Fuller, and Sutter Health."

A decent start, but that's not really a list that suggests it will be anywhere near as significant as Google hinted 6 years ago.

melling2• 7 years ago

They seem to have more than that:

https://www.google.com/glass/partners/

inanutshellus• 7 years ago

i still want one :)

ocdtrekkie• 7 years ago

Explorer Edition units are mostly useless, but they're pretty cheap these days. Mine's good shelf decoration, so I don't intend to ever give it up.

bookofjoe2• 7 years ago

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m...

bookofjoe2• 7 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20464724

0xcde4c3db3• 7 years ago

That is, a device to train autistic children to communicate "normally". Not a method for more effective teaching in general.

While obviously a biased sample, the #ActuallyAutistic reactions I've seen so far are... not enthusiastic (roughly: Holy shit, again with the "eye contact" obsession; do you think we haven't figured out where your eyes are?).

The more articles like this I see, the more I get the whole "nothing about us without us" thing.

byuu• 7 years ago

Pretty much, yeah. Neurotypical folks want to feel comfortable, and see the way of addressing this as teaching neurodivergent folks to power through it and live in constant stress and anxiety for their benefit. No willingness to meet half way.

elliotpage• 7 years ago

Agreed - while dressed up in technology (that flopped, for good reason) this is simply another way to try and force people into being "normal".

There is no need for this device, or the motive behind it, to exist.

sjg0072• 7 years ago

More kids have ASD then ever before and there is a shortage of therapists. If this technology can make a clinical impact then it is a good thing. It broadens access to treatment. Much like voice technology like Siri and Alexa may help as well.

jtmcmc• 7 years ago

there are a lot of other uses for glass outside of this

Abishek_Muthian• 7 years ago

Google Glass project would never be completely dropped by Google, even though it didn't succeed as an accessory now; it has very obvious medical use cases.

As BMI/BCI tech improves, especially w.r.t vision a spectacle (aka glass) is the obvious choice to put a camera for input on the face; a spectacle with processing power like Google Glass is a convenient advantage.

piokoch• 7 years ago

Google Glass is a great idea, but was sold to the wrong market. I believe there is a lot of niche markets that would really benefit from this - the police, augmented reality tool for museums/historical sites visitors, people with physical disabilities and many others (like the one mentioned in the article).

I am sure Google knew this, but they also knew that this is not something that would provide sufficient income from their perspective.

hkt• 7 years ago

Maybe that's all it ever was..

Google Glass May Have an Afterlife as a Device to Teach Autistic Children

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