... excited by the possibilities of Creative Commons' licensed Digital Glasses, Harbin Bubble Glasses and Google Glass.
For my Harbin ethnographic work and 2nd, actual / virtual, Harbin, anthropological book, I see Digital Glasses {Harbin Bubble Glasses?} as the 'field site' of a virtual Harbin in my next book, - for ethnographic comparison with actual Harbin - where you can be at home in your bathtub, for touch, as well as a relaxation response meditation, and also be at Harbin. I haven't yet heard of a virtual world in Google Glass, - with avatars and group-voice and group-text, and a currency, as well as a group-buildability - as if to combine OpenSim or SL with Google Earth in Google Glass, and I suspect Google Glass will be well-designed and well-coded, with speakers near your ears, making it a better choice in the beginning than Creative Commons' licensed Digital Glasses, or Harbin Bubble Glasses, both of which perhaps World University and School can help eventually develop, along with virtual worlds in Google Glass.
Creative Commons' licensed Digital Glasses seem, too, to have much merit, but I don't yet know where Creative Commons' law - http://creativecommons.org/ - stands with regard to physical objects. I'm glad we have a new form of law for sharing, however, - and thanks to the information age.
Brainwave headsets and digital glasses
I'm also excited about the possibilities of brainwave headsets and digital glasses. To combine brainwave headsets with Google Glass could open all kinds of possibilities. For example, it's now possible with http://brainfingers.com, which I've tried, to choose letters from a keyboard on a screen without words or gestures, or play simple games, but the user has to be very relaxed (e.g. Stephen Hawking's is too agitated to use this). And with Tan Le's brainwave headset, you can rotate a digital object on a screen, move it farther and closer, and make it disappear. (See videos below).
What happens in 20 years when we reverse these processes and bring them into the brain and bodymind itself? Will be able to create great pleasure, or even for two to interweave narratives together in an OpenSim or Second Life environment, in symbols, musical motifs or dreams, all without words or gestures? These seem like fascinating possibilities.
Digital glasses as data sources into a massive, interactive, movie-realistic, virtual world?
And will we all be able to contribute ever increasingly accurate and complete data into an enhanced Google Earth cum OpenSim/Second Life, as we all stroll around planet earth with Google Glass or C.C. Digital Glasses? Perhaps WUaS will be able to help develop this when we eventually become financially operational. Cool.
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Some related WUaS, wiki pages ...
Wearable Electronics -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wearable_Electronics
Virtual Worlds -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds
Google -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Google
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I'm curious, too, to begin to plan for how WUaS will navigate spinning off companies, such as virtual worlds for digital glasses, and C.C. digital glasses' producers, learning lessons about this perhaps more from entrepreneurial MIT and Stanford, which I think of as quite entrepreneurial as great universities, compared with Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Cambridge, for example.
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Brainfingers: Hands-Free Computer Access Solution
http://brainfingers.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_pAc0ttR0U
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See, too -
'Brainfingers: Hands-Free Computer Access Solution,' 'Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves,' 'Mind Control Device Demonstration - Tan Le,' World University and School's 'Brain Computer Interface,' wiki, subject page, MIT, Linked these 3 videos to my recent poem here, 'Monsieur Nikhil Bannerjee, master raga player, moved me along the way,' Excited about these possibilities for virtual Harbin
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/01/flower-coral-brainfingers-hands-free.html
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