Passion is a better master than discipline.
Like Shahbaz, I can’t help thinking about They Live whenever I read about Google Glass. Steve Mann furthers this point with his idea that clerks and functionaries have the ability to be free but often pretend to be enslaved by their malevolent overlords (a.k.a. managers.) “Questioning and deconstructing the rules becomes a new art form.” And Mann uses his version of Glass, the same way Rowdy Rodey Piper used his glasses to see through these artificial rules and get to the deeper meaning. Unfortunately, Mann comes across as more of a paranoid weirdo than a John Carpenter anti-hero. He is so caught up with the damage unwearable surveillance technology does to our psyche, ignoring the much greater threat posed by all portable and particularly wearable technology. This article (http://www.technologyreview.com/review/524576/glass-darkly/?utm_campaign=socialsync&utm_medium=social-post&utm_source=twitter) really illuminated some of these points for me (ie: face recognition software, driving with Glass, the general uneasiness created by Glass in a social situation ) and although I’m sure these problems will resolve themselves over time, I wonder how quickly this tech trend will catch on in its early stages. My only real question is relating to the Follow Me series, where a man captures an image of his girlfriend in front of multiple landmarks using Glass. His girlfriend’s face is never shown. With glass, are we going to want to record other people wearing their glass? Will it be like asking people to put away their phones while you’re taking a picture? Or is that an infringement of your rights like Mann would argue, equivalent to asking someone to take off their seeing glasses when you consider how Glass could be helping someone with colourblindness, or another visual disease, see the world in an more standardized way? Will their effect wear off as more and more people get Glass, or will it create interesting new art/design projects featuring a collection of Glass wearers?
Finally, this Toronto gallery project in AR seems interesting: http://infinitynow.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/creative-augmented-reality-digital-art-from-napoleon-brousseau-toronto/
I may be looking at your question from an overly literal viewpoint, but the idea of removing your glass comes back to a question of what is more important to people: the comfort of others or tradition. I have been practically blind for most of my life and I NEED my glasses to see, but, again, for most of my life, I have been taught to remove my glasses before taking an important picture (whether for aesthetics or lens flare; I don’t quite know). Tradition says that, in order to get a good picture, I must be unable to see the camera. So, would colour-blindness be a good excuse? Only if one’s comfort is more important than wherever this tradition came from.
Thanks for the tip about the gallery AR – if I have time before class I’ll print out the image, download the software and we can try it.