[danso]

I think the biggest scare that will happen is when geocoded data of the value-added type is overlayed upon your view.

Imagine these scenarios:

* The gun owners address map re-oriented so that when you look at a house, you see a "gun" symbol over it

* Property value over each home (available from county assessor)

* When Facebook makes another privacy-opening-oops and people with their wall/statuses set to semi-public have a little bubble over their head with their latest status update ("I'm so drunk from yesterday!").

* When you look at people, or their children, they automatically assume you are videotaping them. And someone out there is going to write an app that checks your name against a sex-offender registry and will notify anyone if you have a similar name to said person (guess you'd have to reveal your name somehow...which you might through Google Plus and the required real name)

[swalsh]

> Property value over each home (available from county assessor)

As someone looking for a home, in sometimes unfamiliar neighborhoods... this is a great idea! Zillow has something similar in their iphone app, but this would make it a lot more convenient.

[jacquesm]

Check out 'layar' for a real live demo of just this.

[hahla]

All of these things are already possible to implement, google glass just makes it more accessible by keeping it in your field of view the entire time your wearing the device.

[danso]

Yes, all of these things are already possible to implement, in the same way that it was possible to construct a webpage in which you listed your activities and doings and manually update them -- and track your friends who have their own webpages -- long before Facebook came along.

The idea isn't the point here, it's the ease of use and the visceralness of it. The gun maps debate is a prime example of this. Anyone could go to the government office and get those records. And if you were a thief, you would have much more use out of them as a straight excel spreadsheet which you could cross-reference with other property records...or at least just do quick name searches across a large Excel file.

But as soon as a newspaper put a bunch of red dots on the map (which made it nearly impossible for a user to find anything more than who has a gun and who lives at that red dot without clicking manually thousands of times), the New York state legislature is hot to pass a law to ban those public records.

Usability and location is much more than just "additional features".

[darkarmani]

> And if you were a thief, you would have much more use out of them as a straight excel spreadsheet which you could cross-reference with other property records...or at least just do quick name searches across a large Excel file.

Are they using this to steal the guns or avoid the houses with guns? Owning a dog is probably the single best way to dissuade break-ins if you are that concerned.