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A Modest Proposal: Google Glass Filmmaking: Porn Redux

In the series “A Modest Proposal,” my colleagues and I will propose inventions and projects that I think are eminently doable and would love made real.

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In the series "A Modest Proposal," my colleagues and I will propose inventions and projects that I think are eminently doable and would love made real.

So I recently mentioned that Glass from Google, which helps people see what you see in a hands-free way that's simpler to use than a handheld camera, might lead to an explosion of first-person perspective films. Naturally, as is the case with pretty much everything related to the Internet, at least one porn studio noted Glass might be great for shooting porn.

As it turns out, technology journalist Arikia Millikan recently watched porn stars make the first-ever Google Glass porn.


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The future of Google Glass porn looks a bit hazy, as Google takes a rather dim view of it.

Charles Q. Choi is a frequent contributor to Scientific American. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Science, Nature, Wired, and LiveScience, among others. In his spare time, he has traveled to all seven continents.

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