Google Glass could be the virtual dieting pill of the future

This has nothing to do with Google Glass. The article describes an augmented reality system. Glass is not AR -- you don't look <i>through</i> it. It's just a display that is unobtrusively visible in a small part of your vision.

Great technology, but a couple of things make me doubt if their findings reflect real life.<p>The processed images are patently deformed and unnatural. The whole thing works only if you have a blue backdrop and even then filtering the fingers out fails. The guy in the video makes it sound like it works only for Oreos (in Japanese), and this video shows the experiments were probably conducted only with pineapples and/or Oreos[1]<p>Given that experiments would have to be conducted in such an artificial setting, how reproducible are the results in real life scenarios? These questions could from the paper but unfortunately that is behind a paywall. Maybe someone with access could clear that?<p>[1] <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzFNWLL0l-o" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzFNWLL0l-o</a><p>EDIT: Reading it back, this sounds like I am trying to dismiss their technology though that isn't what I am getting at. I'm just wondering how well this could be applied IRL.

Looks like a nice trick. I suspect that they might get a similar effect if they made Oreos appear a sickly green in the field of vision.<p>While the sizing hack is neat, I think there are a lot of other ways to process images of food to make people eat less of it. I'll leave that to everyone's imagination.

How is it supposed to trick you, when you can feel exactly how much you ate when you put it into your mouth? Not to mention you KNOW that everything you're looking at is bigger, because you put the AR headset on in the first place to do exactly that.

Except that there's no WAY that Google Glass will be able to seamlessly overwrite the image of an object in the environment. It's going to be a HUD, not a Rainbows End-style real-world-reskinner.

Or, you could just adopt a paleo-diet and dispose of these mind-tricks.

What? Why? Anyone who would install this app already has enough willpower to just <i>not</i> eat the oreo and anyone who actually needs this would probably just uninstall it.