Google is working on a pair of augmented reality glasses that could ultimately replace smart phones. The interactive glasses can be controlled by voice and vision to make phone calls, take photos, and even give directions.
Google unveils futuristic augmented reality glasses
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Should make motorway driving interesting – oh, but maybe not with all the car pileups that this will cause.
Give the politicians and excuse to ban glasses for driving – all glasses of course as the poor old police would not be able to tell the difference.
Oh well – at least Google will know down to the meter when and where the accidents happened -perhaps they can make some money selling even more of our data to third party ambulance chasers.
Long live Apple!
Unquestionalby the future, gets rid of all the junk we currently carry about to access the rest of the world.
Power will undoubtably be a problem as with all devices. Some serious investment and innovation needed here.
Also I can see concerns about radiation having a wireless device strapped to your head 24/7. Could end up with the glasses tethered to an ancillary device strapped to the waist band for wireless and powerpack.
Worried about driving? I don’t expect to be doing any soon. The automated vehicle MUST come soon.
Apple watch out, Google could soon be eating your breakfast.
Hmmm… Reminds me of Microsoft’s approach (the 10K touch screen coffee table), think of what is possible, put it out there and worry about the usefulness later. It’s not a thought through product, more like a brainstorm. I can see some use in gaming less so in normal-life.
Not sure when to use them? check out http://www.brother.com/en/news/2011/airscouter/use/ Soon to appear with an NEC computer.
Lots of useful applications. Can’t come quick enough.
Stop to think about Google for a sec, existing autonoumous vehicles, lower traffic accidents caused by those that have no business driving in the first place. All autonomous vehicles have sole access to the inner lane 1 each vehicle communicating with the other, and if said vehicles were allowed speeds of 100mph or more; Bullet train Billions not needed. Now back to the augmented glasses once the autonomous vehicle has its destination programed sitback and enjoy, do research, surf the web, or just take a nap so that you are refreshed for the things you keep putting off in your daily life because you’re to tired. 🙂 See the future and embrace it. I’m a middle age technogeek and proud of it.
I have been talking about these glasses being invented for at least 10 years. They will be the way of the future. Once we work out how to use motion e.g. walking to power them it will be full steam ahead.
My next prediction is a phone inserted under the skin and powered by the magnetic fluxes caused by red blood cell movement. Impossible… perhaps at the moment but with nano-technology we will see many micro devices come on stream. The future comes next and I can’t wait to see what the next decade will bring.
I already have to avoid wandering pedestrians with white wires in their ears on a daily basis; Maybe I should trade my Suzuki in for a Harley Davidson with open pipes? But what is is going to be like if people can neither hear NOR see where they are going??!! Messy, I suspect…..
Possible on screen at 18 inches from the face, impossible for the eye to focus on sunglasses à 1/2 inches from it. But idea is funny..
In the last year I have been rear ended twice while stopped in traffic by a driver texting. Now I can get hit by them eye balling.
wonderful innovation…I look at the sceptic comments and wonder what the Wright Bros were told…I think we know. Essentially nothing new here its a combination of existing platforms into a hands free, see ere I am looking device. I will give Google the evolution strategy. Same technology Physiological interface, now the Blind see…hows them “Apples” What the mond can imagine.. man can build….Awsome leadership Google…..just make sure its intuitive to use and not leave feeling like….an engineer developed this….crap.
These will be perfect for driving. Guy in front of you tags a speed trap, big call-out comes up in your HUD, “4kms to speed trap” and you can see the approximate location in the distance. Can’t wait to get mine.
So people spend a fortune on laser surgery to be free from glasses, then they can spend some more to get them back and miss even more of the wonderful world that we can see in 3D, touch and smell without technology.
They’ll have to be called Google Goggles, surely. By the way, Alain, optics already exist to handle the focus issue.
Has anybody tried to focus on their finger if you hold it in front of your eye at the same distance as a your glasses lenses?
Now move it to a distance you can focus on and then switch between your finger and far field…..
I believe we have stereoscopic vision so if you try to do what the advert shows it will lead to a lot of cross eyed people, or a lot of blinding headaches.
Conceptually a nice idea, but human evolution is difficult to get round…