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Google X reveals "Project Glass", an augmented reality visor
We've all seen what happens when technology becomes portable and connected to everything around us -- we get fatally bad driving and people walking into water fountains -- but what if your smartphone could be a visor, glasses or even a pair of contact lenses? This is what Google has been researching and no, it's definitely not an April Fool's joke.
"Project Glass" is a blue-sky project by Google's mysterious research and development arm, Google X. The project aims to augment your everyday experiences by superimposing a layer of visual indicators directly onto your field of vision. The HUD-like apparatus would keep you connected to your friends, provide data about your surroundings and potentially do anything your smartphone can do, but merely at a glance. This visual layer would be fed to your eyes through some device like a visor or contact lenses, giving you translucent alerts, messages, maps and more.
These types of projects tend to be hush-hush, top-secret stuff, but Google claims it wants the public's input on what they would like to see with such technology.
We think technology should work for you -- to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don’t.
A group of us from Google[x] started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment. We’re sharing this information now because we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input. So we took a few design photos to show what this technology could look like and created a video to demonstrate what it might enable you to do.
Please follow along as we share some of our ideas and stories. We’d love to hear yours, too. What would you like to see from Project Glass?
Source: Project Glass, Google+
Eerily reminiscent of Caprica's "holoband" emitter, Google's concept of what the final design may look like shows a visor-like device hovering over the brow-lines of people more symmetrical than most. It sounds like science fiction, but there's no reason it has to be a visor though -- and you probably won't have to be a model to wear it. In fact, Project Glass team member Barbak Parviz, has been working on contact lenses which may be able to accomplish the same thing.
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Trillionsin said:
Yes, but can it detect power levels?
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yRaz said:
trillionsin said:Yes, but can it detect power levels?
that comment is way under 9000
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The future frightens me. Technology is just as much a poison as it is a medicine.
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VitalyT said:
Guest said:The future frightens me. Technology is just as much a poison as it is a medicine.
What doesn't kill you...
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LMAO @ him checking in
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I don't really want much to do with the social media aspect, but I've always wanted the driving style heads up display you see motorcycle racers use and of course, the superimposed display most first person games use nowadays.
Agreed with the guest as well... lol
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I can't wait until I can finally buy a fully functioning visor like Geordi from Star Trek: TNG
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I want it.
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@ 1st guest
Poison? Medicine?
Gotta get in where you fit in and if you don't fit in anywhere then maybe the poison's what you're looking for. lol
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I don't imagine this being good for people's eyes.
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Skynet when?
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If any company can make it work, it's Google.
This is the next step in AR. I just hope Google will be able to keep this.
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Yeah you can look and feel like some future cyborg mega geek walking around with that on.
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This is awesome, but I don't know how you're going to select when you want to open something. Do you just look at the symbol? 'Cause that could get quite annoying, if you're looking at something in the distance and menus keep opening.
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trillionsin said:
Yes, but can it detect power levels?
You need to train more, learn to sense other's power levels and let go of your technology. Embrace the good side like Vegeta, then you get to marry Bulma, but then you will get corrupted and go nuts at a world fighting tournament..
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Yeah, it's basically useless if it can't even detect power levels..
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They forgot to include full screen popup ads with 30 seconds wait until skip screen.
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Great... "Just follows this one weird old tip" ads can now fill your every waking hour.
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As long as I can see my health bar I'd get one of these...
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Doctor John said:
Amazing bit of kit, but if you thought texting while driving was dangerous......
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The matrix was suggestive of these things. The part where smith and agents can become anyone. Here is the spill. In the future your left eye will get an IP address and police will be able to tap in if they need to record a crime that you are witnessing or committing. No warrant needed curtesy of your patriot act.
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Guest said:
The matrix was suggestive of these things. The part where smith and agents can become anyone. Here is the spill. In the future your left eye will get an IP address and police will be able to tap in if they need to record a crime that you are witnessing or committing. No warrant needed curtesy of your patriot act.
you know, at first this made me laugh and then I thought about it. While your vision is a creepy exaggeration, it is in the right direction. The govt continues to give us more and more, and the more they want to 'help and protect' us the more they will want to make sure we're following their rules. If the govt is responsible for your healthcare, education, social security, job, income and general welfare, then you better belive they're going to want to know when you're doing something wrong.
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I can see so many applications for this. P o r n for example.
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Guest said:
I can see so many applications for this. P o r n for example.
Thinking of the Augmented Reality applications for porn is making me laugh.
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Would be creepy if someone hacked those glasses and the hacker can see what you can see & track where you are.
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