[Discuss] Google Glasses

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

I've had these on my wishlist since I first saw the MicroOptical display
that Thad Starner demoed at one of our meetings back in 1997.
$7,000 was too much to justify a purchase, and then MicroOptical
went out of business.

It would be great if we could have a demo of these at a BLU meeting.



On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Tom Metro <tmetro-blu at vl.com> wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> Richard Pieri wrote:
>>> The only thing that I can see killing the clamshell style notebook is
>>> the elimination of the physical screen. ?Someone devises a way of
>>> projecting the display into the air above the keyboard...
>>
>> We already have ways of projecting onto eyeglasses, We've had BLU
>> meetings on this. Effectively these are implemented as heads-up
>> displays...
>>
>> ...I don't know why some companies don't invest in these.
>
> Google Glasses are real, will use two 0.52-inch micro displays
> http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/google-glasses-real-micro-displays-20120223/
>
> ?The basic idea is that some kind of wearable computer that displays on
> ?the lenses of a pair of glasses. As incredible as that sounds, there's
> ?not a whole lot of tech out there that really fits that description
> ?closely. The idea that these lenses would act as displays for
> ?information seems really interesting...
>
> ?...we've been told the glasses are real, and that we will more than
> ?likely be seeing a prototype of them at Google's developer conference
> ?this June.
>
> As Jerry mentions, the concept isn't novel, but there are still
> organizations investing in this technology.
>
> Not aimed at quite the same use case - supposedly this set of glasses
> will incorporate a video camera, and will make use of augmented reality.
>
> ?Basically, you have glasses on your head with a camera facing out, and
> ?that camera's job is to record your gestures. When you're browsing,
> ?you reach your hand out and glide through the air like you are
> ?touching the content being shown to your eyes, and that controls your
> ?navigation. The display is transparent, so even if you are looking at
> ?something, you aren't losing sight of the outside world.
>
>
> ?-Tom
>
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