Google Heads Up Display Coming By the End of the Year

kodiaktau writes "Google is working to deliver a heads-up display allowing users access to email, maps and other tools through a wearable interface. According to the NY Times' sources, the device will be available later this year, and sell for prices comparable to smartphones. 'The people familiar with the Google glasses said they would be Android-based, and will include a small screen that will sit a few inches from someone’s eye. They will also have a 3G or 4G data connection and a number of sensors including motion and GPS. ... The glasses will have a low-resolution built-in camera that will be able to monitor the world in real time and overlay information about locations, surrounding buildings and friends who might be nearby, according to the Google employees. The glasses are not designed to be worn constantly — although Google expects some of the nerdiest users will wear them a lot — but will be more like smartphones, used when needed.'"

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Googloid

[Jmanamj]

I will be plugged into the Google at all times. I will fear no evil for Google will be with me, and will guide me to safety. The Google provides divine inspiration, and is the light of the world. The Google protects. You should be plugged in to the Google. Otherwise you are a lesser bing. All hail the Google.

Re:Googloid

[game kid]

Otherwise you are a lesser bing.

I see what you did there.

Perspective

[StripedCow]

So now google is able to literally look through our eyes... great.

Re:Perspective

[JaredOfEuropa]

My thoughts exactly. I got exited at the prospect of practical AR glasses finally arriving on the market ("practical" meaning more or less affordable, and well designed so that you can actually wear them in public), but got disappointed when reading that it is Google releasing them. Remember that they will not just be looking, but analysing and interpreting as well.

Give them a few years to develop this further and combine it with their other data (face recognition for instance), and you get something like the following sitting in a Google server somewhere.
SUBJECT: John Doe (Google ID 1312.11.552.874.5)
EVENT: Observation of known person
OBJECT: Jane Doe (Google ID 7823.14.461.551.6)
Identified by tagged photo, 78 hits, average match 87%, confidence after cross-correlation 99.12%
DURATION: 14 seconds total, eye motion analysis breaks down as follows:
- face: 2 seconds
- chest: 5 seconds
- posterior: 4 seconds
- legs: 3 seconds

Re:Perspective

[93 Escort Wagon]

So now google is able to literally look through our eyes... great.

Listen, troll - stop the mindless Google bashing. Google Interceptors aren't scheduled for beta release until Q2 2016.

Re:Perspective

[Tharsman]

SUBJECT: John Doe (Google ID 1312.11.552.874.5)
SUBJECT AGE: 24
EVENT: Observation of known person
OBJECT: Jael Bate (Google ID 7823.14.461.551.6)
Identified by tagged photo, 1,264,243,452 hits, average match 87%, confidence after cross-correlation 99.12%
OBJECT AGE: 17 and 11 months
DURATION: 2 minutes and 9 seconds total, eye motion analysis breaks down as follows:
- face: 2 seconds
- posterior: 4 seconds
- legs: 3 seconds
- chest: 2 minutes

PEDOPHILE BEHAVIOR DETECTED, CONTACTING POLICE DEPARTMENT, ELECTRICALLY STUNNING SUBJECT UNTIL POLICE ARRIVAL.

Sounds interesting

[pseudofrog]

And six months after Google releases it, Apple will invent it.

Re:Sounds interesting

[Sqr(twg)]

And everyone will buy from Apple, because "wearing iGlasses" sounds so much more plesant than "wearing a Galaxy HUD".

Re:Sounds interesting

[ConceptJunkie]

And three years after Apple pre-invents it, Microsoft will re-invent it poorly, call it "innovation", completely botch the marketing and end up having to pull the product within a couple months.

First design image leaked

[Rhaban]

Here it is: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/685/locutus.jpg/

I'd rather have the glasses only ...

[Lazy Jones]

... connected to my smartphone. Perhaps even one without maximum privacy impact. Existing designs: terminally-incoherent.com blog

Re:No thanks, Google

[tomhudson]

It's inevitable, as I predicted here last August. But don't worry, you won't have to look nerdy.

Pretty much every electronic device can interact with your video SPEKZ, which can be anything from a pair of plain-jane NokiaSofts to the latest cool shades from Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL). Cars, streetlight surveillance cams, water meters, televisions, and even your clock radio are all talking to each other -- and your SPEKZ are piggybacking on their data streams. There's not a single laptop, desktop, smartphone or tablet computer in sight.

It's an amazingly seamless experience. The tiny twin cams on your SPEKZ let you share what you see with your friends and stream a copy to your home server. Your watch and charm bracelet contain sensors to detect your wrist movements and the muscles and tendons of your fingers flexing, all descended from Nintendo WiiMote technology.

As for driving with the future versions, it will be safer, since:they will give the driver full night vision, as well as the ability to display an enhanced view of traffic despite road glare, sun in the eyes, torrential rain, etc. It would be nice to see that deer well before it goes through your windshield.