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Sergey Brin Demos Google Glasses Prototype
MojoKid writes "Folks have been clamoring for more on Google's Project Glass and Sergey Brin — one of the co-founders of Google — is now burying himself in the R&D department associated with its development. Recently Brin appeared on 'The Gavin Newsom Show' with the prototype glasses perched on his face. The visit was actually a bit awkward as you can see in the video, as it's a lot of Brin and Newsom describing what they're seeing via the glasses with no visual for the audience. However, Brin dropped a bomb when he stated that he'd like to have the glasses out as early as next year."
I'll pair these with the hated headphones from the previous story, and occupy my own, private digital HELL!
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Never been known to fail..."
Every geek wants a pair of these yesterday. As soon as Google can get a version of them ready to go, I predict they'll sell like...well...not hotcakes, but probably like Android based phones.
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Here was see an early version of Google Glasses out and about! I can't wait!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
VR glasses are nothing new, the big question is whether this one will be actually affordable by the general public.
I'm wondering how these will fare compared to some of their sci-fi counterparts did, actually. So far the most interesting take on augmented reality I've read/watched has been from the series Denno Coil, but this sort of technology has featured in a few other dystopias, too.
Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
Or other way to demo what the user is seeing and send the signal to a nice big projector screen for Steve Balmer to scream about? I realize it is super small but this just seems like a pretty basic aspect. How do I debug the thing?
What would Richard Feynman do, if he were here right now? He'd do some math and he'd follow through!
If so, count me out.
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I'm tentatively excited about Google Glasses, but if they don't come up with some way to make it work for people with prescription lenses, I'm going to have to let the ship sail without me, I think. Never going back to contacts again, not even for groovy sci-fi VR glasses.
He's the freaking Borg. Please retire the Microsoft icon and apply it to Google. kthxbai.
Some states are trying (ineffectually) to ban texting while driving... any bets on how long it will be before the first muppet causes an accident/kills someone due to having his/her vision impaired by Google Glasses!
Bluetooth earpieces have been our for years and still look ridiculous. These are no different.
When I first heard of the Project Glass, I thought they had found a way of doing what some Japanese companies have been doing for a while...rather than displaying the image in *front* of your eye, they actually draw the image line by line directly *in* your eye on your retina with lasers. I still hold out hope that this is the long term goal of Project Glass, but who knows. A bit of reading Here
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Aside from looking like a confused refugee from the Borg, could someone work on some kind "styling?" There are several applications that this item, if not intrusive looking, would work nicely. I would think of it as a personal diary application.
Newer technology integrates the image directly into normal sunglass or prescription glasses lenses through optical waveguides to create an image focussed at infinity that is stable even if you're moving around.
Vuzix has already made prototypes and the lenses look normal - though they did have a projector on the side of the lens. It was technology developed by Nokia and to see how impressive it actually is, take a look at this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atTqT7z00Kc&list=UUXV7-Fjn7hdQcINo7-T3mWQ&index=1&feature=plcp
That's some video I got *through* the glasses at CES in January - And you'll notice that even though I can't keep the camera still, the image is rock steady within the active area of the glass lens. ( The lens is just a few millimeters thick ).
The newer technology looks almost holographic and can certainly be made to provide a 3D image...
Though if Google's glasses were really cheap, I'd still buy them. There's something to be said for a older but functional technology in a pair of glasses for $100 compared to the latest tech for more than $1000.
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This was news almost two months ago when he wore them here at an event for The Foundation Fighting Blindness.
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At 4:00PM (local time), we all put the glasses on and look into our old school kaleidoscopes = hourly DDOS?
These glasses are definitely coming.
From the video, they look small enough to be practical very very soon. Nice work, Sergey. :)
Presumably they will connect via bluetooth to a smartphone or keypad in your pocket for an easy finger-based UI. And of course there will be a voice UI, like we have now with a small & simple BT headset.
The big questions are a) battery life, b) how the various governments will assess this as a potential driving hazard, and c) whether Apple will steal Google's thunder by doing the same thing, only sleeker.
I, for one, will be happy to buy a set of these glasses if the price is right. Hopefully less than US$1000.
But can it read power levels?
What does this post have to do with reality television?
Are you working on getting laid ? You seem frustrated with life.
Interesting that the multi-billion dollar company that produces YouTube and things of that nature would choose some shitty no-name video player that can't even load properly.
If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits
This is the kind of device you DO NOT want plasma-burn-in in.
if this is all Silicon Valley has left these days... I'm heading to China....
Sergey's new clothes?
Certain kinds of tech such as bluetooth headsets, Segways look great on paper but make the user look like a complete dork. I think Google's glasses fit into that category too. Perhaps they will find a use in business, e.g. for people driving (as a kind of HUD with directions) especially for couriers, warehouses and so on but I see little utility for them in every day life.
The fundamental flaw with technology like this, built by a bunch of extremely smart geeks, is that it fails the "will girls laugh at me" test. And that is the death knell for all consumer technologies.
It's already been done.
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It's not healthy to care that much.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
I'm eager for a future when my glasses or contacts have some magic screen that can overlay high res holographic images in my field of view, and this may be a step in that direction. However, it looks like the kind of tech that is more of a complication than a convenience. I'm supposed to walk around with that stupid thing on my head, taking up 33% of my field of view with it's screen all the time just so i can surreptitiously take a picture? At least my phone is only visible when i need it's information. At other times, it's really unobstrusive in my pocket.
If I see you early adopters on the street, staring off into space, fiddling with cumbersomely tiny controls, trying to get your gps location on your goggles, i will laugh at you. Know though, that i appreciate everything you are doing to move this technology forward.
Yeah! OASIS is coming....
if it plays directly on your retina can they correct short /long sighteness problems via digital zoom and enhancement ?
I hereby declare it. (or you could call it a post-post-pc era, but the term post-pc didn't make sense in the first place).
I can't wait for google glasses! When is the official release date? More info at the www.googleglassproject.com
Im still waiting for the EyePhone.