Microsoft Granted Patent For Augmented Reality Glasses

another random user writes with an excerpt from the BBC about Microsoft's vision for augmented reality glasses: "A patent granted to the U.S. tech firm describes how the eyewear could be used to bring up statistics over a wearer's view of a baseball game or details of characters in a play. The newly-released document was filed in May 2011 and is highly detailed. ... Although some have questioned how many people would want to wear such devices, a recent report by Juniper Research indicated that the market for smart glasses and other next-generation wearable tech could be worth $1.5bn by 2014 and would multiply over following years." Noticeable differences from Google's version: two lenses, a wrist computer, and wires.

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In Store Shopping Assistance?

[Anonymous Coward]

Will this "augmented reality" be used in stores to help convince people to buy a Windows 8 phone?

Re:In Store Shopping Assistance?

[Nerdfest]

In copying everything Apple, Microsoft wants a 'Reality Distortion Field' and has to resort to hardware to do it.