Details of Google's Project Glass Revealed In FCC Report
Flozzin writes with news that documents published to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's website have provided new details about Project Glass, Google's augmented-reality headset.
"A test report describes video playing on the device alongside audio running to a 'vibrating element.' The description tallies with a patent filing suggesting it plays sound via 'bone-conduction' tech rather than earbuds. Developers are due to receive a test edition of the headset later this year. ... [The FCC's papers] describe data being sent to the small screen display via wi-fi and Bluetooth using a radio unit manufactured by Broadcom. The equipment is also said to be able to store video files internally and can be recharged by plugging a power connector into the computing unit on the right-hand arm of the glasses' frame. However, the most arresting detail is the suggestion that audio is provided without the user needing to wear headphones which might disturb how they hear ambient sounds. Last week Google filed a patent application entitled Wearable Computing Device with Indirect Bone-Conduction Speaker."
That is so freaking cool!
Why Cupertino is all a buzz about Google glass. Google had better watch out for patent trolls from mosquitoes who already have a patent on making my head buzz.
In a few years, I expect to see the rate of pedestrian-car accidents and people running into poles to go up by an order of magnitude. Sure, it overlays in your field of vision, so it's not like looking down at a phone, but we're just not meant to multitask with our senses the way this kind of device demands.
I don't even want to think about how many idiots will drive while using such devices.
It'll be interesting to see how addictive this technology becomes, especially as many people already can't be separated from their smartphones. One of the more thought-provoking things in Vinge's novel Marooned in Realtime (about the pace of technology accelerating towards a singularity) is that human beings from later in the 21st century feel disoriented and sluggish when disconnected from wearable technology that provides them 24/7 with sources of information.
I would buy a pair in an instant. Most of what I do on my phone is read things, so what better than having it in front of your eyes? Also, completely private personal movie viewing. Four people could with in a room and watch four different movies without any external devices if they wanted.
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Google reinvents the Bone Fone
No prior 'art' here?
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/bone-fone/
Google Glass is no more augmenting reality than a TV set is.
If it were rendering also the view behind it so there was no loss of vision, then it would be augmented reality. As it is it's the same as if you strapped your cell phone on an arm attached to your head a foot out or so.
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...was described in Ray Bradbury's last Martian Chronicles story, the Million-Year Picnic. The destruction of the Earth and its sudden radio silence is received by the main character through a watch radio that can be heard when you press it against your noggin.
I'd love if I got onto my motorcycle and it would link up with these glasses and give me a display of my speed/rpm's, GPS, and incoming call/msg notification. It'd keep me more focused on keeping the rubber side down and also from stopping every few hours to check if I missed calls. Also if the bone conduction works it could play a bit of music for me while I'm riding.
I use a hearing aid, and it massively irritates the one working ear I have. But a non-surgical bone conduction hearing aid? One that might give me some semblance of binaural hearing without turning my ear canal into a mass of pain?
Where do I sign up and what percentage of my soul do they want?
is google getting into the adult industry? :p
In a few years, I'll have a google care with my google glasses and my car can worry about polls. -_-
Does anybody know if the google glasses can be worn over a pair of prescription glasses? Myopia and presbyopia are common and not everybody can wear contact lenses.
The patent application linked was filed in October 2011.
It looks like it was just published by the PTO last week after a non-final rejection on all claims.
Imagine if someone hijacks the link to the display. This could be just the thing to revive the Rick Rolling community.
In genearl I love the latest greatest technology, but google glass kind of freaks me out.
So, assuming these things get popular, anyone sort of concerned that now everyone has a camera recording their every move 24/7? Or worse yet, it's going to be indexed an searched and tracked by Google?
Sure, crime will go down - after all, would anyone want to rob anyone where a yell would bring dozens of cameras recording someone get mugged/raped/etc on the street? Or have dozens of cameras recording every face, so you can tell when that sex offender may be breaking their conditions (in other words, a boon for law enforcement when they have dozens of cameras and angles that can pinpoint anyone at any location).
Then there's the somewhat more ... private side, given there'll be dozens of cameras watching you coming out of that ... adult entertainment establishment.
I'm not quite sure society is ready yet for a technology that really puts everyone in the spotlight - where there's a camera on you every moment you step outside your house. Compile the results of dozens of cameras and people would have a pretty good track of your movements even if you only appear for a few frames in every glasses. Between law enforcement, Google ad tracking, insurance companies, they'd be really interested in your whereabouts, your activities, and even what you eat and do...
Or paint your face...
The ability to read a book or watch tv without disturbing the other half will be worth the premium! Now if anyone can point where i can register my interest.
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Typo in the summary - it's boner conduction they're using.