[Discuss] Google Glasses

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

http://goo.gl/Fd0Yk
Essentially there are a number of different companies who are competing
in this market. I have not looked into it lately, but MicroOptical was
based on requiring eyeglasses, another company had a laser directed to
your eye.

On 03/13/2012 06:29 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> 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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