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Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor

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Re: Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor

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Is Microsoft really developing or simply trying to get some patent to fight with google?

It looks like this was submitted (May 2011) before Google announced Project Glass (Apr 2012)

And people have been thinking about augmented reality for decades.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Damocles_(virtual_...

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I believe Google Lense would have a more bright future, than Google Glass. Google Lense may be a wireless lens screen which communicates with the smart device in your hand or pocket to show you app windows in multiple screens.

And the lenses would be installed into any glasses or how do you envision it?

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What these things really need is some way of being controlled directly by the brain. I don't want to be wearing goofy glasses and telling them to guide me to the pub. I just want to conjure up a rabbit to follow.

Hehe, I suppose that wont be hard in the nearby future (25 years). The glasses could have neuro-censors that would be in constant contact with key parts of both sides of the brain.

Re: Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor

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Am I the only one who thinks Google Glass is a bad idea?

We already trusted our virtual life to google (emails, what we do, etc). Are we sure that we are ready to trust our real(physical) life too?

Don't get me wrong... It seems like a cool project but I wouldn't use it, maybe I am getting too old :/

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