Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by nickbilton » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 4:05 PM UTC

On Wednesday, Google gave people 20/20 vision about a secret augmented-reality project called Project Glass. The glasses are the company’s first foray into wearable computing.

Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses
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Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by mladenkovacevic » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 4:28 PM UTC

Youtube promo of how it might work (is this for real or just a concept? looks too good to be true) http://youtu.be/9c6W4CCU9M4

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by 9k9 » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 4:29 PM UTC

Everyone would go crazy with the ability to check a news feed 24/7. I suppose we'd have to find a way to adapt to it as there are some pretty awesome advantages.

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by orblivion » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 4:36 PM UTC

9k9 wrote: post #3

Everyone would go crazy with the ability to check a news feed 24/7. I suppose we'd have to find a way to adapt to it as there are some pretty awesome advantages.

I keep hoping that the next real revolution will be a way we can decrease the amount of data we get. I can't conceive of how this would work even on a theoretical level, but I hope someone figures it out.

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Post by heyrhett » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 4:38 PM UTC

Why would the largest advertising company in the world want to place a screen between my eyeballs and reality?

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Post by DasIch » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 4:41 PM UTC

Augmented reality glasses, self-driving cars... Google is becoming a really exciting and interesting company. It will be interesting to see how Apple will react to this given that they are the ones claiming to revolutionize consumer technology every couple of years.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 4:43 PM UTC

orblivion wrote: post #4

9k9 wrote: post #3

Everyone would go crazy with the ability to check a news feed 24/7. I suppose we'd have to find a way to adapt to it as there are some pretty awesome advantages.

I keep hoping that the next real revolution will be a way we can decrease the amount of data we get. I can't conceive of how this would work even on a theoretical level, but I hope someone figures it out.

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Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by jeffpalmer » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 4:43 PM UTC

This has the potential to be huge, especially since it's the brainchild of Google. One thing I noticed is that they didn't showcase object recognition of any type in the promo video. When I heard they were testing these glasses, Google Goggles is the first thing that came to mind. It would be really useful to auto-search objects by simply looking at them and issuing a command. I'm sure it's on their roadmap, if it's not already live in the glasses alpha/beta product.

Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 4:45 PM UTC

mladenkovacevic wrote: post #2

Youtube promo of how it might work (is this for real or just a concept? looks too good to be true) http://youtu.be/9c6W4CCU9M4

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Re: Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by joejohnson » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 4:45 PM UTC

DasIch wrote: post #6

Augmented reality glasses, self-driving cars... Google is becoming a really exciting and interesting company. It will be interesting to see how Apple will react to this given that they are the ones claiming to revolutionize consumer technology every couple of years.

Real artists ship. I'm very excited about all of Google's cool new projects, but they have a history of shooting themselves in the foot. If these technologies are so far along, why not build a consumer version and get people to pay to be testers?! Then iterate on the concept and keep improving it through successive versions. But that's Apple's game.