Google's "Project Glass"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4"]Project Glass: One day... - YouTube[/ame]
Pretty freaking cool, thoughts?
Also image of hud display itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4"]Project Glass: One day... - YouTube[/ame]Pretty freaking cool, thoughts?
Also image of hud display itself.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/250453/google_augmented_reality_glasses_expected_by_years_end.html
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/google-to-sell-terminator-style-glasses-by-years-end/
Here is the wired article on it that also came out today.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/epicenter-google-glass-ar/
How are you supposed to focus on the display at such a close proximity?
I already have a hard time focusing on my nose without getting all blurry eyed, let alone text at that distance or closer, and we're talking about black and white text here, let alone colors that mis-mash together.
So far, we have HUD for bike helmets, but even those are 'clipped' on from the outside to giver greater depth for reading, and are flaming red colors on a black background.
I don't see how this can work honestly. And please, don't tell me the BS about 'focal' distance and bifocal tangents which only requires it to be 'fixed' once per person to get it working, it doesn't fly.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/google-project-glas/
Sony apple and IBM also have something just as juicy coming
Maybe is could be?
But then it will need to be multi-layered with a plethora of refractions and prism based light bounce to make things look 'right', and just like Dead-Space 2, this is BS, since we still don't and won't have the technology to simply compress highly function items in an almost paper thin foundation.
Not to mention, we currently live in an age of flimsy tech. one simple touch and bam, it breaks down. Glasses have really gotten worse in the last few years where thin frames literally bend if worn for more then a few months, not everyone has the cash to go on a monthly visit to get their glasses focally aligned.
If Google really has found a way to make this work, then I don't know what to say, but this will be the next big thing since...well...I don't know...the internet?
cool tech though
The tech is called VRD Virtual Retinal Display and Ambershee's correct it projects the image directly onto the iris.
Some resource:
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/vrd/anim/MRS.htm
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/vrd/anim/eye.htm
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/vrd/anim/brain.htm
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/vrd/project.html
I can't seriously express have irritated and disturbed this video makes me. This subject deserves no smilies.
Just imagining all the stuff he does being done on a smartphone makes me nauseous already (being interrupted all the time and giving priority to trivial stuff).
Now imagine someone browsing facebook on that. "Scroll. Scroll. Scroll. Scroll." hahaha
That's EXACTLY what I thought.
Is this what normal people are like? do they insist on sharing with the world where they got an interesting cup of coffee? I'm socially retarded I guess, so I don't really get all this. To a much lesser extent with facebook and twitter as well.
I just don't like the level of dependency with this kind of stuff, that and the fact that 90% of the information being shared is bullshit.
That said, interesting tech if it's possible.
and that fucking song pisses me off now, and every other 'soft' melody that is so commonly placed in these damn videos.
it's just cancer, bro... psh.
like ravenslayer said, cool tech but i love privacy. Dudes asking where i'm at and knowing where i'm at kills my stealthiness.
I imagine an AR FPS with your friends would be pretty fun. Like paintball but without the paint and stinging from getting hit, not really limited in play space either.
An AR LARP would be very cool. Add in some scripted enemies, or have them acted out by other people.
I would think overlaying people's custom avatars over their bodies would be possible.
Re-texturing and adding 3D models to an existing environment would be neat. Virtual tagging. Sharing personalized AR layers of the real world with your friends.
Seeing onsite AR re-enactments of numerous historical events though time would be sweet. Participating in one seems like it would be fun too.
The possibilities are pretty endless.
Seriously though, I'm very interested in the augmented reality tech.
We're pretty much already doing all these things but in smart-phone format, so it's not like we're going to be overwhelmed with it.
Eyes were made to receive photons, implication would be evolutionary success!
You mean just like X number of years ago it would be laughable to see someone walking around town staring at their phone as it guides them around pointing out the nearest fast food joints?
If it works it will take off and go from laughable to must-have in no time at all.
Think outside the box!, heck, think your way out of the corner in that box!