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Google tests glasses that provide real-time
information
Thursday April 05, 2012 01:50:14 PM,
IANS
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San
Francisco: Google
has announced test of its "Project Glass", a pair of augmented
reality glasses that provides users real-time information right in
front of their eyes.
In a blogpost shared on Google Plus, the Project Glass team from
Google X, a secret Google research lab working on future
technologies like a space elevator, Wednesday asked people for
input, posting several design photos of the glasses and a demo
video to show what the glasses might enable users to do.
Rather than a pair of traditional glasses, the augmented reality
glasses is a solid metal band running across the brow line with a
small heads-up display on the right side, reported Xinhua.
According to the demo video, a man walks around the streets in New
York City, checking and sending text messages with friends, seeing
maps as well as information, taking pictures and video chatting
via the glasses by voice control.
The New York Times first reported the Project Glass in February.
It said at the time that the glasses was expected to go on sale
later this year. But a report from Wired magazine said that
Project Glass is still more of a concept than an actual product
and won't see an official release in the near future.
According to the newspaper's tech blog Bits, people who have seen
Project Glass said there is a misconception that the glasses will
interfere with people's daily life too much, but the glasses
actually free people up from technology.
"They let technology get out of your way. If I want to take a
picture I don't have to reach into my pocket and take out my
phone; I just press a button at the top of the glasses and that's
it," one person who has used the glasses told Bits.
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