By John D. Sutter, CNN
(CNN) - Looks like we're all about to get way more familiar with the concept of "augmented reality."
According to a report on The New York Times' Bits blog, Google is developing a set of glasses that will display digital information on top of the real world. Or, for the pop-culture inclined, they're making "Terminator" glasses.
Here are some details from the report, which CNN has not confirmed:
According to several Google employees familiar with the project who asked not to be named, the glasses will go on sale to the public by the end of the year. These people said they are expected “to cost around the price of current smartphones,” or $250 to $600.
The people familiar with the Google glasses said they would be Android-based, and will include a small screen that will sit a few inches from someone’s eye. They will also have a 3G or 4G data connection and a number of sensors including motion and GPS.
A Google spokesman declined to comment on the project.
The blog 9 to 5 Google has what it says are more details about the functionality of the glasses:
One really cool bit: The navigation system currently used is a head tilting-to scroll and click. We are told it is very quick to learn and once the user is adept at navigation, it becomes second nature and almost indistinguishable to outside users.
This is a concept that's been popping up in the world of tech-futurism for years now. There are a number of augmented reality apps - Layar, Wikitude and plenty of others - that use a smarphone's camera to overlay an image of the world with digital bits of info. Wikitude, for example, puts information about cultural and historical landmarks on top of camera images to help travelers get a better understanding of their surroundings.
Perhaps a more seamless way to do this would be with glasses - since you could get this kind of data all the time, without opening an app and putting your phone in front of your face. Google isn't the first to toy with this concept, but when a big technology player like Google throws its weight behind a new idea, it tends to go from sci-fi to mainstream much more quickly than it would otherwise. For now, the Times says Google doesn't expect people to wear the glasses all the time:
The glasses will have a low-resolution built-in camera that will be able to monitor the world in real time and overlay information about locations, surrounding buildings and friends who might be nearby, according to the Google employees. The glasses are not designed to be worn constantly — although Google expects some of the nerdiest users will wear them a lot — but will be more like smartphones, used when needed.
Look for these types of augmented reality projects to continue pushing forward.
Some researchers are already experimenting with contact lenses that could display digital information. The info would appear to float in the air - above reality.
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What a fantastic post! I am often tnriigued by other people see me compared to how I see myself. What do I like about myself? Well, physically I like my eyes and I am tired of not being able to see them because they are always behind glasses so I am on the phone right now inquiring about laser eye surgery. This is something I have wanted to do for years. Was this answer helpful?
Well first off let me say that i am a doctor of sorts. The awsenr to your question is quite simple really. Most doctors in the field of optical surgery have a genetic anomaly in their 11th X chromosome. This defect does not allow a successful optical surgery to take place. Most of these doctors choose their field of work due to their own diagnosis of this gentic disease and they long to correct the problem with the current lasik surgery. Which reminds me of an experience i had while i was an intern at NASA. While designing a prototype partical accellerator a rogue gravitron escaped from the accelerators magnetic pole and damaged the retina of my dear co-worker Dave Lavery. Because of his damaged 11th chromosome he could not have the surgery procedure and was left with no eyesight in his left eye.If you have any questions email me atgood luck on your adventures and god speed.
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Where's my hover board dammmmmit??
Where is my flying car?
One more step away from reality
These sound like a good idea, until Anonymous hacks a bunch of them to float a Guy Fawkes mask in front of everyone's face. Or the Laughing Man Logo.
If it is networked, it can be hacked.
Guy Fawkes, still the only man to enter Parliament with honest intentions.
I'm GaGa over Google! Way to go!
- Awesome! You have to let us know how it goes. I want Lasik SO bad but am scared to death. I hate my sgasles AND my contacts.
Hope all goes well.
I hope Google intends to integrate Google Goggles into the glasses as well...as if it isn't obvious that it should be there.
They should actually make Google Goggles do something, first.
the terminator (or govenator) wore Raybans. the head up display was just shown for our benefit. he has a microchip for a brain so didn't need to see all that target data.
The glasses were actually Gargoyles.
I don't get why they'd use head-tilting as gestures. That would look silly to an onlooker. It would make more sense to track eye movements that is not so obvious. Squinting movements would zoom out, Wide eye movements to zoom in, looking to the left would scroll left, looking to the right would scroll right, looking up would scroll up, looking down would scroll down, blinking would click, holding your eyes shut for an amount of seconds would take a picture, ect... There is definitely promise to this technology however I think Google is limiting it's possibilities with head-tilting gestures.
In 1998 I was part of a focus group that taked about what computers would be like in 2015. One favorite idea was that we would wear a comptuer on our hip, like a sony walkman
, and it would plug into glasses to give you a HUD and be voice activated. Looks like we were not too far off.
good forsight, but no plug in on the hip computer required, it will all be in the glasses
"The navigation system currently used is a head tilting-to scroll and click." People already look stupid when they walk by you talking to themselves (obviously into their cellphone's earpiece).... now I have to walk by people talking to themselves while shaking their head repeatedly like a valley girl?
Wow, technology is really making us look stupid.
Oh... and I can't wait for the first neck injury lawsuits from this one.
I'm sure these will be launching in April.
If people don't want it they wont buy it and the product will tank. I for one would be interested as long is it didnt come with Google tracking every move i make and pushing web ads in my face.
Are you serious?! It's GOOGLE! Why do you think they are doing this?!
Sounds like Google wants to take their evil one step closer of being able to low jack into your mind. They're just going to try and pass it off as some cool shades but there won't be anything innocuous about it.
How does it feel to be paranoid 24/7?
Well first off let me say that i am a doctor... of sorts. The awnesr to your question is quite simple really. Most doctors in the field of optical surgery have a genetic anomaly in their 11th X chromosome. This defect does not allow a successful optical surgery to take place. Most of these doctors choose their field of work due to their own diagnosis of this gentic disease and they long to correct the problem with the current lasik surgery. Which reminds me of an experience i had while i was an intern at NASA. While designing a prototype partical accellerator a rogue gravitron escaped from the accelerators magnetic pole and damaged the retina of my dear co-worker Dave Lavery. Because of his damaged 11th chromosome he could not have the surgery procedure and was left with no eyesight in his left eye.If you have any questions email me at good luck on your adventures and god speed. Was this awnesr helpful?
Glasses? Pfft! I'm still waiting for my SQUID.
Google has the Google Goggles app for Android - which will scan the live feed of your cell phone camera looking for things it can identify and notify you.
This is probably a souped-up version of that.
Forget the HUD, I want X-ray glasses.
Do the words "low-resolution built-in camera that will be able to monitor the world in real time and overlay information about locations, surrounding buildings and friends who might be nearby" mean anything to you people?!?!? Do you not see that this technology will extend Google Maps Street Scenes right into your offices, bedrooms and bathrooms? Do you not realize that this technology coupled with Google's new privacy policy which says in essence "We will take every piece of data you generate and sell it to anybody that will pay for it without your knowledge or consent" means that Big Brother is here, and HE IS YOU!!! God save you people from being this gullible!
you are a paranoid moron.
I think it is more likely that something like this will be used for the good of Government, Big Corps, or Big Brother instead of the good of the people. Maybe he isnt so paranoid.
Google is a big corp, so obviously that's one that will benefit. It's not like they are taking people unaware. If you don't think the benefit you'll gain from these glasses is worth purchasing them, then don't. But for those people who want to broadcast everything they see to their Google+ friends, then they can do that.
And why does reality need augmented? This is one more veil of tech for geeks to hide behind from the world. It's bad enough that everyone walks around now with their heads bent over their previous screens.
Welcome to the devolution of man.
Heads are bent now. Soon backs will hunch and men will be forced to walk on all fours once more. The Apes will rise once again and proclaim loudly, "ALL HAIL CEASAR!!!"
Well first off let me say that i am a doctor... of sorts. The awsenr to your question is quite simple really. Most doctors in the field of optical surgery have a genetic anomaly in their 11th X chromosome. This defect does not allow a successful optical surgery to take place. Most of these doctors choose their field of work due to their own diagnosis of this gentic disease and they long to correct the problem with the current lasik surgery. Which reminds me of an experience i had while i was an intern at NASA. While designing a prototype partical accellerator a rogue gravitron escaped from the accelerators magnetic pole and damaged the retina of my dear co-worker Dave Lavery. Because of his damaged 11th chromosome he could not have the surgery procedure and was left with no eyesight in his left eye.If you have any questions email me at good luck on your adventures and god speed. Was this awsenr helpful?
I never asked for this.
So it is all about you, then?
That's my line damnit. *I* never asked for this.
Maybe they'll be the new "beer goggles" giving nasty, fat a$$ chicks (and gingers) a chance at getting some play. Oh, or fat a$$ gingers. Ugh. I like the other readers idea of a "virgin app", but you realize that's about as useful as a "unicorn locator", right? All chicks be wh0re$.
With a comment of this caliber I bet you've never had a real date and you still live in your parents' basement......
Nice stuff there. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and bet the whole farm, the ONLY dates you get are paid for ahead of time. "Just leave the money on the dresser Mr."
I'm going to bet that you live on a FARM, and the only dates you've ever had are your sisters.
Rise of the machines has begun
i'm getting my implants tomorrow
"Barney Google, with the GOO-GOO-GOOGLEY EYES!"
Yes, googley eyes are finally here!
I'd buy em if the glasses can use night vision or infrared.
and a zoom function.
We Already HAVE an Augmented Reality Device – Its called a Sony Vita – GAMES are already Written which OVERLY upon an IMAGE of what is in front of the Player taken with the device's built in Camera.
You might have a point, if only you could communicate in coherent, complete sentences. And make sense.
The first augmented reality device was any android phone.... Why would you mention the Vita? Are there already Vita fanboys? Google Googles (the app) has been around long before the Vita. As for games....there are dozens of examples in the android and apple markets.
The Vita came to the game late, and is only doing what another device already did a year or more ago.
The OP meant 'overlay' IMHO. It would seem he got overly excited...or something.
I've got it, let's just make virtual reality, reality and make the "real" world virtual, OK?
Yeah, because this seems like suuuuuuuuuuuuch a bad idea. Get real. This is innovation. This is technology. I love it. Go live in a country where technology is almost non-existent, if it will make you happier.
As if texting and driving weren't already bad enough, now we'll have people behind the wheel who are totally disconnected from reality as they space out behind their glasses and probably kill thousands in car crashes. Aptly named glasses, Google. Flippin' morons.
This is the same thing I thought upon hearing about this. The idea behind the glasses may be cool, and all, but it will cause serious problems, especially with drivers who will use it regardless of the risk. Humans are very poor at judging risk, and we tend to think, "Nothing bad can happen to ME."
Yes, accidents will happen. Any technology that is a fundamental change from the past will require at least a human generation to work out the social implications and liabilities. Please, don't halt progress because you're afraid of change. People like you whined about how cars would scare all the horses.
It shouldn't be that hard to disable the functionality at x mph and return them to simply shades. Besides, the people using those glasses to crash are likely to be texting and fumbling with their ipods already.
I am all for the Google Goggles! They are going to add to the legacy that is Darwinism!
That's why Google is working on the self driving car. Look it up. Soon, we will all be passengers while the cars drive themselves, with our Google Goggles on, seeing pop up ad after pop up ad while we're riding to work.
Walk into a bar, put on your Google Goggles, it checks everyone's face and then does a FaceBook look up. Above their heads appears an indicator that shows where their relationship status is.
If that's the only thing it ever does, they'll sell millions.
Do some reading up on the possbile complications associated with the surgery, and you can pretty much figure it out. Although it's not a high percentage, some folks experience halos and double vision afterwards. It also increases the likelyhood you will need bifocals later on. Opthamologists make their living using their eyes, and they aren't likely to take any chances with messing them up. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's not a good option for other folks, but it could end their careers- so they stick with glasses. It's not much different than a singer with a deviated septum electing not to have the nose job because it will change how their voice sounds. For you or I, that's not a big deal. But when you make your living as an opera star- well, that's a different story. You aren't going to do anything you don't absolutely have to do, because it could mean an end to your career. Opthamologists take pretty much the same view of lasik surgery. Was this answer helpful?
I think we should hand out these for free to al queda and overlay a path to their virgins, but it really leads to the pit in Sparta that people can kick them into for a price.
I think you should take your bigoted agenda and shove it
Bigotted agenda?!
THIS IS AMERICA!!!! *kick*
Bob, Al Queda isn't a race, it is a group with an agenda, that being to kill innocent people to forward their agenda. How is it bigoted to want to get rid of those people? i guess whites who want to get rid of the KKK are bigoted too? TYHOOYA, brother.
Hi,LASIK or Laser-Assisted In-Situ Keratomileusis is a 30-minute healthcare prceudore used to treat vision problems due to nearsightedness. LASIK is a very popular vision correction prceudore and involves making a surgical incision in the cornea. The patient is given numbing drops, after which a suction ring is placed over the eye. The surgeon cuts a small flap in the center of the cornea using a knife called a microkeratome and folds this back to create an opening. The laser is then directed inside the eye, vaporizing the tissue and reshaping the cornea for accurate focusing. The lasering actually lasts about just 30-60 seconds only. The flap is then replaced. The healing process is a lot faster in LASIK. This prceudore reduces a person%u2019s dependency on glasses and contact lenses and thereby improves the quality of life.Asian countries like india, singapore , thailand etc are the best places for lasik surgery.regards,Annie Was this answer helpful?
To be blunt they won't work well. The technology is not there for this sort of system. You may see a few adopters but think back to Apples newton.... good idea way too soon for the hardware.
How is it not there? If you mean a completely independent set of glasses that perform like this on their own then yes. But realistically I think we're going to see Google Goggles (the product) as a bluetooth peripheral first, relying on an android phone for the processing power and 3G/4G connectivity.
The app is there in various forms (google goggles app and games). Glasses with lcds and cameras have existed for many years. Add bluetooth and it's done. Take a 5 year old pair of "spy" glasses with lcds and a camera, redo them with today's technology and it would allow space for a bluetooth chip.
What's next? Interactive games. Kids will be able to raise digital pets, which other users will be able to see when they wear the glasses and are in proximity to the pet's owner. After that, digital fights- throwing fireballs at each other. Other options? Digital "auras", or digital text above the head of another user. We'll have a digital world overlaid over the real one. Getting outside and walking around & playing with friends will have a whole new meaning. Other benefit- put fake versions of the glasses on schizophrenics and everyone will just assume that they are playing a game online!
This could be a godsend for alzheimer's patients. If they can write an app will help them recognize friends and family instantly that could really help. It could remind them when to take pills, where they are etc.
Why not do something way more useful with this technology. Make something that does away with eyeglasses and auto focus on everthing from 1 inch to 1 mile. Auto compensate for astimatism too. Then put your google overlays on that.
*Astigmatism
I believe those are called cybereyes to take your idea further. It's not a new idea. No one wants to where glasses if they don't have to. I like your idea but it compete's against laser eye surgery.
Forget "Terminator" glasses. i am still waiting on Geordi La Forge visors!
If Apple makes them, they'll be iGlasses!
Sheeple-vision?
With all the kneejerk sour grapes complains about apple products by antifanboys, you have to wonder which is the more brainwashed demographic; People who buy and use what they want and don't worry about it, or the avarice poisoned complainers.
Here's a thought – SOME people prefer Apple products because they think they're better! Android is a complete mess from a user interface standpoint, and many people don't like that.
Uh oh, Google fanboy alert.
Wow! Did it take you all day to think of that one?
Thank you Matt for informing everyone that his eye's were what gave him the HUD, the glasses were just stolen from some biker who thought he was top dog (but he really wasn't).
But can these glasses find Sarah Connor using google earth?
Hi, Troll here, The Terminator only wore glasses to blend in. It was his eye's that gave him his bad a$$ vision.
I think this could be the first step toward something amazing... First it was 3D glasses, then augmented reality phones, now this, soon to be images projected on our retinas(check out Microsoft), and eventually... contact lenses.
Hm – are they going to have an active link to Google Earth?
where are the glasses?? nice post cnn, all i see is a boring phone
Did you try reading the article (doofus)
This will be neat! All they will have to do now is add a good camera to the frames that will allow us to zoom in and see things the human eye could not. I could have Eagle eyes, or Infrared eyes! I like where this is going... The only thing I would worry about is would it mess your vision up?
Hi,LASIK or Laser-Assisted In-Situ Keratomileusis is a 30-minute healthcare pcreodure used to treat vision problems due to nearsightedness. LASIK is a very popular vision correction pcreodure and involves making a surgical incision in the cornea. The patient is given numbing drops, after which a suction ring is placed over the eye. The surgeon cuts a small flap in the center of the cornea using a knife called a microkeratome and folds this back to create an opening. The laser is then directed inside the eye, vaporizing the tissue and reshaping the cornea for accurate focusing. The lasering actually lasts about just 30-60 seconds only. The flap is then replaced. The healing process is a lot faster in LASIK. This pcreodure reduces a person%u2019s dependency on glasses and contact lenses and thereby improves the quality of life.Asian countries like india, singapore , thailand etc are the best places for lasik surgery.regards,Annie Was this answer helpful?
CNN, just call it "augmented reality". You don't have to compare everything to a movie.
Let me get this straight. We've got an article about GOOGLE with the main picture of a iPHONE. This makes A LOT of sense. This is the more inaccurate article I've seen yet.
It's demonstrating an existing augmented reality application.
And since GOOGLE, not APPLE, released the first augmented reality app (google googles) it's an even bigger point of showing how in love CNN is with Apple.
They show an Iphone in an article about Google, developing an augmented reality device that might use things they learned releasing the FIRST augmented reality app.
CNN shows us a recently developed IOS game for a picture. Lol. Gotta love iCNN!
It makes perfect sense to me. Apple habitually steals ideas and technology from other companies, then markets it as their own. Why should this be any different?
Yeah, just like Apple stole Android. Er, wait...
Or let me see...Mac mouse and UI stolen from Xerox. IPhone stolen from any other smartphone manufacturer, IPAD stolen from windows tablet PC's. MacTV stolen from any other set-top box manufacturers. The Pippin well, just sucked...though they may have gotten the idea from Amiga. Apple doesn't innovate. They take other peoples ideas and make them effortlessly usable and aesthetically pleasing (for those who use electronics as fashion accessories).
...resistance is futile...we are jao...we are you...jao will be assimilated...[|)*_}<
I believe this might end up what happened in the movie the "Jerk"...
For the win!
Google – Goggles!!
Great... that's what we're all going to call them now
Google Goggles
I see it as being the same reason plitsac surgeons often look like they've never had plitsac surgery themselves. They know it's risky and and can often have bad results and it's not worth it for them to take those kinds of chances.
I'M THROWING MONEY AT THE SCREEN, BUT NOTHING IS HAPPENING.
hahahaahahah
Get ready for an epidemic of headaches. I did research i this area when I was faculty at the University of Kentucky. It sounds cool, but it is absolutely killer on your eyes. Even with training (what the military does), limited exposure is all that is possible. the second issue is that unless the background you are looking at is plain, like a white wall, it amplifies the problem. The third issue is that your eyes can only focus on either the display or your environment – i.e. you can't pay attention (visually almost not at all and cognitively not very much either) to your surroundings and the display at the same time – driving, walking, etc. Even with Googles money, these problems are not really "solvable". Now, a direct interface with the eye or optic nerve would grab my attention ...
In "look-at" displays you are right. These head sets don't display the external world. Like holding an iphone about 1" from your eyes. . These have been on the market, but will fail.
The "REAL" virtual displays will be "see-through" – allowing real world observation wth virtual projection – either overlays, CNN, a PDF.. These will "float" in front of you – but focused at or near infinity so that your eye's accomdation allows you to see both the projection and real world without changing focus.. Like a HUD (Head up Display) on cars and jets.. Styling – no geek factor, comfort are key design areas..
excellent answer
Maybe someone could invent glasses that view the image on your retina and automatically adjust the lens to make glasses that more perfectly fix your sight and adjust themselves as your eyes age.
Then what should be the cost, since they'll be the only glasses you'll ever need? What about the style of the frames? Won't those be outdated? Think before posting, please.
I like his idea and i want them. I buy "classic" frames anyway, they never go out of style. Think before you insult somebody's post.
His idea is good and why can't you have your own imagination instead of shooting others down. disappointing
You have been Judged 'Me' – thou art an offensive idiot and must be a real hoot at parties.
Oh, yeah, and onther thing... My question wasn't answered....
One last thing... I don't post for your approval. I post the truth. It shall set you free. Besides, I don't see how my original post is insulting. And about the parties, the women hover around me, cause I's cool! Ha, ha ha ha ha.. Haters!
You won't be able to drive a block without somebody blindsiding you because they were just about to beat level 10 of Angry Birds on their Google glasses and didn't notice your car sitting there.
You're right. Even people walking down the street will be running into lamp-posts, fire hydrants, etc. Or stepping in front of trucks. Would certainly help with the Darwin awards, of course. They'd have more material than they could use.
I agree. Now I have to worry about some young idiot male or female killing me, the wife, and my two children with another electronic stimulus device while driving.
Yes, lots of crashes, with people saying "I didn't believe there really was a wall there!"
Finally, google is inventing something.
Obviously they should call them "ogles".
will they be "Google Goggles"?
These will be a huge hit. Heck... If people are willing to wear those dorky Bluetooth ear pieces for their phones, then they can be convinced to wear ANYTHING.
Where's the 'like' button when you need it.
All hail the prophets Gibson and Stephenson!
Ok, then googles next app would be called Google Living Room where you can look at the live streams from other peoples headgear... ohh the possibilities!
Ever see the movie Brain Storm??? That'll be the next step. Record what you see with all the sensations of being there.
all i want in life is a pair of glasses that tells me to drink pepsi when i look at a coke bottle... will there be a 'sponsored link' every 5 steps? or Hey look... im the 1,000,000th person to stand right here. I won a PS15!! seems legit.....
Wait until Google aggregates all your data even further in their search, it will be exactly like the Terminator. Your picture(from facebook) with age, spouse, co workers, friends, home value, taxes you paid, political affiliations, shopping habits, music tastes,etc.. all in one neat place.
so you would be walking around view the world through a low res image? no thanks
Uh, no. The camera would be used in conjunction with apps to show data or upload images or whatever, that'd be my guess. Not for actual viewing, that'd go over like a lead balloon.
The technological convergence draws closer. Someday we will no longer be human, we will become THE BORG.
Dont believe that. We're not as advanced as you might be led to believe by TV and movies.
The Borg were really nice people. Their only desire is to learn all there is to learn. To seek perfection. To achieve that, they only assimilated all the knowledge they could find, including those who had such knowledge.
One weird piece of trivia is that once during the Miss Borg Pageant, a contestant was disqualified for having to few augmentations.
I think it's amazing how much machines are becoming such a part of are lives they are almost indispensable. Now days most of us feel naked without our phones. Just wait til we can't leave the house without our augmented reality glasses.
http://geekedoutelectronics.blogspot.com/2012/02/google-goggles.html
Terminator Glasses? The Terminators glasses were just a simple set of Raybans... he didn't even wear glasses until his face got beat up and he took them from some guy in the arcade (I think it was)...
They were Gargoyles.
He does have an augmented reality HUD in his vision, so they're still glasses that make us like Terminators. Anything that turns people into Terminators is good in my book.
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Technology, the environment and the possibilities that will be available to us will eventually make us a planet of Cyborgs. The old way which is our way 'now' is to purchase something that we can put in our pockets and carry around. As time goes forward we'll see how people lose things that could be very expensive and it will become a major insurance head ache. As the planet gets warmer, and to avoid the high insurance premiums, we will begin to assimilate new technologies into our bodies so that they can't be lost. Our devices will become a part of us, and we will lose our humanity, because eventually the brain will be altared along with our conscience.
Somehow there will still be teabillies in the south scared of progress
but I just paid $4K to have lasik so I could stop wearing glasses – YUCK
Case closed.
No...it means you can buy awesome sunglasses like Maui Jim's, Oakleys, Ray-Bans or Revos and not have to get Rx.
i had lasik 11 years ago, and my vision was perfect for 10 years. As I sit in front of a screen ALL DAMN DAY, my eyes became accustomed to focusing on close things and after 10 years, I once again became 'near sighted'. I hope everyone who is considering lasik reads this and is made aware that IT IS NOT PERMANENT. And oh by the way, once you have had lasik they cant do it again – there are 'other procedures' they can do but it distorts your vision so severly they will only do one at a time – then eventually if you stare at close things constantly you will be right back in the same boat – BEWARE OF LASIK
cnn is the bomb
cool
hi
And stupid people everywhere will snap them up,and them become dependent on them.
Just cause we like our Tech doesn't make us stupid..... :p
"Hey Vegeta, what does the scouter say about his power level?!" This just brought that to mind for me..lol
WHAT?!?!? Over 9000!!!!
A far better analogy then the terminator (being that it was his eyes and internal processors not glasses). But a DBZ reference would be lost on most.
They could estimate BMI, not power levels anytime soon, which would be hilarious. Dam did you see that girl she is below a 15 BMI level!!!
ROFLOL!!!
Nice DBZ reference. The only real life use I would see is to show someone's net worth or gamer tag or last 10 searches or a pie graph of there most popular web site visited. Forget about privacy. I bet bounty hunters or cops get these first.
What about replicants?
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or you can sit on a hotplate
hee hee
The "Terminator Glasses" were a brand called Gargoyles. They were one of the 1st 'wraparound' sport oriented glasses on the market, like Oakley's Blades and Razor Blades.
Usually accompanied by a mullet.
My concept wes to develop wireless contact lenses with with that ability
Your concept, huh? lol. Well, you should have done something about it – someone else is already working on it.
Your Idea?? MI4 got it before you...see the movie if you haven't seen it...its not same as having augment reality in contact lenses...but wireless feature is there for sure
There's a difference between imagining something, and doing it.
MI4!? you young pup, this idea has been around for ages.
I. Asimov.
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The terminator glasses were just sunglasses! Nice going CNN.
They mean it simulates what the Terminator sees...they don't mean that they're like the sunglasses he wore. C'mon.
And to add to what you said, CNN didn't come up with the term. They are just reporting on it.
Yes! The Terminator arrived from time travel naked. The sunglasses were stolen along with clothes. The graphics shown weren't on the sunglass lenses, and they wouldn't even be on the Terminator's actual eye cameras.
As a machine, all the displayed info would be in memory for use by the processor. It would be ridiculous to format the ready-to-use data into an image, display it on the inside of the eye cameras, then view the image, recognize info apart from image, convert info from video back to data.
But, it's just a movie.
Yeah. Thats ridiculous that the Terminator would "see" its data. Totally pointless and not very scientific. Almost as ridiculous as the countless fake screens and computer programs shown in all Hollywood flicks with a technology spin. But alas, enough geeking out.
So, huh... where does that white iPhone in the picture fit in all this?
It's just CNN trying to get in as much free Apple advertising as they can. The picutre serves no pupose to the article just like calling them "Terminator Glasses". Gargoyles did not set several inches from the eyes.
Just more of CNN sucky "reporting".
They are referring to how the glasses mimic the Terminator's visual displays. They don't mean the sunglasses he wore.
Man, a lot of dummies here...
maybe its just there to show what people do today with their smartphones ( iPhone one of them) they will be able to do with these new glasses from Google. The photo shows iphone with augment reality app
Mars is right, look at the photo again. The "real world" shows cups with snowmen and such on them. The phone shows the same cups in the background with "augmented reality" snow falling around them.
So it would be like wearing a cell phone strapped to your head. Incidence of brain cancers will continue to be on the rise ...
The shades in terminator didn't really do anything but cover up the removed eye. I guess we'll need to get cornea replacements in the near future to make it TRULY 'terminatoresque'
I believe that they're refuring to the HUD seen in the Terminator movies, where the robot ID's its targets. That's what Augmented Reality is all about.
As for the cornea joke: it's not a joke. The same company that is trying to make the contact lens version already makes replacement lenses for cataract surgery, and said that they could use those too.
I think he wants it made from metal with a glowing red iris... Yeah, that's what he's wanting.
HUDs are not a new idea, and that hack Cameron never invented anything.
Yup, Cameron must have made a deal with the devil b/c he'll sell $1 billion or more in tickets no matter what kind of crud he puts out.
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He had to pay Harlan Ellison for stealing The Terminator, and Poul Anderson's estate is still working on him about AVATAR. If he'd PAY when he swiped, nobody would care.
I'll wait for the contacts version.
@TIM yea they were the infamous shades......
Wonder how many idiots will surf the web while driving while wearing these. Other than that, this sounds epic.. And most sunglasses already can cost $250 to $600 so it's two things, for the price of one.
Not to worry. People can use it while riding in their autonomous cars. We will be a race of mindless zombies not interacting with anyone, being driven around by computers as we stare off into a virtual world. Won't life be grand. I just hope the glasses will tell us when we are dead so we can tell our cars to drive us to the cemetery and drop us off into the hole nobody will be interested in digging.
I for one, welcome the virtual world's replacement of this one. This one sucks.
Ironic how CNN also did an article on automated cars.
You made me laugh but dealing with half-wit morons all day, I could only wish!
I just want glasses that serve as full-on computer screens / TVs, that can track the movements of my retina, and which I can control via special "gloves"... so a finger movement for instance would control the glasses... but not full-on gloves... and I can have it go into just regular glasses mode, augmented reality mode, or full-on screen mode (where you can't see any of the real world, for instance relaxing in a chair at home).
I got a finger movement for ya.
II got augmented reality for ya
Were there special glasses in the movie Terminator?
What is this article about?
I don't get it either. The Terminator didn't have any special glasses. It's ability to "see" digitally superimposed info was part of it's eye design. The glasses didn't have anything to do with it. Article makes no sense. Google should rename their glasses.
Fail on CNN's part.
Go to Google. Type define: metaphor in the search box. Press Enter.
You and Tim are both idiots.
Cool idea, but they hopefully will have them tested and reviewed by some eye doctors before they release them as it is quite possible they could cause eye strain or other eye problems and possibly muscle strain to the neck. Which is probaby why Google apparenty is not recommending they be worn full time. It would also be cool if someone would invent a watch or wristband that could beam a hologram displaying data in the same fashion, and it wouldn't cause eye strain. Mayble Apple might want to create a wearable i-pad. I've read about some very thin, bendable display screens, maybe those could be used within a wristband.
Google better check out the results of the "Opti-Grab" by Navin R. Johnson (aka Steve Martin).
SECOND!
That phone in the picture sucks.
As do you.
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It's bigger in real life.
That's what she said.