Google: Project Glass

=Lizzy · 05-04-2012, 11:22 AM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...iew-world.html

heres a picture of them.. i'm not too keen on them they look weird

Chippiewill · 05-04-2012, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by peteyt

I'd rather not wear the glasses myself. It would be good if this could be done without the glasses and still some people would wonder who you where talking to but I suppose people would get used to it if it caught on.

The time to get it to contact lenses could take a while (The only plausible solution within 50 years..) since the electronics have to be shrunk down enough that they won't be in your vision. Although beyond 50 years we may get neural interfaces instead or implants behind the retina, the difficult here though is they have to make the electronics power efficient enough to run off body-heat or tapping off electro-chemical energy.

Originally Posted by =Lizzy

heres a picture of them.. i'm not too keen on them they look weird

I suspect they could fit it into just the rims within 3-4 years and use a transparent OLED display over the entire lens as well.

Originally Posted by Gommeinc

It's interesting, but socially awkward to treat an electrical device as an underwriter, secretary or personal assistant when it can be done quietly.

I think as phones do more for us with audio input social trends will change to suit and unlike now where we're actively speaking to our phones and consciously aware of that fact in the future we'll be thinking about what we're actually doing talking to a machine as much as we do when we have a conversation with people today. And once we start forgetting that it's a machine we'll stop "putting on a voice" so that it can hear us (If you've ever tried using siri you'll probably find that you don't speak to it normally).

**Recursion** · 05-04-2012, 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by Chippiewill

The time to get it to contact lenses could take a while (The only plausible solution within 50 years..) since the electronics have to be shrunk down enough that they won't be in your vision. Although beyond 50 years we may get neural interfaces instead or implants behind the retina, the difficult here though is they have to make the electronics power efficient enough to run off body-heat or tapping off electro-chemical energy.

I suspect they could fit it into just the rims within 3-4 years and use a transparent OLED display over the entire lens as well.

I think as phones do more for us with audio input social trends will change to suit and unlike now where we're actively speaking to our phones and consciously aware of that fact in the future we'll be thinking about what we're actually doing talking to a machine as much as we do when we have a conversation with people today. And once we start forgetting that it's a machine we'll stop "putting on a voice" so that it can hear us (If you've ever tried using siri you'll probably find that you don't speak to it normally).

Personally, I don't see the voice input taking off. The implementations nowadays require more effort to bring up the voice interface, speak, wait for the apps to load or whatever rather than just hitting the Google icon on your home screen and typing what you want.

peteyt · 05-04-2012, 11:40 PM

Originally Posted by Chippiewill

The time to get it to contact lenses could take a while (The only plausible solution within 50 years..) since the electronics have to be shrunk down enough that they won't be in your vision. Although beyond 50 years we may get neural interfaces instead or implants behind the retina, the difficult here though is they have to make the electronics power efficient enough to run off body-heat or tapping off electro-chemical energy.

Intresting. I am just wondering how many people on here would actually get something like this implanted to them.

The idea does sound cool but at the same time, I am not sure if I would take it if it was there - Technology is good if you can use it and then take it off when you want. I think if it was integrated with us it could maybe ruin some parts of life and upgrading wouldn't be the easiest thing.

Would anyone get this done?