Google Glasses Could Give Users "Terminator-Style" Vision

Google Glasses Could Give Users "Terminator-Style" Vision - Video Just a start? As if you weren’t addicted to the Internet already. Google researchers are building heads up displays that look like ordinary glasses, 9to5Google reported Monday. Users will be able to walk around with “information popping up and into display - Terminator-style - based on prefere (visit source article)

Google Goggles Android update makes your vacation photos slightly more interesting

Google Goggles Android update makes your vacation photos slightly more interesting - Google Googles‘ powers of perception have become a little more perspicacious, thanks to a new update for Android users. With version 1.6, tourists can use their smartphones to take a picture of a given area, while Google’s visual search app works in the background to identify any notable landmarks, paintings or other objects. If it picks up on anything of interest, it’ll automatically notify the user, instantly endowing him or her with gooey chunks of knowledge. It seems like a pretty user-friendly refresh, though things will really get interesting if faces ever get involved. Hit up the source link below to download the update for yourself. 

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Google X glasses tipped, Android running Terminator-like tech

Google X glasses tipped, Android running Terminator-like tech - When it comes to futuristic projects coming out of the labs at such titanic companies as Apple and Google, there’s no shortage of interest in even the smallest project, the simplest notion of a project – what we’re hearing today is that there’s not just a tiny project popping up in the mysterious off-campus lair known as Google X, there’s a whole set of glasses. While Apple has been tipped just earlier today as working on a wrist set bangle / watch sort of iPod device that may well be a Siri-controlled peripheral, this Google project is set to be a standalone device which connects to the web with mobile data, displaying then the information you want to see in the lenses of the glasses as they sit on your face. Scanning, scanning, match found!

You should know that it’s been tipped that both Apple and Google have been tipped separately to be working on “wearable tech” for release as soon as 2012. In both cases it seems that there is a very small group of employees working on these very secretive projects, each one (or each set) made to attach to a user’s body or clothing. The New York Times reported today that they’d gotten word of an “open secret” from inside the Google community:

“Over the last year, Apple and Google have secretly begun working on projects that will become wearable computers. Their main goal: to sell more smartphones. (In Google’s case, more smartphones sold means more advertising viewed.) In Google’s secret Google X labs, researchers are working on peripherals that — when attached to your clothing or body — would communicate information back to an Android smartphone. People familiar with the work in the lab say Google has hired electronic engineers from Nokia Labs, Apple and engineering universities who specialize in tiny wearable computers.” – NYT

A source speaking with 9to5Google has passed on information that states the company to be in late prototype stages of a thick-rimmed pair of glasses that “normal people” supposedly wear — this source, we must guess, must be a hipster. Regardless, these glasses are said to have just a few buttons on the arms of the glasses, the information they supply then popping up on your heads-up display: IE the lens of your glasses. As 9to5Google notes, back in June, 2011, prominent wearables PhD Richard DuVaul moved from Apple to Google, this fellow specializing in wearable heads up displays (HUDs):

“His dissertation was on “The Memory Glasses“, a heads-up display focused on the problems associated with wearable memory support technology. This included hardware and software architectures, and low-attention human-computer interaction for wearable computing, including the use of subliminal visual cues for just-in-time memory support.” – Seth Weintraub

The New York Times article notes that the glasses or, if you will, Google Goggles, will be an Android peripheral similar to how the iBangles above need an iPhone to function. What the source speaking with 9to5Google says, on the other hand, is that although this device will work with Android more than likely, it would communicate with Google over IP. On the other hand again, it would likely need your mobile device’s internet connection with its Wi-fi capable guts.

Finally, and perhaps most important, it’s said that Google’s Sergey Brin is “closely associated with the project” and that it’ll be Google-branded hardware when all is said and done. Sound like a superhero to you? We’ll be staving off headaches if in-glasses displays are the way of the future, that’s for sure. 

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Google Glasses Could Give Users "Terminator-Style" Vision

Google Glasses Could Give Users "Terminator-Style" Vision - As if you weren’t addicted to the Internet already.

Google researchers are building heads up displays that look like ordinary glasses, 9to5Google reported Monday.

Users will be able to walk around with “information popping up and into display - Terminator-style - based on preferences, location and Google’s information,” the blog reports.

Google’s glasses would be tied directly to Google’s cloud-based services, 9to5Google asserts. So users won’t need to bring a smartphone or other device with them to connect to the Internet.

To help do this, Google hired Richard DeVaul away from Apple in June. DeVaul’s PhD disseratation “The Memory Glasses,” was on personal heads up displays. DeVaul now works as a ‘rapid evaluator’ at Google, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Between 2004 and 2010, DeVaul was founder and president of AWare Technologies. Between 1997 and 2003, DeVaul worked as a research assistant at MIT’s Media Lab.

Google, of course, already offers an augmented reality application to smartphone users. Google Goggles layer data from Google’s servers over an image taken by the phone’s camera and display an enhanced image to a user.

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Google Glasses, Futuristic Glasses Android

Google Glasses, Futuristic Glasses Android - Google reportedly had a secret laboratory, dubbed as Google X. This is where Google's various experiments carried out by working on a variety of futuristic products. Includes a sophisticated computer glasses nicknamed Google Glasses.

His form is similar to ordinary glasses and can be worn comfortably. But apparently, the goggles can display various information about what users see in real time.

"They are in the final stages of making a prototype glasses that are similar to ordinary glasses. However, these glasses have a screen with a computer interface. There are a few buttons on the stem," said media 9to5Google that get leaked from internal sources.

Google reportedly recruiting experts from leading universities MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to realize Google Glasses. Reported by dailymail and quoted on Wednesday (12/21/2011), these glasses will use the Android operating system.

Google Glasses will display information about the environment in which the user is located, exactly as in various film Hollywoood. For example, if a user viewed the building is not known, these glasses instantly displays information about the building.

Google's own party say they have some sort of secret laboratory. "Google always invest in projects that are still in the stage of speculation, it is part of our DNA," said Google spokesman.