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Google: smart glasses before the end of the year
The glasses are about to become a little more geeky than before, and the man to get closer to Terminator. Journalist Nick Bilton reports in a post on the New York Times Bits blog that Google is about to market glasses that will broadcast augmented reality information by the end of the year. The product, dubbed "heads-up display glasses" (VO), will allow users to receive information about their environment such as reviews of nearby restaurants or the presence of friends. Bilton writes:
"People close to the Google glasses have confirmed that they will use Android and will have a small screen that will be a few millimeters away from the user's eye. They will also have a connection to 3G or 4G data and several sensors, including motion and GPS. "
The screen will appear on one eye only. The plan is to market the glasses at the same price as a smartphone, between 250 and 600 dollars in the United States. Like phones, the glasses will be made for occasional use and not to be worn all day.
9to5 Google blogger Seth Weintraub, who has been following the "Terminator Eyeglass" case for several months, cites sources who say they will look like Oakley's MP3 Thump glasses, and reports that users will be able to navigate by tilting or shaking his head.
Uninitiated users may be surprised by users' untimely head shaking, just as they thought people were talking alone when they came out of the first Bluetooth wireless headset. The smart glasses are developed by GoogleX, a laboratory that specializes in innovative projects, while Motorola and Apple are also studying portable computing products, according to Weintraub and Bilton.
But the glasses also come with questions about privacy that are taken very seriously by GoogleX, reports Bilton. Sebastian Anthony writes about it on Extreme Tech:
"A laptop that a) knows where you are and b) what you are looking at ... The term" tracking cookie "will take on a whole new dimension when Google makes the connection between your real-life business and your Internet business. Do not forget that Google is a company that sells advertising, for which the eyeballs are transformed directly into money, and it is difficult to get closer to your eyes than with a pair of augmented reality glasses.
When you watch a car dealership, Google will be able to display a competitor's ads. When you look at your computer or television, or through a shop window, the glasses can perceive your head movements and send information about the effectiveness of the advertising display. Even more crazy, Google could even add its own layer of interactive advertising when you read a newspaper or a book.
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