Google X labs confirms augmented reality glasses project, releases video demo

I watched the video and I think it's brilliant....

We are sort of living in an information overload, constantly interfaced, constantly monitored and monitoring electronic society - and this is really great... There are just so many advantages to it....

Sometimes I think it's just so nice to have a 2B pencil and a piece of paper - and to be blissfully bloody ignorant.

Google Goggles surely?

Reminds me of an episode of black mirror by Charlie Brooker.

Nice technology. If it works like that, I'm in. However I know the ad companies will find ways to deluge us with crap we don't wanna see. Like some clown marrying bacon. Now if they could just find a way to put a dot over the sun while I'm driving towards it.

Hate to admit it, but I like it, especially the mapping feature. I am Locutus of Google - you will be assimilated.

The mind meld device in UI has been around as long as the promise of flying cars, jet packs and George Lucas moving on from Star Wars.

@VoiceofReason I think the "Putting a dot over the Sun" is being done in high urgency situations like the military. Some day it may become common place. It sure looks like a great place to put an add. I can see it already in my imagination. Look up and there is the round Coca-Cola symbol right where the sun would be. The next day, a Mercedes emblem, then an NBA basketball. Your not supposed to look at the sun anyway so there is no damage as long as they don't replace the sun with the face Mick Jagger. I don't think my nervous system could handle that. :-)

Yes, track my every move, word and thought please. Oh, and while you're at it, spam me silly with ads about everything I do. That would be great.

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

Meh. Maybe I'm too old. I wouldn't give a farthing for it. Cool(ish) tech but who needs it?

The visual input would be great in certain situations and "a clear and present danger" in others. If you think "Distracted Driving" is a big issue now it will be on fire when this remarkable device shows up. I want a pair for when I'm not doing something like cooking, driving, walking, using power tools, performing surgery, etc. Keeping most output/input with voice and visuals only when requested would make for a much safer devise.

We need electronics that will help us break the logjam of ideology. Part of that is just starting to see the world as it is, without some "-ism" blinding us. This kind of interface could potentially help that.

Too bad others thought of this idea first Google.

Perhaps you (Google) can execute well like Apple has done by being a late adopter but great innovator.

Wait till it is used by big brother to control our thinking.

CREEPY! Hello!? Nobody thinks this is creepy?? TO FAR. But for all the urban dwellers have at it! lol

The integrated-life concept is a little over the top, and I'm already a bit put off from smartphones for the same reason. That said, for a while now I have been facing a vexing problem: how to have a computer that I can generally be productive with, that is also small enough to fit into my pocket. This tech could solve the display portion of that problem.

Could be a really cool thing for museums and historic site visits but doubt i'd use it daily. I can see people walking out in traffic while focusing on this thing. I felt spacy just watching the video. It would definately have its uses but it is possible to be too connected. For a few years at least the thing wouldn't know what to do where I live unless it would identify trees and plants.

I don't think there's any good technical reason why a wearable computer absolutely has to be networked through a telephone company 24/7. You can imagine devices that directly use GPS and randomly encountered wifi hotspots without reporting every damned thing to a central database. Yes Google et al could still track which wifi base station you last used but if you had a PC-like level of control over your software then you, or the company that made your device, could engineer in a lot of privacy. There might eventually be at least a niche market for such privacy although at the moment the unwashed masses seem content to be tracked.

A food scanning device will obviously be the next big step forward in this product among others, as technology makes our lives easier

This technology is very promising for both the smartphone and the computer industry... even though the "big brother" issue is there and also the possible (or maybe not not?) of ads running rampant over the display whenever we are seeing something.

Aslo - this reminds me of an anime I saw a couple of years ago: Denno Coil.

google.....always thinking

Yes unfortunately thinking seems to be about as far as they have got. I am very interested in these sorts of projects and would definitely wear one (subject to the obvious privacy concerns). In their blog they use phrases like "to show what this technology *could* look like" and "created a video to demonstrate what it *might* enable you to do.", and are asking for input from us. The bolds are my own emphasis of what I consider pertinent words. Google never asks for input after they have got any great distance with a product already. They usually just spring them upon us, so you can be sure this project is unfortunately a long long way from the production stage

With today's technology this will actually be a maddening experience. "I'm sorry, I didn't understand what you said. Please say the name of the thing that are you looking for...." Did you mean "Maynard Street"? No! Main Street! "Mans tree?" No! Main street! "Remind me to buy Monsieur Gayno tickets". Did you mean "Mall Sewer Gay Now?" Ahhhhhhhhhggggg!

They still have not solved the now 50 year old HMD problem of convergence accommodation disparity which forces you to refocus your eye lenses AND also converge your two eye balls on a focal plane. Its the switching back and forth between the real world near infinity and the text screen wherever they set it in the Head Mounted Display that is nauseating.

The disparity can cause from head to stomach aches, so I'd like to learn from users over several days to weeks on their experiences.