Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Augmented Reality glasses

The other day in a Google Plus post, several Google employees from the Google X laboratory asked people for input about a new prototype called Project Glass.

The prototype was shown and the well designed glasses can stream information to the lenses and allow the person who wears them to send and receive messages through voice commands. Along with that there are built-in camera and apparently built in 8G storage.

The glasses will be Android based according reports, and will have 3G or 4G data connection, GPS and several sensors.

9to5Google said that: "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."

Maybe even in the future, there could be contact lenses doing the same thing. For now, some google employees say that the glasses will be available by the end of 2012 and will cost somewhere from $250 to $600.