Google has
introduced 1 model about how AR glass looks like
Google is carrying on a headset that promises to release the
potential of augmented reality (AR), which uses technology to overlap data on
real-time images. Up to now, AR has been limited to smartphones, whose cameras
are used to point at something, and the mobile device using GPSS and internet
to trace and spread the information on the screens. Google hopes to overcome
this with its headset Project Glass.
Project Glass is designed as a head-ups display (HUD) for
your life by displaying alerts, emails and other information on the screen. The
project is at the first step but Google X (a confidential department of Google
specializes in future plans) has unveiled a lot of model images about how it
works.
Unlike other designs for AR glasses, formerly covering the
whole eyes and using a video camera to display what are in front of users’
face, Project Glass has a small screen on the right so that the normal vision
is not affected.
Project
Glass has a small screen on the right so that the normal vision is not affected
Google X has unveiled an advertising video as well
(available at www.tinyurl.com/bp5az9c) manipulates how the
glasses are used. It presents users using built-in SMS and social network to
stay in touch with friends.
The video also presents a user watching sky out of the
windows, which originally makes the weather notification appear; meanwhile the
installed Google Maps can help them to find a location or even paths in a
bookstore. Google Latitude can help you to find friends that you are going to
meet; and by interacting with an affiche, it can help you to reserve a ticket
for a concert or movie.
“We think that technology will work for you – it will be
there when you need, and disappear if you do not” – said the Project Glass on
Google+. “A group of us from Google (x) has started Project Glass to build this
kind of technology which supports you to discover and share your world, and
bring you back just in seconds.
Up to now, there is no precise information about how the
technology works although the illustrating video uses a mix of voice input and
things like actions – from the eyes for sure – to choose the icons and navigate
menu.
There is not any information about the release day or price,
but it is an interesting view about the way we soon interact with surrounding
world.
Top ten apps for Project Glass
Although video Project Glass of Google presents some
examples about provided technology, we think there are a lot of potentials and
creativeness from it. The brief summaries about what we want to see are as
follows:
1.
Game AR
The
gaming possibilities enhanced by AR are high
Playing AR games is familiar to us, thanks to games such as
Zombies, Run! (www.zoombiesrungame.com) - a
fitness game based on sounds in which you have to get rid of zombies. Head-ups
display can provide with more impressive interaction experiences, and with good
mobile connection, we can take first-person game out.
The gaming possibilities enhanced by AR are high. With
head-ups display, you can carry out the treasure trip with geographical-based
signals, or a virtual tag around.
Best of all, you will always know who is winning, and there
is no dispute about who caught who.
2.
Wireframe X-ray vision
The city may be scary. Towers of concrete and glasses surrounds
you, making you small, ordinary and scared – or get lost. What you need is to
find the way to get rid of city nightmares and know where you are going.
X-ray vision of Google Glass uses the data from Street View
and Maps and geographical information from British Maps Agency to create a
wire-frame map of city. With the maps shown in front of your eyes, you can
travel from this side to another without any of that chaotic block of concrete.
Suddenly, the city looks easy to manage and navigate.
The future update may include underground maps and municipal
facilities tunnel.
3.
Dirty-restaurant notification!
If you
need to eat in an unknown city, and you only need some cheap fast-food, it can
be a lottery
If you need to eat in an unknown city, and you only need
some cheap fast-food, it can be a lottery – and we do not mention quality only.
We have the latest rankings from Food Standards Agency appear in front of our
eyes right before entering a BBQ restaurant. It is not more delicious always,
but at least, it is much safer.
4.
Keep track of real-time achievement
Instead
of jogging outsides with dozens of equipment, all you need to do is putting on
some sensors
We are accustomed to watching the statistics on the screen while
playing to see how much blood and bullets left in latest FPS games. However,
the sport-favored keep track of their achievements through screens which
display heartbeats, steps and other GPS units.
Instead of jogging outsides with dozens of equipment, all
you need to do is putting on some sensors and letting Project present you your
heartbeats, elevation, speed, distance travelled and anything else. However, we
want the longer battery life than what we had from Motoactv of Motorola.
5.
Face detection
Face
detection
A smart help for absent-minded people is the face detection
apps which finds any faces it has ever seen plus a label with their names over
their heads, even more details about the place where you met them for the first
time. It is ideal for commercial exhibitions or press meetings, and it will
decrease the walking around with the stupid name cards which you always forget
to take off before getting on public transport. You can also present other
chosen names, such as Gamer label or the fake name you chose for Google+.
6.
Instruction materials in a glance
Being an owner of filled-with-oil bike repair materials,
there are times we really wish to look at the material without handling
anything. The ability of appearing on screen while working will help you be
free with your hands and make the materials clean. Admittedly, such an app will
work well if you are holding components while building a PC or your hands are
covered with baking power during baking.
7.
Instant event information
You have missed the latest show? Forget to do something? An
app you will find in any AR system for sure is the list of movies and events
that you can make them appear whenever passing by a location; and the trailer
that you can run by looking at movie poster. We do like a relevant app letting
us know which beer party is available locally.
Of course, spam mails can be troubles. Instead of brochures,
people who you see outside of every music show can publicly share information
about events that they are hired to advertise, having them appear directly on
your screen. We miss the flyers on the bedroom wall, but sometimes, it is good
to know that we are not 17 years old any longer.
8.
Myth abandon
Although Google Glass is a visual aid tool, nothing can
prevent Google from adding sound technology to record talks around you. It can
keep track of the detailed key words – CIA and Twin Tower or Protocols of the
Elders of Zion for example – and at once, a relevant article from website
Snopes, or a Wikipedia one will appear. It enables you to refuse the urban
myths and other misconceptions, thus reducing the idiots in the world.
9.
Telling the ambulance your location
Telling
the ambulance your location
If you are wonder in streets with bunches of information
coming into your eyes, it is sure that it will not take long before you fall or
getting lost to a dark and dirty close.
It may be your fault because of not paying attention but it
will not cost that much. In this case, every AR has an option of calling the
ambulance so that you can let the driver where exactly you are and what happens
to you.
10.
Life history
Replace
the modern English shops with previous-century stores
Ever wonder what happened to that giant factory or Jacobean
palace before it was turned into luxury apartments? You are not alone. We need
another AR app which enables you to virtually walk around local avenues, and
replace the modern English shops with previous-century stores.
What is even better is another app which re-enacts scenes
from historical events that happened in a special venue, and spreads these
scenes in front of your faces. Let’s follow Pippa Middleton along the
Westminster Abbey or watch the death-sentenced criminals in their rope at
Tyburn. Forget Modern War Fair 3, it is just entertainment.
