Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End

NY Times via Kurzweil.net ^ | Feb. 21, 2012 | By NICK BILTON

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits of information will soon have another option: a pair of Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time.

According to several Google employees familiar with the project who asked not to be named, the glasses will go on sale to the public by the end of the year. These people said they are expected “to cost around the price of current smartphones,” or $250 to $600.

The people familiar with the Google glasses said they would be Android-based, and will include a small screen that will sit a few inches from someone’s eye. They will also have a 3G or 4G data connection and a number of sensors including motion and GPS.

A Google spokesman declined to comment on the project.

Seth Weintraub, a blogger for 9 to 5 Google, who first wrote about the glasses project in December, and then discovered more information about them this month, also said the glasses would be Android-based and cited a source that described their look as that of a pair of Oakley Thumps.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Sounds ultra-cool!

[GraceG]

Ghost in the Shell like tech, cool.

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[Beagle8U]

I can envision geeks crashing into trees...as a google pop-up ad totally blocks their vision.

[Uncle Ike]

” Sounds ultra-cool! “

If “Texting While Driving” is a driving hazard - this could be a nightmare...

Is that guy in the Hummer seeing me, or is he seeing the ball game??

Cool - yeah...

[Colonel_Flagg]

According to several Google employees familiar with the project who asked not to be named, the glasses will go on sale to the public by the end of the year.

For information on where to find the glasses, simply use your Safari browser with all privacy settings set to 'on'. Google will find you.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Perfect for driving. Hey, they're hands-free.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Just root them and install Ad-Free Android. :D

[Beagle8U]

But that wouldn’t be nearly as exciting.

[andy58-in-nh]

Perfect for driving. Hey, they're hands-free.

Or for porn. And for the same reason.

[Sarajevo]

Will these glasses steal the electrons out of my head?

[bravo whiskey]

anti driving with HUD glasses laws passed in 5 4 3.....

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Least the glasses will tell them what kind of tree they crashed into. And the address to call the police to.

[mojitojoe]

Oh goody, now goo gle can track you wherever you go! Goo gle sux.

[hoagy62]

“Gee why is Frank smiling all the time he has his new Google Glasses on?”

Because Frank is watching porn and nobody knows.

(Face it...you just KNOW someone’s going to be doing this...)

[brownsfan]

To me, the need to be connected constantly is a sign of mental illness.

[Beagle8U]

“Least the glasses will tell them what kind of tree they crashed into. And the address to call the police to.”

Well, there is that, a feature I guess.

[Michael Barnes]

[frithguild]

[philman_36]

...described their look as that of a pair of Oakley Thumps.

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They would look much better than the prototypes depicted in this old article from December 2011.
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