MICROSOFT's PATENT:
The patent suggests the glasses would be attached to a wrist-worn computer.
Microsoft suggests the glasses could overlay statistics about sport
Posted on 11/23/2012 7:10:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind
You've heard that Google is working on computerized glasses. They're called Google Glass, and developers can already buy them.
It turns out Microsoft is working on something similar. It filed some patents on the project and Unwired View dug them up.
There's a big difference between what Microsoft is working on and Google Glass, though.
The most recent word out of Google is that Google Glass isn't going to use "augmented reality" – where data and illustrations overlay the actual world around you. Google Glass is actually just a tiny screen you have to look up and to the left to see.
Microsoft's glasses seem to utilize augmented reality. In a patent illustration we've embedded below, you can see that the glasses put data on top of a live action concert and a ballgame.
Both gadget concepts are very interesting.
Lots of people disagree with me, including other BI writers, but I think something like Google Glass or whatever Microsoft is working on could end up replacing the smartphone as the dominant way people access the Internet and connect to each other.
First off: something has to. Disruption is inevitable.
Secondly: The trend is obvious. Computers have been getting smaller and closer to our faces since their very beginning.
First they were in big rooms, then they sat on desktops, then they sat on our laps, and now they're in our palms. Next they'll be on our faces.
(Eventually they'll be in our brains.)
By the way, you can bet that if Microsoft and Google are working on computerized glasses, so is Apple and Jony Ive.
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Riiiiight.....people are just going to be watching porn on them.
... and the glasses will not keep them from going blind...
Sort of reminds me of the wrist watch radio Dick Tracy used or the shoe phone Maxwell Smart had. The trick is to find a way to wear your computer.
Looks like their MLB database could use a little updating.
You say that like it's a bad thing!
Check out the new Oakley Airwave snow goggle. Half the tech is already here and available.
Check out the new Oakley Airwave snow goggle. Half the tech is already here and available.
I see another app that will “overlay” statistics.
“Dimensions: 36-24-36.....Are They Real?: Yes.”
Wonder if they have consulted with Navan Johnson on possible lawsuits down the road.
Use your imagination where the gadget got inserted. Eyedrops not included!
Exactly...and HTTR
Ambulance chaser’s delight this will be.
Truly horrifying.
And of course people will have the good sense not to drive with them on.....right?
....... and I haven’t even gotten my first smart phone....... I will never catch up........:(
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