Google Glass concept video revisited
January 28, 2013
Google Project Glass | We think technology should work for you—to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don’t.
A group of us from Google[x] started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment. We’re sharing this information now because we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input. So we took a few design photos to show what this technology could look like and created a video to demonstrate what it might enable you to do.
— Google Project Glass, Apr. 4, 2012.
Video Source: Project Glass
Related:
Google Glass patent applications: bone conduction, laser-projected keyboard, more
Comments (18)
by cbober92
Hey, I’m sure you guys already want to, but please make these for prescription glasses first and foremost.
by Whittaker
There are many ways for the effects shown in the video to be achieved.
One is to use a mini-projector. Another is to enbed the pixels inside a transparent screen (most likely). A third is a typical computer/digitalcamera display that is black when turned off.
by Knot
If you mean embedding the pixels in an eyeglas / making a display in an eyeglas, the problem is that the eye cannot focus on that short a range.
The way the system works is by projecting an image unto the retina, thereby bypassing the problem of a minimum distance requirement from the eye.
by Whittaker
Thanks for telling me that.
But, will such projector glass get as High-Resolutioned as the one in this video?
by Editor
“Projecting an image unto the retina”: please site a source. I am unaware of any such plans, which would be expensive, bulky, and inconsistent with the concept videos we’ve seen, as well as inconsistent with a Google Glass patent application shows the use of conventional optics: US Patent Application 20130021658,
http://www.seobythesea.com/2013/01/google-glass-hardware-patents/
by Knot
My apologies, I was mistaken – I assumed them to be like the Japanese “scouter” from Brother Industries that was mentioned on KurzweilAI earlier.
This just leaves me with some questions;
1) In this video one sees the images all over, and in the middle of the visual field and such. With the pictures I’ve just googled, there’s only a small screen in the upper-right corner of the eye – this makes no sense to me. This was initially also the reason I thought google-glass would be projecting into the eye (overlaying grid could project images unto the entire field of vision).
Likewise, how can the eye focus on an image a mere two centimetres away?
by Editor
No, you may have been right. Look at fig. 5. It shows a surprisingly miniaturized image projector (assuming it makes it into the final design).
by Knot
Assuming the glasses do indeed make use of that miniaturized image projector, ánd the bone-conduction audio, they’re squeezing a lot of advanced technology into a consumer product! I’m beginning to see why people are getting so exited about this gadget.
by Knot
*Excited
So, about that edit button…
by Editor
Er, ah, OK
by sblack
Hi, Amara Angelica is our Editor, I am Sarah Black Managing Editor. Thanks for your inquiry, we welcome all your input, newstips, and suggestions!
by sblack
Hi, thanks for the input. We’ve been covering it mainly in the News section. Here’s some recent coverage: http://www.kurzweilai.net/google-glass-to-hit-developers-hands-this-month
by Anonymous
This is not a demo. It is a concept video – that was released early last year.
by sblack
You’re right, I fixed the headline to be accurate. THANKS! -S.
by Whittaker
Is this Ms Amara? Or is there more than one editor on this website?
Who freely switch his/her name?
by GatorALLin
Yeah, this demo is cool to get you thinking on all the daily use advantages to having this product/tool in use. Love to see a few other demos that are more specific to other uses… like medical professional uses. Lets hope some of these demo kits are getting out to the public and some other uses can be put into action.
by Whittaker
This video actually have been released a few months ago, am I right?
Wonder why KurzweilAI did not introduce it earlier, like immediately after the video’s release.
By the way, this is not really “augmented reality”, as apparently the enbedded computer is not capable of recognizing the objects inside the field of view and *autonomously* add augmentation (such as highlighting a road or building when seeing a road or building, or highlighting other objects).
They should work on that and make the function availalble on the next generation of Google Glass.
As well, it would be great if the music playing at 1:00 (in the video) is autonomously done, with text and picture recognition.
by Whittaker
“(such as highlighting a road or building when seeing a road or building, or highlighting other objects).”
I wish to add other applications, such as. after recognizing the surrounding environment and constructed a 3D model of the surrounding environment, run simulations in this model and project the simulation into the human wearer’s field of view, e.g. virtual clothing on real human models or real mannequins, or virtual cars on real roads.
Professor Andrew Ng of Stanford University had some wonderful research done on converting 2D pictures to 3D models.
A good example (via his website):
http://make3d.cs.cornell.edu/
I actually took Professor Ng’s Machine Learning course on Coursera last Spring, but did not finish it. I recommend his course.