Comments on: Google Glass concept video revisited

By: Editor

Editor — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:10:23 +0000

Er, ah, OK

By: Knot

Knot — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:06:18 +0000

*Excited

So, about that edit button…

By: Knot

Knot — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:04:42 +0000

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: Editor

Editor — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:22:37 +0000

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

Knot — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:01:51 +0000

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: cbober92

cbober92 — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:49:08 +0000

Hey, I’m sure you guys already want to, but please make these for prescription glasses first and foremost.

By: Editor

Editor — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:25:02 +0000

“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: Whittaker

Whittaker — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 02:09:06 +0000

Thanks for telling me that.
But, will such projector glass get as High-Resolutioned as the one in this video?

By: Knot

Knot — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:32:33 +0000

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

Whittaker — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:58:01 +0000

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: sblack

sblack — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:23:02 +0000

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: Whittaker

Whittaker — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:18:18 +0000

Is this Ms Amara? Or is there more than one editor on this website?
Who freely switch his/her name?

By: sblack

sblack — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:48:10 +0000

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: Whittaker

Whittaker — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:47:09 +0000

“(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.

By: sblack

sblack — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:29:56 +0000

You’re right, I fixed the headline to be accurate. THANKS! -S.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:17:55 +0000

This is not a demo. It is a concept video – that was released early last year.

By: GatorALLin

GatorALLin — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:06:50 +0000

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

Whittaker — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:05:37 +0000

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.