Google Glass and Augmented Reality

Google has now unveiled features of its Google Glass, a wearable glasses that does a lot of clever stuff. 

Augmented reality is definitely the way forward. Already with our Smart Phones, we use technology to complement more and more aspects of our lives. But taking out the phone from your pocket to check the map, to look up a restaurant, to surf the Internet or to take a picture is still a clumsy process. The device is very detached and we need to look for it when we need to use it. Which is why a wearable glasses that can provide some of the Smart Phone functions real time may be desirable.

Having said that, any glasses wearer would tell you it is not a piece of accessory that they would choose to wear, given a choice. It is not so convenient when doing sports, and historically glasses have not done well as a fashionable item. I can see people wear these devices for work or when at home. It would be more challenging to convince people to wear one of these when going out shopping, clubbing...etc.

In the long term, and there is a strong suspicion that this technology probably already exists, a contact lens version of this technology may proof to be more popular, In any case, augmented reality will really bring a futuristic feel to our society. Imagine you can have "the Terminator" type information streamed to you as you look at your surroundings (can you imagine looking at a piano and you can see just where to press to play the tune of a particular song?, suddenly you are an amateur piano player!), the future is here, and the transformation it brings to our society will be incredible.

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