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[Diva]

http://www.chipchick.com/2012/04/google-project-glass.html

Googles Project Glass Creates Real Life HUD, May Detect Power Levels
Posted on April 5, 2012 by Chance Kinney in News, Web/Tech |


At CES 2012 this year, Vuzix unveiled a pair of SMART glasses, which would provide an augmented reality display in the guise of a pair of sunglasses strongly resembling a pair of Oakleys. Unfortunately for Vuzix, it looks like Google just one-upped them – in style and in substance. Project Glass is coming. Eventually.

Project Glass is minimalist in design, but looks to be big on functionality. The apparatus itself (as it is now, which is an important distinction to make) consists of a thin metal band worn around the eyes, with a small transparent display in front of the right eye. Word is that when Project Glass is finalized, users will still be able to wear their normal eyewear along with it – after all, I doubt Google would be keen on ostracizing the glasses wearing community – that’s a whole lot of people to not make money from.

Project Glass was demonstrated in Google’s “One Day” video, which reveals what Project Glass will do, but leaves us in the dark about how exactly it works. When Project Glass is initialized (apparently done simply by putting the eyewear on), a set of 14 small icons shows up, then quickly disappears. Different icons are activated when the user looks at different places – a blank wall brings up reminders and looking out of the window brings up weather. Messages pop-up in real-time, but it’s not clear yet if you can dismiss them or save them to read later, or how you would even go about controlling that.

At this point, it would be worth it to mention that Project Glass is by no means expected to come out anytime soon. It very well could, but it’s more likely that we’re still at least a year or two (or more) from seeing something like Project Glass become available. Google has stated that the purpose of the video is not so much to advertise as it is to encourage feedback from those watching.

Project Glass appears to have some sort of built-in GPS functionality – when the user approaches a subway station, he gets a notification informing him that service is currently down. The user instantly brings up walking directions to his destination, and follows them. Later in the video, Project Glass even provides him with a map of the bookstore he goes to, which seems unnecessary, but awfully cool nonetheless. A check-in feature is also demonstrated. Users will apparently be able to share their location, so friends can pinpoint where other friends are – useful for meeting up with people, creepiness potential aside.

The notifications don’t appear on “screen” for long, but when they are displayed, they take up a pretty healthy chunk of the user’s field of vision, which is bound to be a concern. After all, this isn’t a video game, where bringing up the HUD pauses the game. Your notifications aren’t going to stop that bus approaching the intersection – Google and users still have plenty more thinking to do about how to make this technology safe to use. An argument Google makes is that the glasses can actually be less distracting, making it so that users don’t need to divert their gaze completely to a mobile device, which is admittedly an argument worth considering. Still, diligence is needed. A lot of it.

Who knows when we’ll actually get our hands on Project Glass, but when we do, it’s almost guaranteed to be a hot item, whether you like the idea or not. If the finished product looks anything like what Google is showing off now, it will look futuristic in the best sense, playing off images from science-fiction classics. Just try not to crush your new toy in excitement when you finally get your hands on one, alright? I know the temptation will be hard to resist.

Via BBC News

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wer zuletzt lacht lacht am besten

[Diva]

hier einfach noch ein paar gute links zum thema ...

http://www.awaken.com/2012/04/google-unveils-augmented-reali…


ein paar "blog" - kommentare
https://plus.google.com/111185848672556379969/posts

nochmal youtube und google
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsfumxuEScY

und noch was kritisches zum thema:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/05/google-proj…


gut isses ... oder we will see ...

[Diva]

nokia und vuzix und smart glasses

http://www.slashgear.com/could-nokia-beat-project-glass-to-t…


Could Nokia beat Project Glass to the AR market?
Chris Davies, Apr 5th 2012 Discuss [1]

Project Glass may have stolen attention over the past 24hrs, but Google isn’t the only company working on wearable displays; in fact, Nokia has been playing with the technology for several years, quietly inking deals along the way. As far back as 2009, Nokia was showing off its own alternative to the Project Glass concept video, dubbed Nokia Mixed Reality, with a similar mixture of streaming information and location-based services.




The Nokia Research video, created for Nokia World 2009, used a sunglasses-styled headset that, so the concept suggested, would take advantage of gaze tracking to navigate through menus. It would be accompanied by a bracelet-like “haptic wrist device” that could track hand gestures too, along with a pair of wireless earbuds:




As is the case with Google’s video, it’s all conceptual and not actually functional. Still, that doesn’t mean Nokia hasn’t been slotting the necessary pieces into place; the company made a deal with Vuzix back in October 2011, allowing the wearable display company to use Nokia’s EPE (Exit Pupil Expanding) optics technology.

“Vuzix will perform on-going research and development and is expected to manufacture and bring to market components and products containing the licensed technology” Nokia said of the agreement last year. “In addition, Vuzix will provide Nokia with access to its products and components which incorporate the licensed technology. The see-through EPE technology has been developed and prototyped by Nokia over the past decade in various configurations. Vuzix believes that it has the potential to form the basis for sunglass-styled video eyewear, which could be manufactured in high volume and appeal to mass consumer markets.”



Since that deal, Nokia and Vuzix have been relatively quiet about the technology, but the eyewear firm did announce a clunky prototype with NEC - shown above – that could overlay social networking and more on top of a real-life view of the world. Like Project Glass, it’s equipped with a front-facing camera, though Vuzix’s STAR series kit is a lot less streamlined than the “design studies” Google has shown.

When, exactly, Vuzix and Nokia could launch a commercial product based on their combined tech is unclear, and we don’t know what degree of prototyping either firm is at. Google is now taking Project Glass out into public trials, after all, and we’re expecting to hear plenty more about the system at Google I/O in late June."

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" ... Since that deal, Nokia and Vuzix have been relatively quiet about the technology ... " können wir hier alle bestätigen ...


ten years .... " past decade" ...

10 jahre an erfahrung - experimentieren - vorsprung??


... endlich erscheint aber mal was ....

[Diva]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 43.007.629 von Diva am 05.04.12 15:24:08

das war geschwindelt ... also das: "vorerst der letzte link"




http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/google-project-glas/


das das ganze jetzt so schön auf`s tablett kommt, könnte evtl. verkaufverhandlungen befeuern und u.u. den preis weiter nach oben bringen ... aber falls da wirklich was im busch ist, alles auch noch weiter verzögern ...

tja - warten wir es ab ...

[Diva]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 43.007.629 von Diva am 05.04.12 15:24:08

upps ... sollte heißen:

"ich lasse diesmal die bilder und den text weg"

einfach anklicken ... vuzix wird auch wieder genannt ...

[Diva]

vorerst der letzte link


http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669455/4-problems-google-glasse…
ich lasse diesmal die bilder weg ....

spannend .... ich sag nur spannend ... und wir hier im auge des twister

[Diva]

und hier der bislang ausführlichste artikel

http://www.slashgear.com/my-wallet-is-open-google-now-hand-o…


"Project Glass has opened my eyes and my wallet: Google, please, come help yourself to my credit card. The much-rumored wearable augmented reality system has emerged from the Google[x] skunkworks and it’s even more than we hoped for. No clunky headset like a bad pair of swollen sunglasses, but a sleek slice of transparent display with just enough Star Trek: TNG hints to keep the geeks happy. With a concept video and a handful of rumors, though, there are still plenty of questions remaining. Google hasn’t talked technology regarding Project Glass, focusing instead on the potential user experience, but there’s enough here to slot together a few suggestions.



The eyepiece itself is a pretty specialist part: it takes some serious know-how to produce a transparent display that can float computer graphics on top of a real-world view without causing headaches or skewing problems. The obvious candidate is the Lumus OE-31 I played with last month; Google has no extreme close-ups of the screen, so it’s difficult to see if there’s a sign of the segmented vertical banding used to refract sections of the image into the eye. Lumus is quiet on the matter, but I’ve no doubt they’ll stick with their same “we can’t comment on any OEM partners” line as they gave us before.

Still, if it’s the OE-31, then that means nHD 640 x 360 resolution. Google seems to be positioning it slightly above the standard line of sight, at least going by its model photos – Lumus’ prototypes, in contrast, put the display directly in front of the eye – and the concept video seems to suggest a slight upward-glance movement is used to call down the icons. That implies eye-tracking, though there’s no sign of a camera for that as far as I can see.



Exactly how much intelligence is in the eyewear itself is also unclear. From talks with wearable display manufacturers like Lumus and Vuzix, it’s clear that there’s a considerable compromise involved if you want to make a fully self-contained device: you need to accommodate sufficient processing power, not to mention batteries to keep it going. Lumus’ OEMs are supposedly split between preferring tethered – i.e. with a wire going to a separate battery/processing pack – and wireless options; without more comprehensive photos of Project Glass we don’t yet know which way Google is leaning.

Still, given the diminutive scale of the headset – at least, the one we’ve seen so far; Google supposedly has several designs in testing – a tethered approach seems almost certain. The lightweight metal headband and slimline eyepiece section would have little room for anything other than the transparent display itself and the camera, along with maybe a button or two.

More likely, then, is that a separate device – probably an Android phone – is doing the heavy lifting, with either it or a standalone battery pack keeping Project Glass powered up. Data could be transmitted by that same wired connection or, for more flexibility, over a separate wireless link: Bluetooth 4.0 perhaps, for its low power consumption and boosted rates. That would make it easier for Project Glass to be used as a display for multiple devices, too, rather than demanding the video input be repeatedly unplugged and plugged.

A regular Android device would also give Google greatest flexibility in software. The obvious approach is a general video output app which can layer augmented reality data on top of information from other apps running on the phone – Google Maps, Latitude, Google+, etc. – and with some APIs for third-party services to lace their functionality in too. We’ve seen a similar approach from Sony recently, with its SmartWatch, using a main hub app to control the wrist-worn microdisplay and then plugins distributed through the Android Market to add capabilities.



On that front, Google has already done much of the software work necessary, at least on the backend. Google Goggles does object recognition, Google Maps has all the navigation data and, with Latitude, handles person tracking. Google+ brings its social networking and Hangouts, while we’ve already seen voice recognition baked into Android.

Left to do is pull that all together and – most vitally – make it usable while mobile. Wearables demand a new interaction paradigm, even more refined than the glanceable data today’s smartphones are beginning to offer with widgets and Live Tiles. Even if you only look at your smartphone screen for a few seconds, that’s a few seconds devoted to a single object: when the whole world in front of you has the potential to be a screen, there’s a lot more to consider. Not distracting too much, or in too potentially dangerous a way, is likely to be at the forefront of Google’s UI designers’ awareness. This is, after all, augmented reality, not dominated reality.

The benefits if they get it right could be astounding, however. The internet has already become our go-to encyclopedia, source of entertainment, social hub and workplace, among other things, but delving into it has generally been a process that distracts us from the real-world. Augmented reality has always promised to reverse that, injecting information into our lives, but systems to-date have been underwhelming: holding up a phone and peering “through” its display is hardly a seamless integration of real and virtual.




With Google I/O 2012 fast-approaching, it seems almost certain that Google will use the developer event to talk more about Project Glass. Who knows, maybe there’ll be prototypes handed out, just as the search company has distributed Android phones and tablets in previous years. If so, expect those to fetch even huger sums than the limited-edition Galaxy Tab 10.1 on eBay shortly after.

I’ll be watching those auctions closely, if that’s the case. In a world saturated with “the next big thing in smartphones” and “the tablet to kill them all” it’s tough to find something legitimately exciting and new: Project Glass has the potential to be just that. I’d certainly open up my wallet for it, and I’ve a suspicion there are plenty of others who will think the same."

[Diva]

und weiter ... es wird spannend ...


http://www.fellowgeek.com/a-Google-RD-working-on-Augmented-R…




" Google R&D working on Augmented Reality Glasses
Google is hard at work trying to fulfill a dream of mine: augmented reality glasses. That’s right, when Google said they were working on wearable devices they didn’t mean watches.

You have no clue how excited I am by this.

9To5Google claims that Google’s secret R&D think tank has been hard at work on thick-rimmed glasses with augmented reality capabilities powered by Google services. What does that mean? Imagine Google Goggles integration, where looking at a piece of art lets you pull up info on its creator. Or you glance at a CD cover and get a band biography floating in the air to the right, with price checks to the left. Or you tagged someone in Google+ but you don’t remember their name, but don’t worry, because its now floating above their head.

Sound like science fiction? Its not. Google recently updated Google Goggles so that it no longer needs to take a picture to pull up information. As you wave your phone (or any device that sports Android and a camera... Like glasses) in front of something, it will pull up information on it automagically.

9To5Google claims that the device is currently in the late prototyping stage, which is feasible given the state of the art for video glasses. Lumus has shown off near-production video glasses that do much the same thing, and Vuzix has also, though their augmented reality system uses a bulky camera snapped to the nose of their see-through glasses.

If Google has managed to take one of these devices, or a prototype that either of these companies hasn’t shown off yet, and make true VR goggles out of them, well, I don’t care how much they cost. I am buying a pair. Apple, on the other hand, has apparently decided that iPod watches are where the action is at."


und mal kurz eine nach links ausgeteilt ...

wer zuletzt lacht ...

[Diva]

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/tags/vuzix/


"Why Google is Diving into Augmented Reality Now

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Vuzix, one of the only companies of any size attempting to make AR glasses for consumers, has a display 720 pixels wide that is viewable through a monocle, and is intended for defense and industrial customers. (It's also priced accordingly, from $2,500 to $5,000 per unit.)

That means Vuzix managed to create a display with a higher resolution than the iPad 3, bright enough to be seen in daylight but transparent when switched off. Compare that to efforts by the company just two years ago to sell a significantly worse pair of AR glasses to get an idea of just how far this technology has come in a very short time.

Vuzix says it will have a consumer version of its high end display in a consumer model for $600 or less by 2013.

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In fact, let's make a bet: Apple is working on something like this already, and has been for some time. In 2010, Cupertino named wearable computing expert Richard DeVaul to the post of Senior Prototype Engineer"


lesenswert ....

[Diva]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 43.007.199 von sambanero am 05.04.12 14:05:50

passt scho ...

nur ... manchmal brauchen es die leute vorgekaut ... also für ihre DD und mosern dann immer noch rum ...

und die wahrscheinlichkeit, dass z.b. "new buys" einen interessanten link anklicken/lesen ist so einfach höher, da noch weniger aufwand ...

manche können es aber auch so nicht schätzen, also das andere ihre DD zur verfügung stellen - da sind`s dann perlen vor die säue ...

naja ... jeder wie er will und kann nach seinen möglichkeiten

grüßle - diva