“Developers who want to get their hands on Google’s Project Glass won’t have to wait much longer. Google announced plans Tuesday to hold a ‘Glass Foundry’ in San Francisco and New York in the coming weeks: two full days of hacking that will allow developers to get an early look at Glass and start developing for the platform. The first day of the event will be an introduction to Glass, while the second will explore the Mirror API, which ‘gives you the ability to exchange data and interact with the user over REST’. Google engineers will be on site to help developers at any point in the process.” Can’t wait to see what developers can do with this.
I have been waiting a long time for something like this, but I will not find it very interesting until it can do 3D (i.e. a display for each eye). I think overlays in space will be much more pleasant and probably more useful.
I also hope we don’t have to go around blinking and twitching and gesticulating like a Tourette’s Syndrome sufferer to use the thing! ;^)
The “3D” vs. “2D” terms are mostly marketing speak – most of the cues we humans use for depth perception don’t depend on stereo vision. “2D” films already have most of the cues we use (and “3D” do stereo wrong in some ways, very wrong parallax for example)
1. Marital aid – “Wow, honey, have you been working out?”
2. SAT’s
3. Improved realism in Grand Theft Auto
4. Finally able to get rid of your Nintendo Vitual Boy
5. Real-time translation of speeches by Jody Foster
6. Able to impress the girls at chess club
7. Improved chances at “Guess The Weight” games at carnivals
8. Take notes in class – and sleep!
9. Instantly receive the 20 best answers to the question, “Does this make my butt look big?”
10. Ability to watch advertisements 24/7
1) Make display wireless
2) Shrink the display down to the size of a contact lens
3) Install display on to a contact lens
4) Figure out how to power using the human body’s energy
5) Wear it
6) Write awesome software.