Seth Weintraub - 10,000 Words http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words Where Journalism and Technology Meet Copyright 2013 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:01:19 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Google Glasses: Augmented Reality or Dystopian Horror? Google is expected to start selling glasses by the end of the year. No, they are not foraying into optometry, but rather finding a new way to stream the contents of your smartphone straight at your eyeballs.  The glasses, which reportedly resemble a pair of Oakley Thumps, will run on Android and be equipped with 3G, 4G, GPS and a low-resolution camera. Other Google technologies like Google Latitudes and Maps could superimpose information to augment your reality—say, tell you what’s nearby, or what your friends think of that restaurant.

The glasses, which are expected to cost around the price of a smartphone ($250-600), would have a small screen a few inches from the wearer’s eye. Seth Weintraub at 9 to 5 Google reports that head tilting would be used to navigate the device, which will be easy to learn, becoming “second nature and almost indistinguishable to outside users.” But one man’s augmented reality could be another’s dystopian horror. The New York Times’ Nick Bilton thought perhaps the future bodes “throngs of people in thick-framed sunglasses lurching down the streets, cocking and twisting their heads like extras in a zombie movie.” continued…

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]]> Mona Zhang http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/google-glasses-augmented-reality-dystopian-horror-goggles-smartphone_b11178#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/google-glasses-augmented-reality-dystopian-horror-goggles-smartphone_b11178 http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/?p=11178 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:42:12 +0000