Google Glasses To Enhance Users’ Normal Sight With Computational Information

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The image of Seattle being refracted through myopic glasses (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Google envisions Google glasses which enhances users’ normal sight with computational information. For an example, when you look up and at the sky, the Google glasses might tell you the weather information. When you need to use a Google map, just speak out loud and the Google glasses will understand your natural language and pull up a Google map with complete direction. Turn by turn direction? Not a problem! Furthermore, Google glasses can even snap a picture and allow you to either do a voice chat or video chat with friends. How about email? Not a problem! So basically, you can do a lot by just wearing a Google glasses, and the only requirements you ever need are your own voice and the intelligence which understands the information that Google glasses digitally draws onto your normal sight. The video right after the break will demonstrate Google glasses concept. I don’t think this is yet a product, but it might be if Google dares to push this concept ahead.

Personally, I think Google glasses will be so distracting that I might get a headache from using it. Perhaps, if Google does it right, then Google glasses — if become the real product — might not be so bad. Nonetheless, just thinking about Google glasses and how the information might interfere my normal sight is rather giving me a headache already. Perhaps, if you can switch between normal sight and enhance sight mode, then it won’t be too bad all the time. In fact, if you can switch between normal sight and enhance sight, Google glasses might become a super useful eyewear. Additionally, I think Google glasses can also be very useful for teleconference type of meeting (i.e., more than two or three people meeting up virtually through the use of Google glasses)!

Oh, I can already here you say, can this be the next iPhone? I don’t see why not if in the near future people rather wear Google glasses than carrying around an iPhone. Then of course, Google glasses has to allow people dial the phone numbers through voice. Perhaps, with Google glasses, people might call each other up and see each other too if both users have their Google glasses on at the same time. Intriguing? How about the idea of playing games and using all types of apps with Google glasses? For this to work, Google might have to incorporate Kinect technology or similar technology into Google glasses. One thing which I’ve a hard time imagining is the large amount of sophisticated technology that will get cram into something as small as a Google glasses. Can Google do it? Obviously, we don’t know, but at least we can bet that Google has the cash and the brains to boldly go about figuring this one out!

Just an update to this post! I think Google glasses might take the argument of privacy to the whole new level. How come? If Google or anyone else has the access to how Google glasses stores information, that’s if Google glasses does stores what it sees, then there will be very little privacy one might has when using Google glasses. Perhaps, people who are interacting with you when you’re wearing Google glasses can get very uncomfortable since they might think that anyone who has access to your Google glasses (besides you of course) can actually spying on them as they are interacting with you either face to face or through the pipe of the Internet. This reminds us that hackers might love this kind of technology, because if without proper security, hackers can totally have a really close up and intimate kind of access to a Google glasses wearer and the people that interact with the Google glasses wearer. What do you think?