The $1500 Glasses You’ll Have to Have

I don't know how or if they compensate for the eye changing focus from near to far. I suspect that there has to be some parallels to the military use of a heads up display in a cockpit. As such a lot of the development costs have already happened. I just do not see this becoming common in the future. I suspect that this will just be another high tech fad like AOL or MySpace.

They could do like the pirates did, wear an eye patch. They kept one eye for darkness and one eye for light, this could be one eye for display and one for the workpiece.

Well that's just distracting and annoying!

My wife will probably want one now.

Put me down for don't want and certainly don't have to have.

It should be noted that the $1500 price tag is sensationalized. That was the price for the devkits, which are generally more expensive than the retail version.

Also, based on my observations of technology, the first generation will be expensive (and honestly, a little buggy). Consequential generations will probably reduce the price and improve how it can be integrated with modern processes in industry, so I'm not really expecting any kind of major innovations just yet.

Regardless, I've been devouring information regarding these glasses, and I'm extremely excited to see all the applications post-launch when the developers start releasing tools for it.

On a side note: Is anyone aware if any major companies that have a focus on 3D graphics and engineering tools such as AutoCAD / Solidworks / NVidia are working on anything with the devkits? I think combining cloud based grfx capabilities of the NVIDIA products under development with these glasses could go a long way in creating 3D models just by looking at an object. Then, you could just slip the model file into your 3D printer to create a prototyped version... the future is amazing.

Traffic enforcement and documentation of time and coordinates.

Evidence collection.

Do they come in BIFOCAL?

The actual glass bit rests outside of the "glasses".

As for whether we can get prescription / bifocals in there has yet to be determined (as far as I know), but I can't see why they wouldn't be able to just slide a couple of glasses in a more "framed" version of this.

As for functionality, it's very gimicky (as in it's obviously trying to sell you something) but the video should be looked over to see some of the things it can already do. Couple that with the fact that you can already connect the glass to your android / apple devices creates a whole world worth of possibilities.

Lastly, at the point of comparing it to Myspace or AOL, I should note that both were major power houses in terms of internet familiarity and usage. What ultimately led to both of their demise is the lack of innovation to keep up as trends continued to move forward. This folly is easily countered by the fact that these glasses are made by Google, perhaps one of the leading innovators in terms of how we use the internet today.