Google goggles with Terminator HUD 'coming soon' Google is actually working on twitch-responsive sci-fi-style head-up display glasses, according to a report by 9TO5Google. And the new tech apparently includes a cursor that responds to head movements. The article includes great eye-candy, including a clip from CES 2012 on Motorola's headset computer and a Terminator clip. …
Tech already exists in the Apache gunship where the pilot and gunner's eyes are monitored so that the main gun is slaved to the eyeline of the controlling officer. If such tech could be miniaturised and built into a pair of glasses, you could pretty easily use blinks or other eye movements to manipulate the data.
The only problem I can see at this point (pun not intended, honest!) is malware that, when you look at some pretty young thing almost wearing something, automatically calls your wife and sends her the 3d video feed..
Some sort of RDP/VNC over bluetooth? Sounds like a good idea for the 5 minutes that the battery would last once it was switched on.
Unless of course, you pay the extra for the battery handcart.
And lets not mention that Google will be storing everything you do, all the things you look at and your head-twitch response to scantily-clad MOTAS..
Unless there's going to be a dorky looking headband option, it will be so easy for robbers to run past and snatch them off people's faces.
With that in mind, such technology might be better suited to professional environments where no one nearby is likely to be a thief.
An IR and UV display mode will be most useful to a few professions I can think of, and even more if it has a 12MP camera and LCD with zoom mode.
I think a bluetooth remote control would be most useful - something small that you wear like a fingerless glove or an inward facing ring worn on your index finger and controlled with your thumb. Could be quicker to use than awkward voice or head movements. (Remember where you heard this first!)
Is the obvious hook here. twin cameras taking 3d photos and video, with the twin lenses playing it back. Full 3d overlay for augmented reality and this is the start of the endpoint where smartphones have been heading since conception.
The easy theft is a bit of a problem where they could be snatched off your head, but perhaps things like retina recognition etc. can make them almost useless to thieves.
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Artillery is the first thing that comes to mind...
Look at target
One blink <marks target>
Two quick blinks <fire for effect>
<distant thump>
<chirpy female voice> "Shot"
"Splash in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, __"
<massive detonation at target>
"mission complete, have a nice day!" </chirpy female voice>
Left-Right headshake cancels target select
Your HUD is going to become an irritating barrage of location-based marketing, where you walk down the street while your Googlasses helpfully point out that businesses on the side of the road have a Wednesday meatloaf special or are offering 2-for-1 specials on herbal erectile supplements!!
...Google would also like to know everywhere we go, everything we see and say, as well as everything we hear - for good measure.
On the one hand, I'd say fuck off. But on the other, this sort of technology is inevitable. What we really need are some equally visionary law-makers to bolster our privacy rights so that companies like Google can only use the data they slurp for the things we say they can (without making it a choice between accepting everything or being excluded from what will become fundamental to interacting with society as a whole). You know; in the same way they haven't done with the Internet... muppets.
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