4 HN mentions · mentioned in 4 months, 2012–2013
2:31 · 22M views · Apr 4, 2012
Google's early concept video for Project Glass, showing a wearer navigating a city with augmented-reality glasses that surface contextual information. It was made when the project was just starting.
HN refers to it as the aspirational Glass vision, often contrasted with what the product actually delivered.
4 comments from Hacker News
Those are excellent questions. I obviously hope Glass has a barometer but I highly doubt it will, since it is likely going to use phones to handle GPS and similar operations. So assuming it doesn't have one: > Would you ask people to take pics of the sky? Yeah, maybe. I'll add more to that below. > What does Glass add that currently isn't possible WRT gathering data? Since we don't know the hardware specs in very much detail, the only functionality that we know for sure that will be helpful is the camera. The key difference between this camera and a phone camera is that this one is on the user's head. Asking users to take sky photos is likely much less intrusive through Glass than through a phone. But asking them to do this isn't really our style: The original Glass demo video showed the wearer just looking at the sky in order to have weather information delivered [1]. I was imagining something like this for pressureNET. If I could hook into that same operation, I'd be able to automatically take a photo of the sky whenever the user intentionally looks up. Imagine millions of people every day looking at the sky. So. Much. Data. And of course, this is only using the camera that we know is there. We'll have to learn more about how Glass actually works and what developers will be allowed to access in terms of background functionality. [1]: this video
When I saw the keynote introducing Google Now, the first thing I thought of was that concept video they used to introduce Glass [1]. For example, in the video, the user looked at a subway station entrance, and the glasses showed a rider alert that the station was closed due to a train problem. I have to imagine that Google Now will be an important information engine behind the "HUD" displays in Glass. Glass is aiming to also follow that principle of offering you information when it's contextually-relevant, and trying to get out of the way otherwise. [1] this video
They did the concept video this video I guess that's the long term goal. I haven't seen any real-world previews yet. I guess that's what is most exciting about the hardware going to developers soon, we should see some images.
Google's Project Glass [0], which depicts a user entering a book store and wanting to locate the "Music section." [1] [0] [LINK] [1] this video