Video: Google's Straight-Out-of-Sci-Fi Augmented Reality Glasses

Would totally love this!

You know, one of the great things about computers is you can avoid them when desired. If people are effected from too much time in front of a computer today (headaches, mental exhaustion, sore eyes, carpel tunnel, etc.) what is going to happen in 50-100 years when you can't get away from a computer? I don't desire to become one with the machine, even if it is a really, really cool machine.

Solution to your question, take off the glasses....

Like any good cookie in your computer, whatever is giving you source of information on your glasses, could and most likely keeping track at all the places you go and all the things you are looking at.

Google really likes build and keep data bases, so does the government or other organizations... ;)

This seems more like a 1st April joke , than a real product
and it seems it's going to be filled with bugs
It's one thing to record video clip and add later animation ,than to record ''REAL Google Glasses'' in action

I agree with Franky_Son, I would really like to know what they actually look/feel like when wearing them as opposed to a super cool video to get people hyped up about it.

It is certainly not an April 1st joke. This product was leaked a while back. And I have been waiting for the announcement. I have absolutely no info to share about it other than I heard that it is a real product in development from an engineer who worked at Google.

I personally really do believe that Google as a company TRIES to not do any evil. Sometimes their love for gathering data puts them in some gray areas.

I fear that they will not be able to fight the temptation to
collect data about me and use that data to display localized and relevant ads. As long as the product does not do that I wont have to hack it to prevent said advertisments.

Either way I will not be able to resist this product!

This is the coolest thing to come out of Google since gmail.
Way better than self driving cars.

We have to be careful as we integrate technology more into our personal lives. Think about how much information Google will have on you. They will know where and when you are, what you're doing, what you're spending your money on, which payment method you select... etc.

That makes a very attractive target for hackers. It also weakens us as individuals because we become so dependent on a system.

I'm not knocking the tech, I'd probably use it, myself. But I think we should always approach these things with a grain of caution.

Imagine hacking a bank tellers glasses. Playback: door code

With these glasses and self driving cars I would enjoy bad traffic.

If you notice at the end of the video, it gives to website "g.co/projectglass". This is the Google+ account for the team working on the AR glasses. It also shows 5 or 6 pictures of the glasses.

Scary! And at the other end of the line sits Big Brother Google watching your every step, recording all your conversations and every single minute of your life. Of course, only to post it instantly on facebook, so if you didn't get those magic moments in your life the first time, you can play 'em back later. To you, your buddies, or maybe just the whole rest of the world.

I'm buying these no matter what.....finally some true AR tech that is futuristic and practical.

eh not that cool. life is not a video game, i dont want anything to try and change that perception. besides those of us that wear glasses know how annoying regular eyewear can be. they get dropped, scratched, sat on and broken way to often. my current set is titanium with ultra light lenses and they still get t be bothersome when i have a stuffy nose.

as for batterylife, if they used the new nanowires i hear about then itll only take a small battery to power the device all day.

btw i wonder if google will trademake iglasses for the name just to annoy apple....

Basically, this is just a cell phone, google maps, and a projection camera. I said this back when google bought Motorola; "Motorola will basically be this device's access to the cloud - the cloud being the centerpiece of this technology. As we all know google is the king of information on the cloud - they store massive amounts of it and they will for sure feed massive amounts to these glasses. Most importantly, google has for a while talked about the need to map indoor structures in addition to the outdoor structures they already map with satellites and google street mapping cars. One of the biggest obstacle to accomplishing the mapping of indoor structures was the manpower needed to cover the massive number of structures. This technology though, potentially solves that problem for google. I would be willing to bet that google will encourage customers to submit their own mappings. It will only take one person wearing the glasses and perhaps, at the most, depending on the size of the indoor structure, about 10-20 minutes to walk through a structure and that's it, google has a map. Essentially, we will all end up working for google!

Imagine this technology shrunk down into a contact lens size... If you couple this with current infra-red and night vision technology, you would have one very cool piece of equipment.

for all those who are worried about "big brother" and such....Its no different then a smart phone. It just sits above your eye. So what ever data a smartphone is already collecting. This will be no different.

obviously people are scared of having their privacy invaded, so something really cool would be if these were smart enough to tell you information about what your looking at (such as time and temp, reminders, translate, power levels) without being online then that would be cool. of course theirs certain things you need to be online for such as looking up a piece of art you saw to see its title and artist, or even better an optional auto function that gives you information about what your looking at automatically. I have no problem with auto function and time savers that invade your privacy as long as their optional

Oh great... Now when someone's talking with their friend on their "smart" glasses and looking at you, YOU'LL be the rude one to start up a conversation, because they're looking at you! Stupid technology in my opinion...

The idea of implementing augmented reality sounds like a great idea, but I seriously think Google should wait longer to release such a product like this, possibly even a few years if they want the technology to really take off. Inventions are all about timing. If something really "sci-fi" comes during a time setting that isn't all that "sci-fi" a lot of people probably aren't going to buy it. People will probably see the technology as bizarre and unpopular. If something really advanced comes during a time that is not as advanced, I don't think as many people will buy it. If a lot of people don't start buying this technology from the get-go it will be seen as unpopular and will strongly affect people buying them later on I think. The same thing happened with virtual reality. It came at a time when society was not ready for it.

Black Fridays at Walmart will never be the same.

Kinda makes Siri look like...yesterday. That said, I have an iPhone 4S and I like Siri, but I'd stick it in a homeless woman's tuna just to get a chance with this device.

this totally reminds me of the episode of Futurama with the "eye phone" just not quite as painful...

I wait for glasses like this for a while now. I just hope they improve the UI a bit... in that top picture that would be exactly the moment where you fall down the stairs because the message blocks most of your sight, especially if you look at the stairs to not fall down...