Welcome to the not-too-distant future, where augmented reality glasses stream live information — emails, directions, video calls and more — directly into your vision. Google’s Project Glass is making it happen.
Google’s augmented reality glasses
Welcome to the not-too-distant future, where augmented reality glasses stream live information — emails, directions, video calls and more — directly into your vision. Google’s Project Glass is making it happen.
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Its bad enough coping with pedestrians that are distracted by earphones, glasses will add a whole new traffic hazard.
You know they’re just going to be used to perve on people. Cleavage shots of that random hot chick walking by, shots of that hot chick’s ass being uploaded and shared around the internet…
At least now, when your boss does something stupid, you’ll be able to record it on camera and play it back on YouTube for all your friends!
I wonder if George Orwell ever had it in mind that it’d be the population doing the recording of everything themselves?
tIn Adelaide recently, a young woman listening to her ipad-like device through earphones did not hear the frantic calls of warning from people on the platform before she walked through a crossing and in front of a train. She, of course, did not survive.