Sergey Brin has been showing off Google's prototype Project Glass augmented-reality spectacles at a charity event in San Francisco. On Thursday evening Brin attended a "Dining in the Dark" event for the nonprofit Foundation Fighting Blindness, and used the opportunity to show off the glasses that Google started publicizing …

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Friday 6th April 2012 18:04 GMT Cliff

Also this one

http://www.b3ta.com/links/Goggle_Project_Dangerous_Glasses

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1. Friday 6th April 2012 19:24 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  And this one
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_mRF0rBXIeg
  
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Friday 6th April 2012 19:11 GMT Anonymous Coward

Let's just hope they finish the self driving car before the glasses.

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Friday 6th April 2012 22:32 GMT HeNe

Just the glasses

I want the glasses, and just the glasses.

I do not want the advertising and alleged services which Google undoubtedly will bundle with the glasses.

I want the glasses to use with my own wearable PC, programmed by me.

I think the Googlers are making their own, somewhat-simpler version of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaHUpWuqNHY

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1. Saturday 7th April 2012 15:16 GMT Andrew Baines
  
  Re: Just the glasses
  
  I think the best you'll get is 'just the adverts'.
  
  Why doesn't the press realise that Google's and advertising company, not a search/technology company.
  
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2. Tuesday 10th April 2012 15:40 GMT Michael Wojcik
  
  Re: Just the glasses
  
  > I want the glasses, and just the glasses.
  
  Really? I can't imagine ever wanting to use them, even for a moment. I'd have to go to some effort to come up with a user interface I'd find more annoying.
  
  But then I've never liked augmented-reality designs, since I first saw prototypes at SIGGRAPH in the early '90s. I have this marvelous ability to change which direction I am looking; that makes shoving additional visual information into my field of vision unnecessary.
  
  To each his own, I suppose.
  
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Saturday 7th April 2012 07:55 GMT Scott Broukell

Just what ....

are the specs of these things ?

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Saturday 7th April 2012 08:30 GMT Scott Broukell

If I had two of them .....

... would I have a pair of brinoculars ?

I guess they only come with chrome frames ?

Can't resist, cos this lens itself to humor.

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Saturday 7th April 2012 16:28 GMT Anonymous Coward

I know what's in the backpack

the f***ing batteries!

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1. Sunday 8th April 2012 14:26 GMT gerryg
  
  Learning from history
  
  Get Smart, a spoof spy series from the mid sixties, had a variety of wacky gadgets including the shoe phone:
  
  http://voices.yahoo.com/get-smart-shoe-phone-sold-3900000-ebay-566960.html
  
  If I remember correctly, one if its many drawbacks was that Max had to carry a suitcase around for the batteries, which was funny because everyone got the point about personal mobile communications being impossible because of the battery size problem.
  
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Monday 9th April 2012 09:57 GMT Matt Bryant

So what's new?

Anyone else remember those laughable TV ads for IBM's wearable PCs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flvd5gVT7fg), complete with uberdork glasses? And wearable PCs have been around for years, so many that even the US Army has been on on the act 1989 with their Land Warrior rig (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8izG26i_lTY). And then there were the headaches I gave myself trying out a pair of ELSA 3D Revelators back in the Summer of 2002, and that was a wireless version too. Common factor in all those prior examples? A lot of hardware needed to do the actual computing work. I'm guessing Sergey had a Nexus or an Android tablet in his backpack and a lot of beta drivers, all to make happen what everyone else has been doing for years. I'm sure the fanbois would buy it if it had an Apple logo on it, but otherwise I can't see many rushing to buy a pair.

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