Google begs for secrecy as it files Glass design with FCC Google has lodged information about its forthcoming “Glass” spectacle-mounted computer with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), but has asked that many details be kept from the public eye. Available here, the eight PDF files the FCC has made public comprise correspondence between Google and the FCC and the results …
"...if you'll excuse the pun. What about the large percentage of us who already have to wear glasses? Will we now be forced to use contacts (which I do not like) in order to use Glass?"
Since we already have the frame, surely we can be sold a cheaper model that clips onto it. From what I've heard from non-glasses wearing people moaning about how weird 3D glasses feel, the only people who would feel comfortable wearing Google's Glass is current glasses wearers anyway.
On the other hand, BT headsets became an accessory for a few so I'm probably wrong.
I thought the same, to lazy to do a proper search but..
"According to the Vision Council of America, approximately 75% of adults use some sort of vision correction. About 64% of them wear eyeglasses, and about 11% wear contact lenses, either exclusively, or with glasses"
I like the idea of a HUD for me noggin, but this first attempt at commercialising the idea doesn't look like it will deliver. From what I've seen, it's just moving the display from something such as a mobile phone to a screen in front of your eye. It will become interesting when the technology is there to do proper AR, eg. have the displayed graphics track and label things in the real world.
Just sticking an email in front of me is neat, but not the future I'm still waiting for.
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Wish the author of this article would research the topic and not make sensationalist headlines, poor journalism IMHO and obviously a slow news day. Google have not begged the FCC for secrecy, the FCC allow short term confidentiality to be granted for everyone who requests it when they have their products certified by the FCC, IT IS NOTHING SPECIAL.
As for the product, it is nothing special either, just a display mounted on some glasses connected to a phone or tablet via bluetooth, just another excuse for walking into something or getting run-over.
Seconded.
This is completely normal procedure for anything requiring FCC approval (in other words anything with a radio transmitter). The only story here is that google have a prototype ready with what they hope will be final or very close to final hardware.
The records (including full test reports, internal and external photos etc...) then normally become public within a day or two of the product being released.
It all makes those web sites rushing to post pictures of the internals of the latest product a little redundant since the FCC normally has photos of the same things online around the same time.
If in doubt find anything with a radio transmitter, read the FCC ID on it (on a sticker on the back or in the battery compartment, on phones it's normally under the battery). Look that ID number up on this site:
http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid/ and you'll find photos, manuals, descriptions and test reports on the product.
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