Project Glass- Technology of the Future

Considering how advanced technology is today, can you imagine the possibilities for the future? We have all the information we could ever need at the touch of a button. Google is taking technology to a new level with Project Glass!

Project Glass, developed by Google, demonstrate augmented reality glasses that show users information right in front of their eyes. Augmented reality is a live, direct or indirect, to view a real-world environment. The elements of the real-world environment are augmented by a computer generated sensory that allows you to be in the moment; showing the viewer a virtual reality.  A day wearing the Google glasses would look something like this:

It seems to be a convenient way keep up with everything going on in your life; it gives you all the information you would have on a smart phone and displaying it in front of your eyes in glasses. Google considers the glasses to be "wearable computing." You can control the information being received on your glasses by voice command. Google is just beginning to test the glasses in the public hoping to receive valuable input allowing Google to make the glasses even more convenient for people to use. Google wants the glasses to look sleek and graceful, not clunky and obtrusive and also comfortable for the user to wear day to day. 

The Google glasses will keep the user from reaching into their pockets to gather information while they are on the run, they can now have everything they need right in front of their eyes. The glasses will allow them to do everything they can with a smartphone like sending messages, checking email, taking phone calls, navigation, turn by turn GPS, and even capturing photos and videos. The pictures will be a display of exactly what you are seeing through the glasses. Employees of Google have compared the look of the glasses to Oakley Thumps. Google considers the project to be more of an experiment rather than a business opportunity. By making these glasses available to the public, Google is allowing anyone to partake in the virtual Google experiment. 

Google is estimating these glasses will cost about as much as a smart phone, $250-$600, and are still making different models for the look of the glasses. Google is estimating that the glasses will be on sale to the public by the end of the year.