Abstract
Project Glass is a
research and development program by Google to develop an augmented reality
Head-Mounted Display (HMD). The intended purpose of Project Glass products
would be the hands-free displaying of information currently available to most
smartphone users, and allowing for interaction with the Internet via natural
language voice commands. These glasses will have the combined features of
virtual reality and augmented reality. Google glasses are basically wearable
computers that will use the same Android software that powers Android
smartphones and tablets.
Introduction
Virtual reality is
often used to describe a wide variety of applications commonly associated with
immersive, highly visual, 3D environments. The development of CAD software,
graphics hardware acceleration, head mounted displays, database gloves, and
miniaturization.
Wearable
Computing
Wearable computers,
also known as body-borne computers are miniature electronic devices that are
worn by the bearer under, with or on top of clothing. This class of wearable
technology has been developed for general or special purpose information
technologies and media development. Wearable computers are especially useful
for applications that require more complex computational support than just
hardware coded logics.
Eye Tap Technology
An EyeTap is a device
that is worn in front of the eye that acts as a camera to record the scene
available to the eye as well as a display to superimpose a computer-generated
imagery on the original scene available to the eye. This structure allows the
user's eye to operate as both a monitor and a camera as the EyeTap intakes the
world around it and augments the image the user sees allowing it to overlay
computer-generated data over top of the normal world the user would perceive.
The EyeTap is a hard technology to categorize under the three main headers for
wearable computing for while it is in
theory a constancy technology in nature it also has the ability to augment and
mediate the reality the user perceives.
Future
Scope
Google Glass is as
futuristic a gadget seen in recent times. It’s limited in scope right
now, but the future, Google believes, is bright and the device itself is
“incredibly compelling”.
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