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After Google going very public with Project Glass and Apple patenting a similar system, it’s now Microsoft’s turn to have a go at trying to invent a wearable augmented reality system that’ll help distract us even more in some future world.
The patent, filed with the USPTO, focuses mainly on the implementation of the tech to enhance live events, using overlays and glasses to augment the experience of watching sports and concerts outdoors. A bit like listening to the radio while watching cricket.
Microsoft’s system pulls up additional data on players and opens up access to action replays of events, so presumably involves some level of continual buffering, enabling users to pause and rewind their everyday lives. [USPTO via Unwired View]
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In the future we’ll all look like dicks.
In the past people commented “In the future we’ll all look like dicks”.
And so it came to pass – crowds of teenagers standing at bus stops all talking to themselves
I still can’t get into the “dickish” look of a bluetooth earpiece but tech-wise and ergonomically it makes so much sense. I suppose fashion will have to shift it’s butt a bit faster to catch up?
We may look nerdy now but isn’t the better experience worth it? I have been working with glasses but only using off the shelf technologies to create a system that we can use to have natural hand interactions with augmented data http://youtu.be/8FggsGUK5iA
This is just protective patenting I’m guessing. Having seen Google get into the market the other big guys (and some small ones) don’t dare being potentially left behind if the tech takes off. Of course they don’t have to actually make anything until/unless it does. If nothing else they have the possibility of Google wanting to cross licence their glasses tech to obtain access to something they have.
I kinda hope it does come to this..
Read this book, its great.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_State
and linked to this post..