Google Project Glass is coming next year, according to the man at the top. Whether you think the whole thing is a massive gimmick or genuinely the future of computing, you can be sure that an actual product is on the cards for a 2013 launch. And Google’s really not messing about: the company has just revealed that Project Glass has been in the works since 2009… Read more
Yesterday, Google’s CEO Larry Page made an appearance at the Google Zeitgeist event in London with some ungainly lump of plastic clinging to the side of his head. It was of course Google Glass, the company’s oddball new project that’s trying to mix Android, AR and your eyewear into one seamless whole.
Except it can’t, and it won’t. Google Glass has the potential to be the company’s biggest folly – a classic example of trying to get ahead of the curve by veering madly away from it. Why so bad? Because it shows a real lack of insight about the tech that’s currently sticking to the wall, and what’s been bouncing out of favour. Here’s what’s wrong… Read more
When Google first unleashed its Project Glass sci-fi mumbo-jumbo video the other week, we all scoffed. But then Google said it’s going to be a project that actually comes to market, and one immediate question sprang to mind: What about prescription lens wearers? Fret not: the big G’s got an answer for that. Read more
Project Glass, the rumoured augmented reality glasses experiment from Google, has been publicly revealed by the company for the first time. A demo of the concept and what it may be capable of in the future was published last night, but this isn’t some far-off vision: previous reports have said Google intends to release the glasses before the end of the year.
