Source: Project Glass G+ page
Back in January of 2010, Mobilist Rudy de Waele asked a number of us to predict the Mobile Trends for the decade of 2010-2020. The result of this was a great compendium of views on things to come in this decade; see Mobile Trends 2020 – A look into the future of mobile.
A few days ago Google announced the Project Glass (G+):
Pretty cool it is that this awesome announcement/project is in line (and ahead of schedule) with my prediction/contribution to Mobile Trends 2020 on AR visors that I made back in 2010 (slide 40):
“AR becomes standardized and absorbed into the web browser as a View, similar to today’s “street vs. map view. We (will) start to see the initial phase of the 5th screen, “visors” that work together with the mobile handset extending digital augmentation from the handset screen (the 4th screen) onto “eye-glasses” (the 5th screen). The handset is the personal gateway, between personal sensors and services and the applications on the Internet.”
I’m very excited about this announcement. The “glasses” approach is closer to reality and will appeal to the masses much more than “AR contact lenses” (which we are still many years away from; much more challenging to implement).
Project Glass is an exploratory project or experiment, and today we have all the technology pieces needed to make this happen today, but it will take the rest of the decade+ to understand and perfect this super cool technology and the new types of interactions and related information flows that this brings/introduces, and bring this to the masses.
I am looking forward to getting my hands on a pair of these Google AR glasses.
ceo