ISTA 301 Blog: Google Glass

      One of my previous posts was about cyborgs and I touched on an amazing piece of technology Google Glass. To me this is one of the coolest concepts I've been exposed to in years. If you didn't see the video last time here it is again:

      If only it were here already. The idea of effortless control over technology demonstrated in the video makes me very excited for the future. We can see that you can video chat (Google Hangout), send and receive text messages, make calls and get turn-by-turn navigation at the blink of an eye. To me its just mind blowing so I've got to dive further into augmented reality. Wondering what Wikipedia's definition of augmented reality is? So am I, so here it is:

            Augmented Reality (AR) is a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world 

            environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such 

            as sound, video, graphics or GPS data.

      Pretty straight forward and nothing really surprising there. Its a technology that has come along directly with the development of faster computers, cheap cameras and better video graphics. Combine all that with smartphones it has made augmented reality possible in everyone's pocket. Sweet! I don't know about you but I have always wanted cool holographic HUD's like Tony Stark has in Iron Man. There's also plenty of other great examples of augmented reality technology. Digitalbuzz did a great article about some HERE. This new technology has unlimited possibilities in my mind. I'll leave with a cool video of Google Glass being demonstrated live.

-Laters