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Google patents its augmented reality Project Glass

AVTizzle 14y ago
Still think this project needs to be rebranded "Googley-Eyes".
AkThhhpppt 14y ago
...How? I mean, there's prior art all over: Steve Mann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann) has been doing this kind of thing since the '80s!
- nooneelse 14y ago
  Their specific design and perhaps some of their technologies might be patentable. But yeah, lots of prior art on the ideas and even some implementations exist. Another source for what was/is obvious to those of ordinary skill this art would be the Wear-Hard Archives (http://www.haven.org/mailman/listinfo/wear-hard http://www.haven.org/mailman/listinfo/wear-hard). I miss the days when that list was more active.
  - AkThhhpppt 14y ago
    Even their specific design is pretty close to some old Mann hardware (http://www.glogger.mobi/userpub2.php?username=mann&i=2012_04_16_15_51_36_06246800 http://www.glogger.mobi/userpub2.php?username=mann&i=201..., which I've linked to...well, it's "below" currently). Never knew about that list; time for an archive trawl, I think. Thanks!
    - nooneelse 14y ago
      Similar to a degree, but I can't tell from Google's publicly shown designs if they are even going for the eye-tap paradigm. So far the camera and display are spatially separated and one has to look up from a scene to see the display. Though I suppose they may be thinking that common use-cases will involve rotating one's head down a bit while maintaining one's line of sight, similar to "looking over one's glasses", which would bring their screen between the user's eye and what one is looking at.
patentnerd 14y ago
The article has no links, but I'm assuming they're referring to the patents linked in this article: http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/15/google-glasses-design-patent/ http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/15/google-glasses-design-pat... These are design patents, meaning they protect the look of the glasses, NOT any of the functionality.
- AkThhhpppt 14y ago
  Even then: http://www.glogger.mobi/userpub2.php?username=mann&i=2012_04_16_15_51_36_06246800 http://www.glogger.mobi/userpub2.php?username=mann&i=201...
iharris 14y ago
The potential applications of this technology are pretty awesome - I just hope that we don't see Google ads superimposed on every blank surface we look at.
- nooneelse 14y ago
  Why would they put them over blank surfaces? They could put their ads over billboards and other ad surfaces that are already around you? That way you like them for not increasing the net number of ads you see, and they get to act as gate-keepers for all other ad forms.
  - AkThhhpppt 14y ago
    And they already have relevant patents, in a different arena: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_could_soon_augment_old_billboards_in_street.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_could_soon_augme...
  - slowpoke 14y ago
    I've actually been waiting for such a functionality for ages - except I would use it to adblock everything, even in real life. No more pesky ad noise == quality of life significantly improved.
    - AkThhhpppt 14y ago
      Yet again, Steve Mann was there first: http://cyborganthropology.com/Diminished_Reality http://cyborganthropology.com/Diminished_Reality Sorry for the monomania, but the man really did pioneer a huge chunk of wearable computing and AR.
      - slowpoke 14y ago
        That is nice. Time to read up a bit about this man. Thank you.
  - iharris 14y ago

Still think this project needs to be rebranded "Googley-Eyes".

...How? I mean, there's prior art all over: Steve Mann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann) has been doing this kind of thing since the '80s!

nooneelse 14y ago
Their specific design and perhaps some of their technologies might be patentable. But yeah, lots of prior art on the ideas and even some implementations exist. Another source for what was/is obvious to those of ordinary skill this art would be the Wear-Hard Archives (http://www.haven.org/mailman/listinfo/wear-hard http://www.haven.org/mailman/listinfo/wear-hard). I miss the days when that list was more active.
- AkThhhpppt 14y ago
  Even their specific design is pretty close to some old Mann hardware (http://www.glogger.mobi/userpub2.php?username=mann&i=2012_04_16_15_51_36_06246800 http://www.glogger.mobi/userpub2.php?username=mann&i=201..., which I've linked to...well, it's "below" currently). Never knew about that list; time for an archive trawl, I think. Thanks!
  - nooneelse 14y ago
    Similar to a degree, but I can't tell from Google's publicly shown designs if they are even going for the eye-tap paradigm. So far the camera and display are spatially separated and one has to look up from a scene to see the display. Though I suppose they may be thinking that common use-cases will involve rotating one's head down a bit while maintaining one's line of sight, similar to "looking over one's glasses", which would bring their screen between the user's eye and what one is looking at.

patentnerd 14y ago

The article has no links, but I'm assuming they're referring to the patents linked in this article: http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/15/google-glasses-design-patent/ http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/15/google-glasses-design-pat... These are design patents, meaning they protect the look of the glasses, NOT any of the functionality.

AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Even then: http://www.glogger.mobi/userpub2.php?username=mann&i=2012_04_16_15_51_36_06246800 http://www.glogger.mobi/userpub2.php?username=mann&i=201...

iharris 14y ago

The potential applications of this technology are pretty awesome - I just hope that we don't see Google ads superimposed on every blank surface we look at.

nooneelse 14y ago
Why would they put them over blank surfaces? They could put their ads over billboards and other ad surfaces that are already around you? That way you like them for not increasing the net number of ads you see, and they get to act as gate-keepers for all other ad forms.
- AkThhhpppt 14y ago
  And they already have relevant patents, in a different arena: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_could_soon_augment_old_billboards_in_street.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_could_soon_augme...
- slowpoke 14y ago
  I've actually been waiting for such a functionality for ages - except I would use it to adblock everything, even in real life. No more pesky ad noise == quality of life significantly improved.
  - AkThhhpppt 14y ago
    Yet again, Steve Mann was there first: http://cyborganthropology.com/Diminished_Reality http://cyborganthropology.com/Diminished_Reality Sorry for the monomania, but the man really did pioneer a huge chunk of wearable computing and AR.
    - slowpoke 14y ago
      That is nice. Time to read up a bit about this man. Thank you.
- iharris 14y ago