Google Glasses First Look: Would You Wear These Augmented Reality Specs?

Gizmodo - We first heard rumors about Google’s augmented reality glasses a few months ago, and now in a post on Google Plus, the company revealed “Project Glass”along with some early concepts and prototype designs. These specs look like the freaky science fiction concept they are. Would you wear them, though?

Watch this video of what the world would look like from behind these glasses. It’s like Iron Man except instead of important world-saving information you’re answering your friend’s text messages and learning about delays on the subway. The Google[x] team that’s working on the project says they’ve opened it up to the public to solicit ideas about what people actually want from a set of augmented reality specs.          More

Is Google working on high-tech spectacles?

CNET - Google is reportedly designing eyeglasses that could display information on the world around us.

The high-tech specs purportedly would tap into Google’s cloud-based location services to convey details about the user’s surroundings. The visual information would then appear as a 3D augmented reality computer display.

Known as wearable head-up displays (HUDs), the glasses are reportedly in the late prototype stage, says tech news site 9to5Google. Based on information from one of its sources, the site describes the glasses as similar in appearance to conventional eyeglasses but with a few buttons on the arms. The actual display technology is unknown, but 9to5Google speculates that it may use a transparent LCD or AMOLED screen.

The report follows a story in yesterday’s New York Times claiming that both Google and Apple are hard at work fashioning wearable technology.                 More