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SciFi to SciFact: “Terminator” Glasses

SciFi to SciFact: “Terminator” Glasses

February 8, 2012 By Mike Hickerson 5 Comments

Remember the glasses from the Terminator movies that showed information on the lenses?  Google is working on something similar.

The company has reportedly produced a new pair of augmented reality glasses that beam real-time information from services such as Google Maps in a Terminator-style heads-up display (HUD).

9to5Google claims to have seen a prototype of the Google Goggles, that the site says closely resemble the Thump glasses made by Oakleys, which feature a built-in audio system.

Last December, it was reported that Google was working on a new pair of high-tech glasses that were essentially a wearable HUD that could tap into Google’s cloud-based applications for information based on the user’s surroundings.

This data, from services such as Google Maps, would then appear to the user as an augmented reality computer display.

According to 9to5Google, the glasses not only exist, but they also do a lot more than just AR. The website claims that the goggles have a tiny front-facing camera with a flash that can gather information and take photos. They will also run a navigation system operated by the user tilting their head to scroll and click, it says.

The site further claims that the Google Goggles will have voice input and output, as well as the equivalent CPU, RAM and storage of an older generation Android smartphone.

Filed Under: Technology News Tagged With: Sci-Fi to Sci-Fact

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Comments

  1. krazeytrucker says

    February 8, 2012 at 5:06 pm

    Those glasses didn’t display anything. The info was in his eyes. He got the glasses from the guy he stole the clothes from. Only living tissue or anything encased in living tissue could be transported.

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  2. Lejon from Chandler says

    February 8, 2012 at 6:42 pm

    Thank you, krazeytrucker, I was about to say something similar. However, if they wanted to say that the glasses worked like a Terminator’s HUD, I couldn’t fault them in that…

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  3. Jayson says

    February 9, 2012 at 7:10 pm

    Did they even bother watching “Terminator”? Anyway, if they want to cite a reference I would say “Mission Impossible” or “Back To The Future II”

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  4. movieman says

    February 12, 2012 at 11:05 am

    Believe me those glasses won’t look the same on someone else’s face, he is great in many ways. He is Mr. Charisma 🙂

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  5. Kurt in St. George says

    February 28, 2012 at 12:36 am

    The type of technology described above; or something very close to it, is used in Daemon and its sequel, Freedom (TM) by Daniel Suarez. Mike and Mike interviewed the author on The Dragon Page when his book came out a couple of years ago.

    (Good books by the way.)

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