Google Shows Early Preview of Augmented Reality Glasses

Alphabet's Google, which failed to find a consumer audience for its internet-connected glasses about a decade ago, on Wednesday presented a prototype of augmented reality glasses aimed at the general public. Bloomberg: In a brief demonstration at its annual I/O developer conference, the company showed glasses using an AR version of Google Translate. The company didn't say when the glasses would be ready for consumers, but Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai indicated Google has a "long way to go" before releasing them. "It's important we design in a way that's built for the real world and doesn't take away from it," Pichai said.

Why couldn't you just put this under one topic?

[Virtucon]

Yes, Google announced *things* today, why not just put all of it under one topic?!?

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[Fly Swatter]

Three more chances to be clickbaited.

-AKA more profits.

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[Anonymous Crowded]

Fell for it.

Well, I guess they're trolling Google like they troll Apple . . . I'm just too exhausted with Google's nonsense to even be bothered with it.

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[Catvid-22]

Perhaps. But this is par for the course for events hosted by Apple, Microsoft, etc. That said, I think stories for device prototypes should be separate from stories for products that are mere iterations of current lines like the Pixel. Only problem's the story is low on details, including the product name, although it's easy to guess it won't include the word Glass.

Paywall

[im_thatoneguy]

There is tons of coverage today. WTF did the editors choose the one site with an ironclad paywall?

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[Arethan]

There's a paywall?
https://archive.ph/WYD2a [archive.ph]

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[Osgeld]

Lazy

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[coofercat]

I'm not sure what you're seeing, but for me I can see an article (for free) - it's about 1/3rd the width of the screen, and takes about 3/4 of the height of it if I discount the image from twitter (https://twitter.com/Google/status/1524464030668177409). Illuminatory, it is not. It's more or less just one of the longer slashdot summaries.

It does say, "Alphabet Inc.’s Google, which failed to find a consumer audience for its internet-connected glasses about a decade ago, on Wednesday presented a prototyp

Maybe the article tells; DNR, but

[SlideRuleGuy]

Which coffee shop were these found in?

Translation function is useful, but can I play...

[Shane A Leslie]

ZORK, Adventure, Colossal Caves, and all the other Text Adventure games AND allow me to access the internet and play on a MUD while I'm at work cleaning toilets and mopping floors? That's the selling point for me. Being able to keep myself amused and entertained with a turn based game while I do mindless manual labour is the objective of Capitalism innit?

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It autodetects pronouns, too

[iMadeGhostzilla]

As seen in the demo video: "Guillermo (he/him)," a "research participant", an older blue collar Hispanic guy, probably a correct guess.

Yawn

[OYAHHH]

If someone wanted these things a small company, who knew what they were doing, would have already successfully made/sold them.

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[chill]

You're crazy. These should be a huge hit with deaf people, at the very least -- and that doesn't even take into account translation.

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[ACisBack]

I'm curious about that. Many Deaf people don't see deafness as something that needs to be "fixed", so things like cochlear implants can be rather controversial. Is non-hearing focused, technologically Augmented communication thought of similarly?

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[chill]

My daughter-in-law is deaf. Lost her hearing as a child due to illness. She doesn't want a cochlear implant because the surgery looks too invasive. But most of her communication is via a cell phone thru messaging and the like. She also loves to read.

Because of where we live, she isn't part of a deaf community as one really doesn't exist around here.

She's chomping at the bit for something like this.

Oh YAY!

[Chas]

Revenge of the Glassholes.

I'll never know because I won't pay to read this.

[Kwirl]

it's 2022. learn your audience if you want to sell clicks.

Babelfish vs Google

[aRTeeNLCH]

Gotta love the Twitter quote, that translation would help to understand people, versus the reality that shows that people who speak the same language and know the words, don't want to understand the other side. The babelfish caused the most gruesome wars...