Hey future! Watch your freakin' back, here we come!
Google plans to launch glasses with a heads-up display by the end of 2012, the New York Times reports citing sources familiar with the matter.
The glasses, who were previously rumored to have a front-facing camera with flash and a voice input interface, will be Android based, sources say.
They will include a display, mere inches from the wearer's eye, streaming real-time info about your surroundings, similar to the various augmented reality applications we've seen on smartphones.
The data will be fetched through a 3G/4G data connection, and the glasses will retrieve information about their surroundings through GPS and several sensors.
The glasses will cost "around the price of current smartphones," sources say. While definitely not very precise – current smartphones cost anywhere from $150 to $600 – this price range shows that Google intends the glasses as a product for the mass market.
Now, of course some idiot will ruin this for everybody by trying to watch online porn while they're driving, but for one shining moment, it'll be a binary Camelot.
[Source: Mashable via Isidra Person-Lynn]