Google’s much-hyped “Project Glass” (now officially Google Glass) has been gaining momentum since 2012. Glass differs from other wearables as it is a forward-thinking device. Since Steve Mann and his colleagues started wearing clunky goggles attached to giant backpack computers, techies the world over have been waiting for the consumer
Aug 29, 2013 · “The dark world of the welders glass inspired me to experiment with various kinds of glass to help see things better,” he says early in the video. In 1981, Steve Mann created the first version of the digital eye glass – EyeTap, which consisted of a computer in a backpack wired up to a camera and a rigged to a helmet. May 24, 2013 · Steve Mann is sometimes referred to as the . My main point of skepticism about Google Glass is not whether it can do what it claims to (it can) but whether we care. Smartphones have had voice Nov 02, 2012 · Steve Mann Mann’s Digital Eye Glass (completed in 1999) pictured here on July 13, 2009 My own engagement in this evolutionary process began way back in the last century in 1978. Thirty four years Decades before Google Glass, Steve Mann created his own augmented-reality goggles, becoming, likely, the world’s first cyborg. From “Eye Am a Camera,” his article from late last year in Time: “My own engagement in this evolutionary process began way back in the last century in 1978. Jun 26, 2012 · Google's approach My worry is that Google is taking 21st century smartphone thinking and choking out Steve Mann's skepticism and Thad Starner's practicality. Even with Richard DeVaul on Google's Steve Mann invented a precursor to Google Glass in the 1990s—which he now uses almost 24/7. But “the father of wearable computing” has an ominous warning about where technology is taking us next. Mar 14, 2013 · Almost 10 years ago I spent a day in Toronto with computer scientist Steve Mann to understand why he strapped a PC to his body and wore a camera and a monitor over one eye. He argued that it was
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There will be Apple Glass, and Google Glass, and RIM Glass. These companies are all working on glass. I think everyone is going to be making glass. I think we're also going to have a glass war instead of a smartphone war. Steve Mann Some of Mann's other inventions include HDR (High Dynamic Range) Imaging, now used in nearly every commercially manufactured camera, and the EyeTap Digital Eye Glass which predates the Google Glass by 30 years. Now as the Chief Scientist at Meta, a California-based startup, wearable AR glasses will be brought to a mass market.
Google's Glass wearable computer is set to go on sale to the public next year - but a growing number of complaints could see it banned in hundreds of public places by the time it launches.
Steve Mann V Google Glass - 'The Early Glass' Steve Mann can be seen as the godfather of augmented reality eye wear. He really got the ball rolling on the type of technology, and through his own Mar 04, 2013 · And that’s what’s happening with Google Glass. Steve Mann, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto, has spent the past 35 years developing