How Google Glasses Could Create 'Augmented Reality' by Year's End

is this better than the gorilla glass?

From a technical standpoint, a pair of commercially available, augmented reality glasses by Google are very possible by the end of the year. The display might look pretty good, too. So says Blair MacIntyre, a computer scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology who founded the school's Augmented Environments Lab in 1999.

Since December, the New York Times' Bits blog and the blog 9to5Google have gathered reports from unnamed sources that Google is working on a pair of glasses that would present wearers with information about real objects they see in the world around them. Google's partnership with Zagat, for example, might allow the glasses to show reviews for restaurants where wearers direct their gaze. Perhaps combined with Google Maps, the device could search for nearby landmarks and show walking directions. The glasses will have voice input and output. They will also send data directly to the Internet, which is possible via Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G technology. The news finally hit it big when Bits reported that the glasses would be available by the year's end, retailing for $250 to $600.

How Google Glasses Could Create 'Augmented Reality' by Year's End