Vuzix Wrap 920AR augmented reality video eyewear: can you afford to look like this?
By Nilay Patel 
posted January 8th 2010 11:54AM
posted January 8th 2010 11:54AM
posted January 8th 2010 11:54AM
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If they come up with a 1080p version, im in
@mahills me too
This would be awesome for surgeons:
Display anatomical guides
Temp/anesthesia settings, etc
Imagine if you can pair this to voice-activated info displaying
@Cris
already exists.
@mahills Me too!!! its the only reason i dont have some already!!
@mahills
"Come with me of you want to see."
This is really, really ridiculous. I want one.
@TSIG
i hate comments like yours. I agree with the second bit. I don't with the first. Should i mark you up?
I think it is awesome if you have glasses like that.. a computer type backpack with a gun attached to it..
so you could play in any location in the world with your friends and bots. I mean the army could pick this up as a training gadget.
This could be awesome for tourism. Go to some historic ruin and get a computer rendering of how it used to look. A program on TV showcased this, but the person using it had to wear a ridiculous backpack and an even more ridiculous helmet. These glasses are stylish in comparison. Might even work for museums and art galleries: look at a painting and get information projected right over it. Totally worth $800 if this were supported.
@Soriak
Completely agree...... Next logical step for a ton of things...... If done right might replace the need for screens on cell phones and laptops....
@Soriak
I don't think this device relieves the user of the necessity for a "backpack" to house the computer that drives this. This is just the peripheral - it would be up to other manufacturers to develop more reasonable platforms to do all the processing and jank.
Finally!!! There are now only few steps to stuff we saw in Iron Man movie.
In for one....if they shoot lasers. :D
WANT..
but they totally stole this of me.. although my idea used an old webcam, and would use a pico-itx.. and loads of AA cells.. and.. you get the idea
Let me get this right, these glasses can put an overlay similar to Layar on the Android phone right in front of your eyes? Sure, they look kinda fugly, and they're way too expensive, but I can see a whole lot of opportunities to my own person heads up display wherever I go.
Automatic comparisons and prices when shopping, directions while riding a bike right over my vision, detailed information about people you meet or have met before, google goggles right over what I'm looking at. I can think of a lot of different ways something like this could be useful enough to overcome the fugly factor.
It's a personal HUD, just get a PC behind it (or a droid phone connected via bluetooth) and you can do quite a lot with something like this. I remind me of some of the tech the military uses.
The price though is a little steep for me. I'll wait until they shed $500 of weight.
@Serus it also shows your current HP and remaining MP
@SirNoDroin
lol..
This could revolutionize gaming too..We can actually live in an MMO! death penalty would be a little harsh though.."Bus hits you for..."
Ooh, they've finally productized Steve Mann :-) I wonder if this has the latency problems he did...
The real question is, can you afford to NOT look like this?
@Cyrillus
It won't be a problem if everyone are wearing it. They can change whatever your head look like.
Couldn't they have made the cameras flush with the lens?
All I'm thinking about are those cartoon characters that oogle when a hot girl walks by. AAAAAWOOOGA!
@(Unverified)
LOL!!!
Yes, they should hide somehow the optics. Now only if they could make 1080p version for under US$1k...
Now if they could only come in stylish...
One step closer to my grand idea. I want these glasses and software that recognizes brands (McD's, Verizon, etc), and essentially blur them out. Ad-free lifestyle.
Also, instant porn. That's more of a tv thing, though. Hit the IP button on your remote, and any show takes a turn for the naked.
I would have preferred they actually released the product they showed at CES 2009, the 920AV.
I wonder if they'll actually release this one. There seems to be a lot of vaporware in the AR/VR category of gadgets.
This XKCD cartoon is very topical... http://www.xkcd.com/678/
As ridiculous as this seems now, this is likely the future of mobile computing. Why have a device with a screen on it when you can have a HUD built into your glasses that will not only display device-specific data but also augment reality with information overlays?
There are admittedly some serious limitations still but the kind that are typically overcome (miniaturization, processing power, connectivity).
The only serious limitation is developing a decent input mechanism.
Those transparent OLEDs are looking good for augmented reality glasses. If only these glasses used them...
it's about time. i've been telling eyewear makers for years that we needed nipples on lenses. if only we could get nipples to come out of our eyeballs as well.
This would be a real lady killer on a first date.
"which features a built-in stereoscopic camera that allows reality and computer-generated imagery to blend in front of your eyes."
As someone who is probably a little too obsessed with AR... I have to say this is kind of an understatement of its possibilities. The camera allows not just reality and computer-generated imagery to "blend", but it allows the computer to interpret reality and produce images accordingly. Imagine blending this with the kind of spatial recognition software NASA or Honda or Sony are putting into their robots; finally, I can be Robocop.
FINALLY. We're one step closer to emmett Brown's hover-car display glasses from 2015!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2508/3696350041_fa6ac0015e.jpg
@Vaughanabe13
Go Hawks!
This would be awesome for surgeons!!!
I'd love to have a pair of these that could do many things... such as have a 360° view of my car because of the blind spots on my Crossfire.
@Smurf you sir.. are a Genius!
I want de-annoyed reality, make glasses that remove annoying people and some ugly architecture from my view but allow me to see the rest of the surroundings..
In answer to the question. In Japan? No problem! Anywhere else? Well, let's just say that this combined with a bluetooth headphone may get you beat up.
Cop "Can you say what the assailants looked like?"
Guy "Well, augmented they looked like a group of very attractive girls"
cop "Where can you order these again? I have a gun after all"
Could they make me....beautiful?
How bad would that be your wearing these out and about some one hicjaks the signal makes you think your going to get mugged then you go and shoot some bystander. Could explain the airport killing in modern warfare 2. Be like man all those women and children had guns pointed at me,
I think they should focus on glasses with higher resolutions (like 1280x720p per eye).. Their VR920 is already a couple of years old and they still haven't released a better version of it..
Why have those cameras smack in front of the Field of Vision? They should use the new transparent OLED screens, and mount a single camera for tracking purposes in the middle (I don't think you really need two for that use).
...and now introducing Google Sidewalkview