Techno-glasses really seem to be the technology of the moment – with debate raging about the relative merits of Apple’s iGlass vs. Google Glass (with Apple beating Google by having two heads up screens), Olympus are now weighing in with their contribution to the augmented reality market. And the market doesn’t even exist yet.
The Olympus MEG4.0 has been seven years in the making and offers Bluetooth connectivity, will interact with your smartphone or tablet and actually increases the clarity of what you see – basically real life photoshop!
Unlike Google Glass, the Olympus MEG4.0 won’t have a camera but it will have an integrated accelerometer for using head-control features and assessing which way the user is facing, and while Google seems focused on the potential for photography and video capture with Glass, Olympus seem to be pushing more in the direction of discrete content consumption as more relevant to their target audience. But then they have to, as they reckon the product will have a battery life of eight hours – and that’s based on using its capabilities only every three minutes, for just fifteen seconds at a time. With continuous usage, this product goes for around two hours. Google Glass prototypes are currently lasting six, but Google are looking to push this on to a full day.
Apple’s iGlass is taking a different approach, and the company has already patented a “head-mounted display apparatus for a user” – but the display would be on the side of the glasses rather than in front of your vision, as Google Glass would be. Apple are currently boasting dual projectors that will give a more “immersive” experience that avoids motion sickness because of its stereoscopic projection, and can fill the user’s field of vision while increasing the quality of the image.
Now if this all sounds like too much techno-babble to you, let’s get excited again by watching this video of a skydiver wearing Google Glass:
Google Glass certainly seems to the most documented augmented reality product out there – for more articles and to follow the story, check out Mashable’s topic on it. Here’s to the future!
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