Next Google Glass could offer 'Terminator-like' vision.
Even as the first version of its Internet-connected Google
Glass didn’t quite take off with consumers and privacy advocates, Google's new patent filed at the US Patent and Trademark
Office hints at a new technology, possibly incorporated in the Google’s next
version of the smart glasses, that could give the wearer Terminator-like
vision.
The patent, formally titled
"Self-Describing Three-Dimensional (3D) Object Recognition and Control
Descriptors for Augmented Reality Interfaces", describes the technology
that would allow users to receive information about objects they see through
the smart glasses.
Put simply, if you are wearing the Google Glass with the
purported technology fitted inside, you will be able to receive information
about things lying in front of your line of vision. From the working of a fax
machine to a chair’s height or even the map of the room, the feature will show
all the information using augmented reality.
Although such a feature would
translate into the smart glasses providing information on possibly everything
that the wearer sees; the patent mentions that the data provided through the
feature could only work for objects within a pre-defined local environment,
which means you can only get information about locations or things about which
Google Glass knows already, IB Times reports.
However, akin to all patents, this
one too doesn’t necessarily mean the technology would see the light of the day.
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