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Re:California woman ticketed for wearing Google Glass while ... by gamblor956 on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @01:35PM (#6641796)
That may be true of the unreleased Gen2 Google Glasses, which project the image directly in your field of vision, but it is most certainly not true of the Google Glass Explorers currently available, which require the user to look up at the display. In its current incarnation, Google Glass is just as distracting as looking at the radio or instruments, and should not be regarded as a HUD.
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Re:California woman ticketed for wearing Google Glass while ... by danellis on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @07:33PM (#6644279)
> the unreleased Gen2 Google Glasses, which project the image directly in your field of vision

Where did you get that idea from? The pictures of the gen 2 Google Glass look almost identical to the gen 1, with the prism and all.

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Re:California woman ticketed for wearing Google Glass while ... by vacri on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @05:42PM (#6643618)
Google glass is a HUD. When it is on, it also projects directly into your eye. My honours thesis was comaparing the angle between the eyes when viewing items in a 'virtual screen' (eyepiece HUD) and a real screen (half-dome field at 3m). Glass uses the same technology as the military HUD - throwing collimated light into your eye and using your retina as the screen. Not to mention that the glass is still in your field of vision when looking elsewhere, you're just not directly focusing on it. Your field of vision is 'everything you see', not 'what you're focusing on'.

Similarly, in its current incarnation, I can watch video on Glass. My radio and instruments can't do the same.

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Re:California woman ticketed for wearing Google Glass while ... by myko on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @02:36PM (#6642248)
> which project the image directly in your field of vision

Really? Link?

This seems like a bad idea.

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Re:California woman ticketed for wearing Google Glass while ... by foley on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @03:27PM (#6642661)
It is possible to project directly into the retina: http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/09/avegant-retinal-hmd/

Definitely dangerous but I see a lot of potential in the technology with the possibility of true retina quality resolution.

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