How about tactical coordination and mapping for teams (i.e. paintball / special operations)? I'm picturing the HUD 'map' from every FPS game, except it is based on the current view and relative locations of the team's devices.

How about a HUD that projects a map onto a firefighter's SCBA facepice?

That would be absolutely incredible... Firefighters die every year because they get disoriented and lost in zero-visibility conditions. Even if it didn't have a pre-generated map of the structure loaded... it could build a map as it went, and at least be able to provide a 'retrace my steps' view.

This just adds a depth camera to the phone and uses it and the visible light camera to map the space and orient the device. If a human is disoriented in a no-visibility situation due to smoke, the cameras will not likely be able to orient them either, except maybe something like a power outage, where visible light is unavailable but the depth camera can still function.

In the case that a new image couldn't be mapped, the phone could still use its gyros to determine orientation and provide a route out along the mapping that it had made during ingress. A first-person-shooter-style "this way to the next waypoint" arrow, or something like that, could provide directional cues in low/no visibility situations.

It could also be networked with other devices, such that all of the routes mapped could be composited and help in the identification of alternative routes should one become blocked.

Why does it need to be a visible light camera? Why not infrared?

Depth camera isn't visible light, but will likely also be blocked by smoke.

I wonder at what point ITAR kicks in for that sort of firefighter equipment. I know traditional night-vision is covered, and I can certainly see "smoke-vision" having straightforward military applications.

This is an issue with current firefighting technology. Thermal imaging cameras are quite common in the fire service. Most manufacturers limit the frame rate of the camera to 9fps or less, as this falls beneath the 'fast camera' spec for ITAR.

This will eventually (hopefully?) get integrated into Glass, and provide that kind of HUD some have been waiting for.

This already exists for the 3DS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_Camera:_The_Cursed_Memoi...

Imagine combining this with an Oculus Rift, so that you can make your house look however you want within the level, and you can move around through this new world. It would take virtual reality to an entirely new level

There was a short movie made on exactly this concept... I

SIGHT: http://vimeo.com/46304267

That movie is more of an AR HUD.

Instead consider you won't see the actual items in the room. Polygon shapes will replace "real-space" items (coffee table, sofa, bed, doors) but can be dungeon items (for D&D) or items in an evil corporate waiting room (a la Mission Impossible or Metal Gear).

Yes, mapping geometry/mesh to real world structures/skylines/halls/rooms of real locations, geolocation, orientation of device and local structural data. That is when augmented reality really takes over. We may even see a time when looking at something without some sort of augmented view is strange. Tango seems to be going right at that.

Personally I cannot wait to be chased by Cloverfield like monsters/creatures along the skyline and weaving in between buildings downtown. Movie ads are going to be amazing.

If those are just the ads, what are the movies? Holodecks?

Its future offspring could be the pinnacle of AR (Augmented Reality), add data as an overlay to the existing world, but in such a way that depth and perspective is preserved. In your case, seeing Stay Puft peek through my bedroom window would probably unleash a very real sensation.

Something like that on Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghostExter...

Good idea! :)