Watch the resolution still be 640x480 like all the other shitty video glasses!

dirk1965

That's pretty cool, if a bit geeky-looking still. I can't wait for useful augmented reality. Imagine: looking at a hotel, and seeing prices and a link to buy a room, looking at a sign in a foreign language and seeing a translation pop up... the possibilities are endless! Just a couple more advances in machine vision and semantic web stuff.. ooh, the future is cool. Now when can I get these as contact lenses?

kzooguy

At some point, 8-10 years ago, IBM had this commercial where an irritating schmuck had a tiny little flat display on a bracket about an inch in front of the right lens of his eyeglasses. He was daytrading, and yelling and kicking up a general ruckus among the pigeons in what looked like Red Square or something. I wanted one of those.

I liked the idea of the Glasstron, too, but decided it probably wasn't that good, or else they'd be selling lots of them.

pyleg

But does it play Doom?

cybereality

I also wonder about the eye strain factor. I've never had a chance to check out a pair of VR goggles/glasses, but it seems to me that you'd have a really hard time focusing on something that close to your eyes. (At least, without the help of some lenses, that is.)

@hnkelley: I'm guessing that if you can plug them in like a regular display, you'd be able to do all this and more.

FredicvsMaximvs

"make the lenses transmissive enough to be used in dark places"

This is so a lucky diplomat wackin' off to porn can check to see if anyone is looking. :P

radikaled

@--Tito--:
Ha Ha, you said "menally"

macrumpton

Oakleys are better.

akmarksman

As soon as Sony perfects their cross cerebral hemisphere hack exploit that allows them to install a brainstem root-kit, they'll start selling the glasses retail at a price less than the cost of manufacture. The first corporation that can control the consumer, will rule the world. Before you buy, be sure to carefully read the section in the EULA about mandatory software updating, and implied user consent.

HughJennicks

@--Tito--: Whew, at least he doesn't look menTally retarded...

iCanhasLs2plz

If these are ever perfected there goes flat screen hd tvs and monitors too for that matter. Good riddance too.

Gary_7vn

@Sora57: Ah, yes, sweet memories of our naïve past. Like you, I also ordered a set of X-Ray Specs in the early 70s only to find they were a fraud. Of course, unlike you, I was in college at the time...

bosskev

@bosskev: When we were kids my brother and I ordered those glasses back in the 60's or early 70's. I will never forget the day I put them on and suddenly realized what "truth in advertising" meant. Lying bastards! How easily a horny kids dreams are crushed...

Sora57

if sony can make this thing ipod-y then it would sell like hot cakes, and then when ppl start walking into highways concentrated on their pr0n, it will be banned like .... well.... cold cakes? cant really think of anything now

Crescent

@Knight-Zero: Yeah, as demonstrated by the PS3 *inward chuckle*

jackfrost132

I'm sure the glasses will be slimmed down refined, Sony knows how to make sleek shiny products.

Knight-Zero

@hnkelley: 2 girls, 1 cup. Does it everytime.

jdhuck

@Mio: I guess that would depend on the porn you're viewing.

hnkelley

@GadgetPlay: 790: Sex-crazed robot head (that just sounds wrong)

Windhawk

I've been looking video glasses for years, I-Glasses and Sony Glasstron always intrigued me, but never enough to buy a set. The value just isn't there, nor it is worth the eyestrain.

Jesustron

Does it make you nauseated after about 30 seconds of use, though?

Mio

Nice advance on the video glasses. I think it needs to be paired with a full spectrum camera so you can switch between IR/heat, UV, regular modes, or even set it up as a directional RF sensor for visually mapping out the WiFi coverage for a large installation.

And for porn, of course. (Just be sure to wear something... um... tight... so no one notices your reaction.)

hnkelley

yay for beaming lasers directly into our eyes! oh no, overload, now I need geordi la forge glasses to restore my sight. :(

jackfrost132

I don't want glasses like la forge because if I'm not mistaken he had some kind of fucked up lsd vision.

McClain

When they can do it with contact lenses I'll be impressed, this stuff has been out for a couple years now.

storgan

I swear Chris Cornell just sang "I shot my load today, would you cry for me", or is that just my mind.

I always thought if these would be cool if you could attach a camera to video glasses and zoom in on points of interest and take shots.

ichi1

@Windhawk: "or maybe a pair of animated eyes."

Like our favorite robot head, "790."

GadgetPlay

does it give mouth hugs?

trunk666

Make the LCD display two-sided so while you watch one program while those looking at you see something else, another program, or maybe a pair of animated eyes.

Windhawk

@bl1nk2much: Someone has already beaten Sony to the punch.

bosskev

I also would like to use this for pornography.

strider_mt2k

request to sony....instead of making this...make tru x-ray glasses please...

bl1nk2much

I'm sure by the time you're reading this you've already thought about using this thing for porn

Its only natural

Hamood

Their marketing jingle:
At home, at work or on the go,
enjoy your porn, nobody will know.

(-12)

bosskev

He is having an "OMG" reaction. His mind is being blown. God forbid I would look stupid after being "studpified" by something really revolutionary.

loslosbaby

The guy using them in the 1st pic looks retarded(like menally).

No offense to anyone. He really does look like that.

--Tito--