{"136391":{"#nid":"136391","#data":{"type":"news","title":"You Will Want Google Goggles","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EAt first glance, \u003Cstrong\u003EThad Starner\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;does not look out of place at Google. A pioneering researcher in the field of wearable computing, Starner is a big, charming man with unruly hair. But everyone who meets him does a double take, because mounted over the left lens of his eyeglasses is a small rectangle. It looks like a car\u0027s side-view mirror made for a human face. The device is actually a minuscule computer monitor aimed at Starner\u0027s eye; he sees its display\u2014pictures, e-mails, anything\u2014superimposed on top of the world, Terminator-style. Starner\u0027s heads-up display is his own system, not a prototype of Project Glass, Google\u0027s recently announced effort to build augmented-reality goggles. In April, Google X, the company\u0027s special-projects lab, posted a video in which an imaginary user meanders around New York City while maps, text messages, and calendar reminders pop up in front of his eye\u2014a digital wonderland overlaid on the analog world. Google says the project is still in its early phases; Google employees have been testing the technology in public, but the company has declined to show prototypes to most journalists, including myself... \u0022One of the key points here,\u0022 Starner says, \u0022is that we\u0027re trying to make mobile systems that help the user pay more attention to the real world as opposed to retreating from it.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27659","created_gmt":"2012-06-19 11:45:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:26","author":"Christopher Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/review\/428212\/you-will-want-google-goggles\/","title":"Source: Technology Review"}],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}