Google: Project Glass, self-driving cars, pieces of software with charming voices that serve as personal attendants.
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Today, we may be talking about how sensors will let Google: Project Glass know whether or not you are skydiving or strolling on a beach.
Google's Project Glass has garnered lots of attention among Earthlings and Saiyans on the augmented reality front.
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Given his position and our topic of conversation -- Google's Project Glass -- he was conspicuous for wearing no eyewear whatsoever.
The Android mobile operating system is already expanding beyond smartphones and tablets to smart TVs, cameras and Google's Project Glass smart glasses.
First up is the Google Glass Project.
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But in truth it is still unclear how big the appetite for head-worn computers will be, and Google's Project Glass - which benefits from the company's strong tech brand - is expected to play a critical role in determining whether the sector succeeds or fails.
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Baidu, China's largest search engine, is working on its own smart glasses technology - similar to Google's Glass project.
Apple in fact needs to being painting a picture of itself as the post-device company, as Google might well do with Project Glass.
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It looks like Google has considered transferring ideas from Project Glass over to your wrist by patenting a smart watch with a transparent, flip-up touchscreen.
Crazily, that the potential revenue stream is unknown actually makes Project Glass more appealing to Google Ventures.
Google has said one goal of its Glass project is to make technology available when users need it but unobtrusive when they don't.
Now Google is poised to do the same with its breathtaking Project Glass initiative.
The organization isn't directly investing in Project Glass itself, of course, with Google already having seen that its X division has what it needs in that regard.
If even extremely jaded Manhattanites are excited enough about it to stop a stranger on the street, Project Glass clearly has the potential to be Google Ventures' next success story.
Unlike a phone, however, Google is attempting to produce a hands-free experience with Project Glass.
On a day when Google caused waves by announcing that anyone could apply for its new Project Glass spectacles, Sergey Brin took care of something of a little more personal.
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It does show a translation function similar -- but not totally identical -- to what's been shown off in a recent Project Glass promo video, in which a guy translated his own words using Google's specs.
Google just hit our inbox with an email inviting folks who pre-ordered the Explorer Edition of Project Glass to two-day hackathons in San Francisco and New York, where they'll be the first group of developers -- not being paid by Page and Co.
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Between the sci-fi future of Project Glass and this intriguing new Pixel, I find myself getting more and more excited about Google hardware.
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