{"id":9687,"date":"2015-02-08T22:48:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T06:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=9687"},"modified":"2015-02-27T15:27:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T23:27:40","slug":"head-mounted-displays-and-augmented-reality-headgear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/head-mounted-displays-and-augmented-reality-headgear\/","title":{"rendered":"Head Mounted Displays and Augmented Reality Headgear"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The idea of immersing ourselves deeper into an augmented and or virtual reality has captivated many of us thanks to sci-fi books like Snow Crash<\/a> and Rainbows End<\/a>. It has also created an explosion in growth the past few years of Head Mounted Displays (HMD) and augmented reality glasses projects. AR glasses and HMDs have been around for some time but people really started to get excited about augmented reality headwear when Google announced Glass back in 2012. So let’s start the review here.<\/p>\n

Google Glass<\/span><\/b>:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Before the recent announcement of it being discontinued<\/a>\u00a0but now “graduating” from the Google X experimental projects incubator to become its own independent division (that will report to Nest’s Tony Fadell), Google Glass was a $1,500 type of wearable technology with an optical head-mounted display (OHMD). It was developed by Google with the mission of producing a mass-market ubiquitous computer. Tailored mainly to work with Google products, Google Glass displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free format.<\/p>\n

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The Promise:<\/p>\n