What’s the Big Deal with Glass?
The first future-facing movie that I can recall containing consumer HUD (heads-up display) goggles was Back to the Future 2. This HUD was worn in the future year 2015 (I know, right?), not by a military commander or an airship pilot, but by young Marty McFly, Jr., as he sat with his family around the kitchen table. This was a consumer device capable of, at least, displaying text and accepting phone calls. Google Glass has beaten that mark by a year.
Although Glass is sometimes wrongly considered to be an augmented-reality device, it’s better thought of as an ever-present optical interface for a mobile device. It’s a self-contained computer, yes, but it is also reliant on an external paired smartphone for some actions, ...
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