{"id":42909,"date":"2012-02-07T09:10:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T07:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=42909"},"modified":"2012-02-07T12:12:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T10:12:30","slug":"google-hud-glasses-spotted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/42909-google-hud-glasses-spotted.html","title":{"rendered":"Google HUD glasses spotted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google\u2019s<\/a> Heads Up Display (HUD) glasses are real, and a prototype of the device has been spotted according to <em>9to5Google<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Rumours were spreading in December that Google was working on a wearable HUD that could directly access Google\u2019s cloud-based location services and detail users\u2019 surroundings. The information would then be displayed on the glasses.<\/p>\n<p>The glasses will do the above and more according to 9to5Google. They will have a small front facing camera with flash to gather information about the surroundings as well as take photos. There will also be a built in navigation system, I\/O ports for voice input and output, and hardware specifications equal to previous generation <a title=\"Android\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> phones like the Samsung Galaxy S.<\/p>\n<p>Google isn\u2019t the only company working on wearable technology. <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a>, <a title=\"Recon Instruments\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/402279-Recon-Instruments\">Recon Instruments<\/a> and <a title=\"Motorola Mobility Holdings\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211039-Motorola\">Motorola<\/a> are all reportedly working on similar technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-57372312-93\/googles-hud-glasses-have-been-sighted\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prototype of Google\u2019s rumoured HUD glasses has been spotted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":26793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,605,167,8721,943,8723],"class_list":["post-42909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-google","tag-google-hud","tag-motorola","tag-recon-instruments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42923,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42909\/revisions\/42923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}