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Google's Augmented Reality Glasses Could Be On Your Face This Year

Explore the future of augmented reality glasses, including news on Google Goggles and wearable technology like smartphone you can wear.

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Like this...only on your face.

Wearing glasses that superimpose a layer of information---nearby pizza places, the local bus line, or, if you're the Terminator, the amount of ammo left in your weapon---over reality is a long-held techie fantasy. Fighter pilots already use such "heads-up" displays

to keep track of vital info while keeping their eyes ahead of them, but despite the constant low buzz

about such augmented reality glasses

for the rest of us, actual products have been few and far between. Now, though, Google employees speaking to the NYT's Bits blog

have confirmed that Google's experimental lab is indeed building such a device. Due to come out at the end of the year, these "Google Goggles" are said to function basically as a smartphone you can wear on your face. According the the Bits blog, users will be able to scroll around on the glasses' tiny screen using small ...

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