Move Over Google: Oakley's Got Smart Glasses, Too

17.04.2012

Will these glasses give a wearer an unfair advantage? So much is made these days of athletes getting that from "performance-enhancing drugs." A wearer of Oakley enhances sunglasses could have a clear advantage over the non-wearer.

Need to know when to hit that baseball? No fear, your Oakley shades will tell you. A home run every time!

Then there's my biggest pet peeve with augmented reality, and that's the distraction of it all. We have enough items attempting to draw our attention away from the real world without things whizzing around in our field of vision. How is wearing these type of lenses ?

I am sure there are some great uses for augmented reality--perhaps easier way to communicate for a handicapped person, for example-- but, so far, the truly killer applications for AR are nowhere to be found. It's a cool idea, but perhaps it's one that needs a little more time to mature.

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