Are they going to make their own glasses based off of Google's design? It would be tough to not be hypocritical at that point. If everyone can play along with each other, it may help them in the long run instead of burning bridges.
I do not think Google's latest will be a huge hot hit. I think if the public buys into this silly idea, there will be laws to prevent their use. For example, while driving a car. Some people will purchase them, I suppose.
In no possible way can Apple or Google claim to have invented Google Glasses; or in the case of Apple, iGoggles. Yup, they will call their glasses iGoggles. Just to confuse people that cannot proof read and they think Google invented them because they spell Google, Goggle.
Clearly, we are slowly becoming the Borg. If you lose your Google access, you will likely die because you will not longer be connected to the Google; I mean the Borg Collective.
When it comes to displays like Google's Glasses, the patent issue is very convoluted. I research 3D patents, past and present. I can tell you that there are hundreds of patents in place that cover devices like Google Glasses. To me, GG is certainly not new. The idea is old hat; been there, patented it and done that.
I saw similar devices at Evans and Sutherland many moons ago.
How Google Glamorizes Google Goggles is another thing. Their implementation might be as cool as they tell us it will be. LOL . . . what will drive the sales of Google Goggles is when Apple enters the market and does it right.
Then users will buy Google Goggles just for spite.
Apple is already in the game. They originally filed a patent in 2006 for a "Peripheral treatment for head-mounted display."[SIZE=+1][/SIZE] Their patent references other patents.
One of those references goes back to a patent for a device to view movies, issued in 1987 and that patent references a patent for viewing stereoscopic television; it was issued in 1945.
Google Glass By Apple? Patent Shows An Apple-Made Glasses Rival Could Be In The Works
Google's patent also references many old patents. Clearly, they did not invent the idea as so many Google Fanboys will claim
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OT: The actress Hedy Lamarr patented a method of controlling torpedo using radio waves. Miss Lamarr was a huge actress back in the day and Bob is still a big fan. She was not taken seriously by the old male farts of the day.
The control signals--transmit and recieve--were linked together in a way that made it impossible for the enemy to "hack" the signal and take control. Her system used punched paper tape.
Her invention helped give us some of our essential cell phone technology, CDMA.
