Epson and Meta Augmented Reality Glasses Take on Google Glass
Jan 29, 2013 10:35 AM EDT by 
Yup. That’s our “O” face. We are super excited about augmented reality glasses, and feel they can’t be in our hands soon enough. Meta, a startup composed primarily of Columbia University, students agrees. In partnership with Epson, the company is releasing a developer’s kit, composed of stereoscopic glasses that offer a super low latency gesture tracking technology which turns your surroundings into your PC and your hands into controllers.
“We know natural computation is the future, and our goal is to bring a beautiful, flawless, and intuitive user experience to the world,” Meta said in a press release. Not nearly enough details are known about these awkward looking glasses, in terms of specs, price, release timing for the public. What we do know is that Meta was founded by developer Meron Gribetz and professor Steven Feiner with developers in mind. The idea is to give users gesture control of 3D virtual objects set inside their physical surroundings. The hardware is comprised of a pair of glasses with a mini-projector-like device attached to the top of the frames.
According to CEO Gribetz, “It’s the way computers always should have been: wearable, viewed through both eyes, and directly controlled using their entire arms and hands.” We can hardly wait to get our hands on these things to find out if he’s right.
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January 29th, 2013 at 1:25 pm
The Epson glasses look so 1990′s!
Have you guys looked at the Vuzix M100 AR Snacker they showed working at CES and the Smart Glasses they are bringing out later in the year?
January 30th, 2013 at 1:16 am
Great to see more and more companies have started developing Augmented Reality apps. There are few companies in India like AdStuck and FitYour are also doing a pretty good job.
But, I still feel that, we will have to wait for at least 2-3 more years to see such glasses being used by a common man.