In the year 2020, where the computer and phone is all hardwired in your eye to your brain.. below is a video showing off some of the stuff you’ll be able to do with this. It’s still in the beta testing phase . Anyways, Forget google glasses, this is far superior! Well actually, google’s project glass was part of my inspiration to make this.

This project idea came to my mind when I saw the “vision of the future” assignmenton DS106′s video assignments page:

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I thought about doing something that would show various applications including web 2.0 applications we’ve used during the class and have it all hardwired in the eye. Therefore you control everything hands-free and are able to access it anytime, anywhere. The whole idea is something I’ve actually been obsessed with and looking forward to becoming a reality in the near future – and we’re getting there with technology such as google glass. I believe with such technology, the world will be much more involved in the online world and individuals will be more easily able to create and update their own cyber infrastructure. Everyone will always be connected – kinda scary when you think about it, but cool.

I sticked with the video editor I’m most familiar with, Sony Vegas 7.0 to create this project. I have to say, for a project like this, it wasn’t the best video editor as it slowed down on me alot and crashed a few times. For the icon designs on the screen, I used photoshop and the logos I got from google images. The footage was filmed on my HD sony handycam, however during the video conversion process, the video quality went significantly down. For the actual screens such as iTunes, Chrome, and Netflix, I used a desktop recorder to get the footage and then I was simply able to overlay that footage over my video and apply some effects to it to make it seem more hologram-ish and blended in. Therefore, my video project consisted of a bunch of layers on top of the footage.

This was surely a really frustrating and time consuming final project, however, I really enjoyed the process – and I’m finally done! I actually had more in mind that I wanted to do, however because of the time constraint and a bunch of other work I had, I couldn’t. I wasn’t able to put enough detail efforts. I’m not so pleased with the overall quality of the video and lack of detail, however I know with more planning and time (and perhaps a more reliable video editor) I could have done much better. Some things I would change or add is make a better looking interface for the icons, something more interactive. I’d also include many more applications and some that interact with your environment (such as maps/gps, maybe a profile scanner where you can scan a person and get their facebook/twitter profile links – creepy, i know). I’d also have less footage of me walking or looking around and more cuts of applications showing, etc. Finally, I’d try to do a better job in holding the camera still! I might try a similar project on my free time someday.

Overall, I really enjoyed the project and glad that DS106 provided me with the opportunity to do something like this, cause otherwise I’d probably be too lazy to, even if I had the desire. It was a great experience from which I learned alot and will be able to apply if I decide to do a similar project in the future.

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Apple iTunes – http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Netflix – http://www.netflix.com
Youtube – http://www.youtube.com
Twitter – http://www.twitter.com
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