Seth Weintraub of 9to5Google reports that Google is working on smart eyeglasses with a built-in heads up display that knows where you are and shows relevant Google info:
The heads up display (HUD) is only for one eye and on the side. It is not transparent nor does it have dual 3D configurations, as previously speculated.
One really cool bit: The navigation system currently used is a head tilting-to scroll and click. We are told it is very quick to learn and once the user is adept at navigation, it becomes second nature and almost indistinguishable to outside users.
Google isn’t the only company working on this idea–for instance when I visited NTT Docomo in Tokyo last fall, I tried out a similar prototype which that company had designed in collaboration with Olympus. But I wonder who’ll be the first to ship something that actually works and is useful?
Last week, our Los Angeles correspondent Jared Newman dropped in on the first Immersive Tech Summit, a conference about virtual reality, augmented reality, and other attempts to make the virtual world a little more realistic–or, sometimes, the real world a little more virtual. He took pictures as he explored the show, and has put together a gallery of some of the exhibits he visited. (My favorite, even though I don’t quite understand it, is the fellow at right, who goes by the name Punch Bob.)
Not everyone’s satisfied with TVs, projectors, and computer monitors as the be-all end-all of multimedia. Last week, these people converged in Los Angeles for the first annual 
Augmented reality–the process of 