The Glass Class, Lecture 2. History of Wearable computing. Taught by Mark Billinghurst on February 17th 2014. The second lecture of the Glass Class on Google Glass programming. This lecture provides an overview of the history of wearable computing and Google

1. The Glass Class
Lecture 2 - Wearable Computers
Feb 17th – 21st 2014
Mark Billinghurst, Gun Lee
HIT Lab NZ
University of Canterbury

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A Brief History of Time
 Trend
 smaller, cheaper, more functions, more intimate
 From public space onto the body
17th Century
20th Century
13th Century

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A Brief History of Computing
 Trend
 smaller, cheaper, faster, more intimate
 Moving from fixed to handheld
1950’s
1980’s
1990’s

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Wearable Computing
 Computer on the body that is:
 Always on
 Always accessible
 Always connected
 Other attributes
 Augmenting user actions
 Aware of user and surroundings

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Wearable Attributes
 fafds

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Thorp and Shannon (1961)
 Wearable timing device for roulette prediction
 Audio feedback, four button input
Ed Thorp

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Keith Taft (1972)
 Wearable computer for blackjack card counting
 Toe input, LED in Glasses for feedback
Belt computer
Shoe Input
Glasses Display

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Steve Mann (1980s - )

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CamNet (1992)
 British Telecom
 Wearable Teleconferencing
 audio, video
 Sends task space video
 Collaboration between user
and remote expert
 Similar CMU study (1996)
 cut performance time in half

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MIT Wearable Computing (1996)

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Thad Starner 1998

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Early Wearable Computing

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Early Technology
 Computing
 Belt or Backpack
 Displays
 Head Mounted, LCD Panel, Audio
 Input Devices
 Chording Keyboard, Speech, Camera
 Networking
 Wireless LAN, Infra-Red, Cellular

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Mobile AR: Touring Machine (1997)
 University of Columbia
 Feiner, MacIntyre, Höllerer, Webster
 Combines
 See through head mounted display
 GPS tracking
 Orientation sensor
 Backpack PC (custom)
 Tablet input

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MARS View
 Virtual tags overlaid on the real world
 “Information in place”

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Early Backpack/Wearable Systems
 Touring Machine
 AR Quake (Thomas)
 Tinmith (Piekarski)
 MCAR (Reitmayr)
 Bulky, HMD based

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HIT Lab NZ Wearable AR (2004)
 Highly accurate outdoor AR
tracking system
 GPS, Inertial, RTK system
 HMD
 First prototype
 Laptop based
 Video see-through HMD
 2-3 cm tracking accuracy

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Image Registration
AR Stakeout Application

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Wearable AR Video

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PCI 3D Graphics Board
Hard Drive
Serial
Ports
CPU
PC104 Sound Card
PC104 PCMCIA
GPS
Antenna
RTK correction Antenna
HMD
Controller
Tracker
Controller
DC to DC
Converter
Battery
Wearable
Computer
GPS RTK
correction
Radio
Example self-built working
solution with PCI-based 3D graphics
Columbia Touring Machine
Mobile AR - Hardware

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Early Commercial Systems
 Xybernaut (1996-2007)
 Belt worn, HMD, 233 MHz
 ViA
 Belt worn, Audio Interface
 700 MHz Crusoe

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2008 - Location Aware Phones
Nokia NavigatorMotorola Droid

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Real World Information Overlay
 Tag real world locations
 GPS + Compass input
 Overlay graphics data on live video
 Applications
 Travel guide, Advertising, etc
 Companies
 Layar, AcrossAir, Tochnidot, Wikitude, etc

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Layar – www.layar.com

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Evolution of Mobile AR
Wearable AR
Handheld
AR Displays
Camera phone
1995 1997 2001 2003 2004
Camera phone
- Self contained AR
Wearable
Computers
PDAs
-Thin client AR
PDAs
-Self contained AR
Camera phone
- Thin client AR

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Google Glass

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View Through Google Glass
Always available peripheral information display
Combining computing, communications and content capture

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What's Inside Google Glass?

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 Hardware
 CPU TI OMAP 4430 – 1 Ghz
 16 GB SanDisk Flash,1 GB Ram
 570mAh Battery
 Input
 5 mp camera, 720p recording, microphone
 GPS, InvenSense MPU-9150 inertial sensor
 Output
 Bone conducting speaker
 640x360 micro-projector display

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Google Glass Prototyping

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Early prototyping

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Early prototyping

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Early prototyping

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Early prototyping

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Early prototyping

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Early prototyping

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Early prototyping

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Early prototyping

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Competitors
 Vuzix M100
 $999, profession
 Recon Jet
 $600, more sensors, sports
 Opinvent
 500 Euro, multi-view mode
 Motorola Golden-i
 Rugged, remote assistance

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Recon Instruments Snow
 Ski display/computer
 Location, speed, altitude, phone headset

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Projected Market
 > 10 million displays by 2016

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Wearables Market Size