Google files patent to use holograms on Google Glass
05 Oct 2015
Google plans to use holograms on its eye-wearable device Google Glass according to its patent application. The hologram would improve the augmented reality experiences that allow computer-generated imagery (CGI) to interact with the real world.
The key to making "smart" eyewear, was allowing projected content to interact and react to the real-world.
The patent application titled "Lightguide With Multiple In-Coupling Holograms For Head Wearable Display" details what Google could do with this augmented reality via holograms, TechCrunch reported.
"With augmented reality, the viewer's image of the world is augmented with an overlaying CGI, also referred to as a heads-up display" according to the patent application.
The report said a US-based start-up Magic Leap could be roped in to make the holograms projected in Google Glass.
Magic Leap had already filed a number of trademarks for upcoming augmented reality content.
Even though it had failed to gain traction in its first run, Google is reported to be willing to let its Glass project slide. The company is said to be pursing the project under a new name.
The project now named Project Aura, is still being headed by Ivy Ross, who earlier ran the Glass project, according to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal.