August 23, 2012 
This is the future of translation…
Google’s Project Glass, which was presented in April of this year in the form of a video, received a lot of attention on the Internet. Google’s glasses inspired one programmer to make glasses with the function of translating foreign languages simultaneously.
Google Glasses have some really impressive features: lens on the glasses can display weather, give voice instructions to find selected location and automatically display information about everything you’re watching, and all that on a small monitor in front of your eyes.
The video, Google says, does not necessarily contain all the features that Google Glasses are capable of, but they are intended as an incentive to talk. One post that members of the team Project Glass have posted on the profile Google+ invites readers to propose their own functions which they would like to have in the version of glasses when they are fully ready to go to market.
Many have commented or sent an e-mail to Google in response to this post, but one guy went much further and has made his own specs for the augmented reality and, instead of commenting or sending an e-mail, made a few videos on YouTube to show Google and the rest of the world all that can be done.
British developer by the name of Will Powell made his own pair of glasses for the augmented reality with the operating system much like the one in Google’s glasses. Although they were much simpler than Google glasses, those that Powell made still had some impressive features such as voice recognition, built-in camera and MP3 player.
Powell has now added new functionality to his glasses; translating foreign languages in real time.
In the video posted on YouTube Powell showed that he and his interlocutor were able to communicate using different languages, thanks to the application of automatic translation on Powell’s glasses.
In the video, Powell speaks English, and his sister Spanish. English translation of what the sister says appears simultaneously, i.e. in real time on the screen of Powell’s glasses, thanks to Microsoft’s translation service.
The result can be seen on the video below. Translation appears on the television screen in the background and on the screen in Powell’s glasses:
Taken from: www.net.hr