Investigate: Glasses

For me the most interesting part of modern society is the progression, and increasingly growing significance of digital media. Images, Music, Videos, Messages, Movies, Games, e-Books and Comics have all rose to become integral in the modern lifestyle and modern technology is constantly adapting to compensate for this by integrating it as the demand grows. Mobile phone companies manufactured cameras into their models at the beginning of the last decade, mp3 players soon followed. Nowadays phones can do nearly everything including access the internet, so can TVs. Computers are used as central hubs for nearly every peripheral device you can own and video game consoles can stream movies, TV shows and music from the internet thanks to services like Netflix and Music Unlimited. I believe that digital media is the future of our modern society, and that one of the best ways to continue to push it forward is to make it more accessible for people, and more significant to their everyday interactions.

My inspiration for this assignment comes from Googles’ ‘Project Glass’ a set of augmented reality glasses that will run on Googles’ Android operating system. The idea that someone could use a pair of glasses to interact with the world is one that I find extremely exciting, and its applications in the consumption of media are more varied than any other device currently on the market. The idea of imposing information on someones vision means that it is no longer necessary for screens to exist, meaning that the person doesn’t even really need to be holding the device that they are trying to use. Imagine sitting in your lounge and receiving a txt from your phone in the kitchen, or listening to music streaming from your laptop in your bedroom, imagine skyping someone while cooking dinner or watching a TV show while on the toilet. All of a sudden media would become omnipresent in out day-to-day lives, with us at all times and accessible in the easiest of ways.