[nogridbag]

I'm curious if the position of the "Vaunt display" will feel similar to Google Glass.

From the article:

>> It projects a rectangle of red text and icons down in the lower right of your visual field. But when I wasn’t glancing down in that direction, the display wasn’t there. My first thought was that the frames were misaligned.

The HUD in Google Glass was also outside of your normal field of view and for certain things this was a poor experience. For example, using Google maps integration I felt like I was taking my eyes off the road and felt safer simply using my smartphone mounted to my windshield.

[kageneko]

Yeah. I was working on some search-and-rescue stuff using Google Glass. My eventual prototype had a "coarse" mode and a "fine" mode.

In fine mode, it would give you a fairly detailed readout of the bearing and distance to your target (marked with GPS). It required doing that thing where you're looking up-and-to-the-right in order to see what was going on.

In coarse mode, the entire Glass display was changed to a single color. I found that it showed up well even in someone's peripheral vision and the colors were distinct enough that you could navigate pretty well without having to watch the display.

I tried using symbols (giant triangles to indicate direction and such) but none of them worked as well as the color blocks.