[coreycollins]

There has been a lot of talk that these glasses will connect via 3g/4g and have different sensors to improve the augmented reality experience. Why not just have a display, power source, and bluetooth module? Then use your phone for the difficult computing.

[nl]

Because the primary reason your phone is as big as it is, is because of the screen.

A big, bright screen forced a big battery.

I don't know what the battery usage on a HUD screen is, but I suspect a lot less - they don't require backlighting for a start.

That cuts down on the battery requirements, which cuts down on the size & weight (Obviously this is speculation: it wouldn't be a huge surprise if you had to carry a battery pack wired to the glasses somehow)

Secondly, the glasses themselves need to do a lot of fast, low-latency image processing. It isn't at all clear that bluetoothis an appropriate low-latency, high bandwidth connection mechanism for this.

Having said that, I suspect you'll be able to connect to your phone via bluetooth if you want - but the primary processing will be done on the glasses.