[simonebrunozzi]

Same usual mistake: Google Glass is NOT a proper HUD (Heads Up Display), or a proper form of Augmented Reality. It doesn't project anything on the main vision area, but only on the little screen on the upper right side.

[Crito]

I've used one briefly so I am aware that it is not a HUD, but it could still provide a limited form of augmented reality useful for police. Always displaying the current address, a running list of local reports, etc. With some computer vision backend, it could constantly detect and scan license plates, and display alerts to the wearer when it found stolen vehicles.

There is a lot of stuff you could do with this sort of technology. If proper HUD glasses ever become more practical, you could of course do a lot more (and you would already have officers comfortable with the general concept).

[shliachtx]

...which is its advantage. I doesn't take up your full viewing space, but puts the information right in front of you.

[gress]

That's no advantage at all. A real AR HUD wouldn't need to 'take up your full viewing space' but could place information where it was relevant.

[shliachtx]

What I meant by that was that it doesn't put itself into your line of sight, but when you do want it, it is (very) easily accessible.

[gress]

That's true, but it's not an advantage that it's not a true HUD, since a true HUD could place the information out of your line of sight or within it as appropriate, whereas Glass cannot.

[jfoster]

That's the usual mistake of wearable computing?