Brother Industries, Ltd. has just announced that next year it plans to produce Retinal Imaging Display (RID) glasses that augment regular vision.  Just as in the popular Terminator movies, these glasses could project supplemental information into your field of vision to augment your normal vision.  Although Brother and most of the blogosphere is hyping that the product will be ready by 2010, I am skeptical.  Even if they do appear in 2010, will the quality and form factor of the glasses be reasonable?  I doubt it.  Augmented reality sent directly into our retinas is certainly on the horizon, and its going to be awesome…but the technology still needs several more years of innovation before it is ready to break out.  In the meantime, we can wet our imaginations with what is to come.

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