Google Glasses-Inspired Eyewear Translates Foreign Language Into Real-Life Subtitles

Here's an innovative, simple, and exciting application to Google Glasses: foreign language augmented reality that translates text like real-life subtitles. Technology MacGyver Will Powell assembled a working concept of the product from a list of consumer electronics, and demonstrated it in a video of himself in conversation with his sister. Check out the video below. We've also pasted his description of the convoluted process the product takes to translate, below the video.
"The individual using the glasses be wears the Vuzix 1200 Star glasses which are connected to the s-video connector on the first raspberry pi and the Jawbone bluetooth microphone that connects to a device such as smartphone or tablet to provide a clean noise cancelled audio feed. The bluetooth microphone streams across the network of what I say and what it picks up around me. This is then recognised and passed through Microsoft's translation API with a caching layer to improve performance of regularly used statements. Passing through this API service is the biggest delay in the subtitles. Once translated the server passes back the text and translations that are picked up by the raspberry pi driving the TV and glasses displays. Elizabeth uses a headset mic but could user her own raspberry pi, glasses and jawbone microphone to have the same experience as I do."
Google knows that it'll take some education before we're all wearing Google Glass headsets, and so the company has kicked off what it's called Glass Sessions: slices of real life augmented with Glass. First up is persistent video and camera functionality from the perspective of a parent, with Glass being used to capture fleeting moments and share milestones across continents. Check out the video after the cut.Laetitia Gayno, the mom in the video, is the wife of a Google employee, and shows how she uses Glass to snap photos of her baby without the camera getting in the way. Meanwhile, she can use Google+ Hangouts for group video calls with her family back in France.
Google's focus with Glass has, in public demonstrations at least, been concentrated on the photography elements of the wearable. That's arguably the easiest thing to show off; without seeing what it's actually like to have a small virtual display "hovering" just above your normal line of vision, justifying the value of Glass' other mediated reality abilities is considerably trickier.Last week, Google began taking preorders for Google Glass Explorer Edition, the first generation of developer devices, which are expected to begin shipping in early 2013. Priced at $1,500 – though with the expectation that the consumer product will be considerably cheaper – they'll give developers the opportunity to experiment with bringing their apps to persistently-connected users.