| AI pioneer, Sebastian Thrun recently appeared on The Charlie Rose Show to talk about Google's "glasses", self-driving car, and his startup Udacity; and as a special surprise, he became the first Google employee to appear in a video wearing a prototype of Google's goggles. |
Thrun is currently a research professor at Stanford, a Google Fellow and Vice President, and a co-founder of Udacity.
At Google, he is the founder and head of Google X, which is home to projects like the Google self-driving car and the recently announced Google Glass.
"I am trying to radically innovate, innovate, innovate. And I am learning from Google's amazing founders, Sergey and Larry." states Thrun.
At Udacity, Thrun is attempting to democratize higher education. Udacity offers an array of college-level classes in computer science to hundreds of thousands of students.
Google X is lab that works on Project Glass, and Thrun recently appeared on The Charlie Rose Show to talk about Google's "glasses", self-driving car, and his startup Udacity; and as a special surprise, he became the first Google employee to appear in a video wearing a prototype of Google's Heads-Up Display (HUD) specs, sporting the glasses set for the entirety of the almost 20-minute interview.
You can watch Thrun's interview below.
Thrun discusses what the glasses can do right now -- including send emails, connect to Google+, and share a live-stream of what you're looking at -- and he even takes a photograph of Rose as he talks. Here's that photo, which Thrun confirms on his Google+ page that he took during the interview and apparently shared to Google+.
Thrun also confirmed that the team is experimenting with making phone calls through the headset and notifying the wearer of upcoming events in his or her calendar, though the focus of Google's Project Glass, at present, seems to be on social sharing, such as taking photos and videos from your direct eye-line and disseminating that material online, presumably through Google's social network, Google+.
Finally, Thrun seemed somewhat down on the augmented reality aspect of Google's Glasses, or the ability of an HUD device to give you information about what you are looking at in real time. That could mean identifying the name and occupation of a person you're looking at through facial recognition, giving you pricing information from competing retailers about a product you're looking at, or providing phone numbers or opening hours for a building or store just by looking at it.
SOURCE Charlie Rose
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