Steve Mann Quotes

Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.

You see kids walking to the bus, and they're watching product on their phones. I'm positive that my grandkids and their grandkids are going to put on a pair of glasses and watch something.

By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

What I envisioned back in the 1970s was this thing you would wear as 'glass' over your right eye, and you could see the world though that glass. The glass then reconfigures the things you see.

Maybe a day will come when we may have to just put on a pair of glasses and see sports events.

Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.

The issue is not to ask your customers what they want today, but to try to imagine what the customer is going to want in a world where, for instance, their cellphone is in their glasses.

The moonshot for Google Glass is to harmonize the physical and digital worlds. It is specifically to find a way to help people be naturally, elegantly situated, physical and digitally, at the same time.

Technologists and futurists call the mashup of digital info and physical space 'blended reality.'

We imagine that some people will jump into the AR and VR space that are complementary. We look at Google Glass. It's very complementary. It's not competitive. It's a different experience. It's used for different purposes.

I really do think VR is now one of the most exciting things that can be done in this whole sector of consumer electronic entertainment stuff.

No one in Silicon Valley loves virtual reality or believes in its future as much as Clay Bavor.

The future of screens isn't about the iPad. It's much, much bigger.

VR as a display technology, as it's miniaturized and made comfortable and mainstream, will be a replacement for all other forms of display technology, input and output. So for anybody who works with computers all day, this is going to be our future.

I feel in love with holography, which is that you don't have to wear anything or carry anything. It is augmented reality, if you will.

I worked on heads-up displays, virtual-reality technology, and holographic displays - all sorts of really cool technology.

One of my ongoing projects is to expand third-eye technology whereby two people can watch two different things on a screen or type in two different languages on the same surface - all they have to do is wear a pair of hi-tech glass spectacles.

Once you have an augmented reality display, you don't need any other form of display. Your smart phone does not need a screen. You don't need a tablet. You don't need a TV. You just take the screen with you on your glasses wherever you go.

My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all. You'd just have information come to you as you needed it. And Google Glass is now, 15 years later, sort of the first form factor that I think can deliver that vision.

By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.

VR is going to be defined by the content that is designed explicitly for virtual reality.

I'm generally pretty excited about new gadgets, new tech, A.I., stuff like that.

When people ask whether virtual reality will be a real thing or just the next 3D, what I always say is, 'Take a headset, walk outside, and the next person you meet, put it on them and see what the reaction is.'

Every application designed for 2D interfaces will be obsoleted by AR.

Virtual reality has an exciting future and oodles of room to grow.