Google’s AR translation glasses: it’s really not that simple
To be fair, Google’s AR translation glasses seem much more focused than what Glass was trying to accomplish. From what Google showed, they’re meant to do one thing — display translated text — not act as an ambient computing experience that could replace a smartphone. But even then, making AR glasses isn’t easy. Even a moderate amount of ambient light can make viewing text on see-through screens.
People don’t converse in a vacuum or like machines do. Just like we code-switch when speaking to voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, or the Google Assistant, we know we have to use much simpler sentences when we’re dealing with machine translation. And even when we do speak correctly, the translation can still come out awkward and misconstrued. Some of our
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