When Google Glass hits the market next year, it’s likely going to start seeing the same improvement cycles as smartphones. By that I mean, look at a flagship phone from 2010 and then look at flagship phone from 2012. In just one cycle, they couldn’t be more different.
Take the display in Google Glass as an example. Right now it pushes 640 x 360 pixels. Sounds great, but a Korean company called RAONTEC thinks they can do better. They’ve announced that they’ve begun shipping samples of a smartglass display called the RDP500H that does 1280 x 720 and pushes roughly 3,000 pixels per inch. Said display also uses just 150 milliwatts.
Overkill? No such thing in this industry, if marketing departments are to be believed.
But seriously, as much as some people might hate how Google Glass looks today, and I include myself in that group, the technology is going to shrink at such a rapid pace that before long we’ll all laugh when we look at the initial Glass prototypes.
