Does the electronic screen really disappear?

Looking back over the last more than 100 years, the way people transmit information, from Telegraph, telephone, radio, television, computer to smartphone, tablet computer, wearable equipment, the development of information technology has made the efficiency of information transmission dope, and the information media has gradually evolved into advanced, intelligent, portable and diversified.

Does the electronic screen really disappear?

As you can see everyday, human beings are now entering a multiple-screen era, such as mobile phones, computers, television, outdoor billboards, car navigation, doorbell and even watches, refrigerators and routers and so on almost all consumer electronics are equipped with a screen, we need a lot of screens to display information and realize interaction.

Predictably, the screens will be everywhere for the next few years. But the laws of nature are extremes, and if you look a few more years, when the screen of life is more than a certain amount of waste, like 100 years ago every household need to install a generator to power the same, at that time only need everyone to wear their own smart glasses is enough, and may even be electronic contact lenses.

So much of the ubiquitous electronic screen should be gone, because when you need to get information, smart glasses will show you any size of a virtual screen, small to a few inches to hundreds of inches is not a problem, and these behind by cloud computing, large data, and high-speed wireless network support. As Google X, the company's smart-glasses research and Development department, has predicted, technology should serve, emerge when needed, and disappear when it is not needed.

Microsoft Glasses triggers visual revolution

Since Google launched the Google Glass Smart glasses project in 2012, the global technology industry has set off a new trend for wearable devices, including the Oculus, which was later bought by Facebook as a 2 billion-dollar deal, and Samsung as a key project gear Blink can find the shadow of Google Glass.

Although Google Glass is creating a new wave of smart glasses, but Google Glass for a variety of reasons and did not like the original expected to enter the mass consumer market, and the real smart glasses to the climax of the recent release of Microsoft's holographic smart glasses HoloLens.

Many people think that the automatic photo-taking feature has made Google Glass's initial popularity, but in fact Google Glass's biggest contribution to the technology is the first time it has easily shifted from bulky electronic devices such as televisions, computers and mobile phones to small glasses. While this is a small step for Google Glass, it is a big step for smart glasses and wearable equipment, and a bold attempt to innovate next-generation consumer electronics.

and Microsoft HoloLens than Google Glass a big step forward, because HoloLens not only transferred the screen successfully to the glasses, but also realized the virtual image and the reality of the superposition of images, but also realized the virtual space of three-dimensional image display and body sense of interaction. HoloLens fusion of virtual reality and augmented reality technology, so that holographic imaging technology and visual interaction has made a breakthrough, it is no exaggeration to say that this will be consumer electronics decades of a visual revolution. As Sogou CEO Wang Xiaoquan said, Microsoft glasses will lead humanity into a new era.

Smart glasses have the potential to subvert smartphones

Now it's 8 years since the birth of Apple's first-generation iphone, the smartphone revolutionary product in the past 8 years, there have been few disruptive changes in smartphone hardware technology, from cell phone chips to display screens, which are basically based on the original technology, such as faster CPUs, larger memory, and wider screens. In the face of mobile phone technology innovation bottlenecks are becoming more and more obvious, people can not help but ask whether the smartphone to go to the end?

When we think about it, smartphones are better and more popular than the Nokia-era feature machines, primarily by making breakthroughs in screens and interactions, and then driving the boom in content and apps. Today's smart glasses, like Microsoft HoloLens, are a better screen and interactive than smartphones.

The current smart glasses can basically do all the work that a smartphone can do, such as watching video, playing games, watching news, listening to music, instant messaging and so on, and it can do a lot of smart phone can not do the application of the scene, such as virtual reality games, three-dimensional film and television, augmented reality distance education, three-dimensional industrial design and parts assembly and so on.

As the saying goes, "history does not repeat itself, but it tends to be strikingly similar", the smartphone eventually overturns the feature machine, and smart glasses now have the potential to subvert smartphones. Although the current smart glasses are bulky, ugly appearance, high manufacturing costs, three-dimensional lack of content and many other limitations, and the computer just Windea when the situation is very similar. However, with the rapid development of Moore's Law and new materials nanotechnology, technological progress and non-linear growth but exponential growth, believe that not too long smart glasses will bring mankind into a new visual era.