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NASA to develop augmented reality glasses for astronauts
New York, March 15
Several outer space tasks
like doing repairs and conducting experiments may become a lot easier
for astronauts now as NASA is developing augmented reality glasses like
Google Glass for them.
These specially developed glasses can project any information needed by its user right into the glasses' lenses.
NASA has recently teamed up with the San Francisco-based company Osterhout Design Group to develop such computerised glasses.
According
to the US space agency, it was planning to develop a virtual reality
glass that can project specific how-to guidelines that will then be
followed by the astronauts, according to a Venture Beat report.
Presently, astronauts in space missions solely rely on printed instruction manuals.
If
they are doing repairs on outer space they use index cards, held
together by metal rings, in order to give them information on how to fix
the problem.
NASA's engineering department is on busy developing a system that will integrate the organisations software into the glasses.