The Looking Glass Concept predicts a future where a single mobile device for place visualisation can offer a touch screen, a built-in camera, a scanner, WiFi connectivity, access to Google Maps (and hopefully Google Earth), Google searching, and image searching.
Visualisations impress us much more deeply and instantly than literal information. As Internet search engine technology advances, we find that the quality of the information we need is being refined each day. At the same time, larger quantities of information are becoming more easily accessible. Are we going to be buried by information that we don't need? The future interfaces of computers, mobile devices, and many other peripherals will be easily flooded with text instructions and explanatory numbers, but that's not the future that everyone’s looking for.
The designer of the Looking Glass Concept believes that future user interfaces will be much easier to use, more intuitive, and will understand human feelings to some extent. Looking Glass visualises the world. It's a real-time information visualisation assistant that can be carried anywhere.
Looking Glass does away with the need to compare the view in front of us with what's on the tiny screen of a typical mobile device. It provides a transparent layer between the user’s eyes and the scene behind the screen. It can provide details about anything seen through the screen just by being pointed at it (clicking it). The user can choose what kind of information is needed and Looking Glass automatically receives the information from the Internet via WiFi. The GPS installed in the device helps the user search for more specific local information if required.
Looking Glass doesn't just offer text and numbers. Utilising the real view that’s seen through the screen, it provides visualised information that the user can intuitively understand. |
