The idea of "simultaneous interpretation goggles" has been around for a few years. Now NEC is taking it a step further by introducing the Tele Scouter, which can combine with voice recognition and machine translation and then instantly project translations directly onto a user's retina. Yes, onto the retina, not the lenses, thus adding a clever feature to augmented reality.
You'll probably agree that "they have a bit of the sense of the Borg from Star Trek," as Don DePalma observed in this BBC audio interview.The Tele Scouter will go on sale in 2011 at 7.5 million yen (approximately $83,000) for a set of 30 headsets. The first version "will use face-recognition software to help shop sales staff identify customers and access their shopping history for that 'personal' sales touch." That gives NEC some time to hopefully see a few more advances in voice recognition and machine translation, both of which are imprecise sciences.
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