Wash the soap out of your eyes. That really (probably) is Robert Scoble’s Google Glass shower photo rendered as a simple line drawing in a U.S. Patent filing by Magic Leap.
The Verge pointed out that it’s the latest in a batch of patent filings from the augmented reality company to feature creative pictures. The patent application dated April 21 says, in part, that “configurations are disclosed for presenting virtual reality and augmented reality experiences to users.”
Scoble, the tech evangelist and futurist, posted the original image back in April 2013 on Google+. He was in the midst of a full-blown Google Glass love fest in which he promised to never take the eyeglass computer off his face. To prove his point, he posed in the shower, open-mouthed and red-faced, proclaiming in his post that the device would obviously withstand “rain or other weather.”
Scoble, who is now entrepreneur in residence at Upload VR, showed some love for Magic Leap earlier this week when he tweeted a YouTube video from the company in which it showcased its vision of the future.
I liked a @YouTube video https://t.co/0wWKlxT7xt A New Morning
— Robert Scoble: VR/AR (@Scobleizer) April 19, 2016
Scoble joined GeekWire on a podcast in February in which he spoke at length about augmented reality and how technology will change what it means to be human.
“You’re going to wear this while walking around, and you’re going to replace your cell phone with this. You’re going to look at something, like the sky out the window, and it’ll tell you stuff about what’s happening outside.”
In a story published this week, Wired revealed what it saw in reality and augmented reality when it went inside Magic Leap’s “mysterious” Florida headquarters. Senior writer Jessi Hemple tried to further explain it during a visit to CNBC:
