2014 is already looking like a great year for 3D creativity. Assembled 3D printers are coming out priced at under 500 euros, new low-cost high-quality 3D scanners are launching and, if that weren’t enough, the first SpaceGlasses are going to be delivered in July.
But what does a pair of augmented reality glasses have to do with 3D printing you may ask? A lot… As Elon Musk, the world’s favorite serial entrepreneur demonstrated on Space X’s YouTube channel, it is just so much more fun to create rockets virtually through 3D mapped holograms and then send them straight to the 3D printer.
That’s exactly what the giant 3D holographic HD screen of the SpaceGlasses will allow you to do, along with mirroring your mobile devices, installing a plethora of augmented reality (AR) apps and playing holographic virtual games.
As the founder of both Space X and Tesla Motors, Musk is one to the world’s highest profile adopters of 3D printing technology and is likely to be one to the first target customers for Meta and its SpaceGlasses.
Someone else interested in the SpaceGlasses’ technology might be Google’s Sergey Brin: so far Google Glass has not paid much attention to the issue of AR based 3D printing. Maybe it is time they did, since they are also due to hit the market in 2014.
