The future....Now.

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Dudes, you need to get in touch with the makers of these...

http://www.firebox.com/product/2896/Zeal-Optics-GPS-Goggles?via=cat

If you manage to get gps enabled on your gmapcatcher without having to be 
online, then you can have satellite imagery combined with a gps system 
resulting in a very accurate 'heavenly' perspective on things.

If you then bundled that into a pair of googles with say gps ability such as 
the link above. 

Well then your talking a tool and a half man! 

Just a thought anyways, if you dudes collab with them i reckon you'd probably 
make a few euro's/pounds (*insert currency of your choice). As well as deliver 
a cool new ability to people in general. 

Of course i'm sure like a lot of other things this could be used for bad 
purposes too, but then surely someone has allready tohught hang on a minute if 
we have satellite imagery beamed into a pair of shades with gps we can get a 
real-time view of whats going on, from earth so to speak. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ObiDanKi...@googlemail.com on 15 Dec 2010 at 11:13

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I'm not sure what's your idea, but that LCD display in the goggles is very 
small and is only to display few GPS stats...

Be careful with those advertisements, it probably does not even do half of what 
they advertise.

Original comment by heldersepu on 15 Dec 2010 at 11:31

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O.k so using a modular approach what i'm saying is take a program like 
gmapcatcher. o.k so it displays maps offline right.

Cool so now you take the viewer from gmapcatcher, you get the gps marker 
working on it, so it overlays the gps pointer with optional line ontop of the 
satellite data. You then have live data from the heavens (to an extent anyways 
obviously not completely live in the sense of seeing things move around you, 
but live in the sense you move, the pointer moves, which in turn moves the 
gmapcatcher pointer, thus 'following' you about.

O.k so once this has been achieved on for example a netbook or laptop and you 
can walk around and the pointer moves tracking the movements ontop of google 
satellite (or whatever for that fact, satellite imagery). 

So thats stage 1. Doing this would i believe enable a third person perspective 
in real-time. This can find use in a whole number of operations/applications, 
live data would be mega useful on say ships (for plotting routes through 
shallow waters e.t.c/map data could be changed to terrain or even specific 
sea-scales). But what highlighted the point was how it may be useful in for 
example those snowboarding goggles. Imagine white out conditions, it would be 
the equivalent of being able to see through the storm. 

I reckon their must be small lcd screens that can display a fair amount of 
resolution. 

You have a small computer unit on the belt perhaps, it transmits via bluetooth 
to the goggles. If the small computer on the belt can run gmapcatcher (i.e 
wouldn't have to be a massively powerful computer) and then beam it to the 
goggles (assuming gps compatibility is fixed in gmapcatcher first of course ;) 
then you would be able to store a database of offline maps (including satellite 
data) in the computer belt (very easily harddrives are getting small and 
smaller these days)beam it to the goggles and have a real-time birds eye view 
of exactly where you are as well as the stats that the aforementioned goggles 
appear to have. 

Hope this helps ;) 

Original comment by ObiDanKi...@googlemail.com on 16 Dec 2010 at 11:08

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actually snowboarding uses would be limited due to constantly shifting 
pistes.....but other uses would still exist ;)

Original comment by ObiDanKi...@googlemail.com on 16 Dec 2010 at 11:13

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Original comment by heldersepu on 13 Oct 2011 at 9:02

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