NASA to develop augmented reality glasses for astronauts

New York: Several outer space tasks like doing repairs and conducting experiments may become a lot easier for astronauts now as NASA is developing augmented reality glasses like Google Glass for them. These specially developed glasses can project any information needed by its user right into the glasses' lenses.

NASA has recently teamed up with the San Francisco-based company Osterhout Design Group to develop such computerised glasses. Presently, astronauts in space missions solely rely on printed instruction manuals. If they are doing repairs on outer space they use index cards, held together by metal rings, in order to give them information on how to fix the problem.