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NASA teams up with smartglasses maker on augmented reality goggles for space missions

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Augmented reality smartglasses are getting a boost from National Aeronautics and Space Administration today as the space agency is announcing it is teaming up with Osterhout Design Group to explore the use of ODG’s smartglasses for exploratory activities.

The two will collaborate on the use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) to advance NASA’s future missions in space. That means that astronauts could one day get access to advanced computing and visualization technologies via smartglasses.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.