Google Glass precursors in SF

In Sean Stewart's The Night Watch, set in an alternate 2074, one character in conversation with another sees that "Words and numbers were pouring across Emily's brown eyes in tiny blue lines...Emily Thompson screened prodigious amounts of information, even by Southside standards... A new wash of information cascaded across Emily's contact lenses. Lines of Chinese characters flowed by."

This was published in 1997. It made me wonder about other SF that predicted something very Google Glass-like, i.e., not direct computer to brain connections and similar more conversational assistants, but near field visual projections. In films there was Terminator (robot) and Robo-Cop (half robot) but I'm more interested in written SF and normal humans.

Serendipitously I just read the following article today. A reporter breaks and goes a bit SF with a new development, close to the google glass maybe.
Graphene smart contact lenses could give you thermal infrared and UV vision

Cool! But no X-ray vision?

In A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge, the Qeng Ho interstellar traders wear "huds", heads-up displays, to connect with their computers. The devices record a video stream from the wearer's point of view. Vinge introduces huds early, and we are to understand later that they are the preferred interfaces.

One of my favorite books is Hellspark by Janet Kagan. Characters in the book use "goggles" (if I remember the right term) which were similar to Google Glass, though more advanced.

Charles Stross' Halting State and Rule 34 have extensive use of google glass-type technology.

From 2001, Charles Stross' "Tourist", a short story which became chapter 2 of Accelerando: "His glasses are rebooting continuously...".

>7 dukedom_enough:

Yeah, "Tourist" was the first thing I thought of.