The first real patent for Microsoft's project "Fortaleza" glasses has been issued.  The patent, describing a method for inviting someone to join a multiplayer game using a head mounted display goes into detail about the technology being planned for the glasses as well as potentially the UI intended.

The glasses will feature eye tracking, an optical sensor, a position sensor, a microphone, speakers, and wireless.

The patent also suggest that the UI users would explore would be a 3D representational environment.  Whether this was like the PlayStation Networks Home or simply an augmentation of the a real-world environment with 3D images of other users is yet unknown.

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So Google Glasses for gaming? Interesting.

Yes, though the head tracking and optical sensor suggests there has to be a base of some sort it interacts with.  Whether that's a combination of Kinect and the Xbox One or another base unit altogether separate, I don't know. 

Interestingly enough, this design fits perfectly with several patents (nearly a dozen by my rough count) that Microsoft has received regarding projecting displays.  If the patents apply to the glasses, the lenses employ a projector at the top of the frame, and that projector projects the image down through the lens.

I thought Microsoft may have been working on a display that utilized it, and they may still.  But if they can fit a pico projector into the frame of a pair of glasses then Microsoft's patents would work for projecting a display through a lens.

I'm looking forward to see what they could do with it, hopefully in the coming years. As long as it's affordable, which is not a guaranteed with any new technology, I could see it implemented for the X1.

Those leaked plans are so good. Honestly surprised how accurate they are.

Gamespot has also written an article on it.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/microsoft-files-patent-for-head-mounted-display-6412424

Just in case anyone is interested in knowing this. I broke this story here on VGChartz.

NeoGAF picked it up using my images at nearly 4AM, then everyone else picked it up after that.

Well...once this thing is released, it'll either be a hit or miss. I'll be watching you, Microsoft.

I wonder if M$ can find a way to get a RROD into a pair of glasses?