UofR homepage presents some of our research to highlight this day.

In the Back to the Future Part II movie, Dr. Emmett Brown convinces Marty McFly and his girlfriend Jennifer to travel 30 years into the future from 1985. The trio uses the DeLorean time machine to arrive on October 21, 2015.

In honor of the film, the date has been designated “Back to the Future Day.” Today we’re looking at some of the movie’s technological and cultural predictions for 2015. How do they stack up with the present day? And what is the University of Rochester doing to help make the future a reality?

Video glasses

In the movie’s version of 2015, video glasses are used to watch television programs without a large screen.

Today’s “smart glasses” can do that and much more. In fact, wearable tech can even help you with your public speaking by giving you real-time feedback, as computer science professor Ehsan Hoque and his team have shown.