If you have two left feet and your dance moves are bad enough to clear the floor at a wedding reception , Google Glass may soon be able to help . A patent awarded to the tech giant this week suggests its headset could teach wearers how to dance to any kind of music . 'Shazam-like ' technology would recognise a tune and suggested dance moves would be shown on the heads-up display that a user could copy . A patent rewarded to Google suggests its headset could teach wearers how dance to any kind of music . 'Shazam-like ' technology would recognise a tune , and suggested dance moves would be shown on the heads up display that a user could copy ( illustrated in this image from the patent ) Shazam is an app that can 'listen ' to songs are identify the track name and artist . The patent suggests that a wearer of the smart spectacles could watch a video of other people dancing in order to understand how the moves should look before following the instructions themselves . And it seems that instructions would show steps in real time , like those for dancing games such as Dance Dance Revolution , so users could dance along in time . In order to work , the device would have to search for appropriate dance moves to fit the beat of a song , which hints that a database of dance moves would be needed , Quartz reported . The Patent reads : ‘ The content identification module may provide information associated with a content of the media sample , such as identification of the song and the dance , to the wearable computing system . The patent suggests that a wearer of the smart spectacles ( stock image ) could watch a video of other people dancing in order to understand how the moves should look , before following the instructions themselves . Google 's chairman , Eric Schmidt , said that the company has n't stopped working on Google Glass . It stopped selling the first generation device in January and moved research to another part of the firm . Schmidt said 'it is a big and very fundamental platform for Google , ' supporting rumours that a second generation model is in the works . It is rumoured to have battery life , sound quality and an improved display , as well as being cheaper . ‘ The wearable computing system may determine dance steps corresponding to the content of the media sample and may generate a display of the dance steps on the HMD [ head mounted display ] . ’ As well as the prospect of performing some embarrassingly outlandish movements compared to those with natural rhythm , perhaps the biggest drawback with the idea is that users would have to wear the attention-grabbing spectacles on a night out . Wears of Google Glass have been already been branded glassholes . As with all patents , there is no guarantee Google will develop the idea further - although Eric Schmidt has recently said that the tech giant hasn ’ t given up on Glass . Google ’ s Chairman told The Wall Street Journal that its technology is too important to scrap , despite the fact that the firm stopped selling the controversial device in January and has closed its Explorer program . The system could risk giving users some embarrassingly outlandish movements to use on a dance floor , but seeing as it 's designed to help those with two left feet ( stock image ) , the instructions may still be an improvement overall . Glass has been moved to a stand-alone research unit and is reportedly being made ready for users . 'It is a big and very fundamental platform for Google , ' Mr Schmidt said . 'We ended the Explorer program and the press conflated this into us cancelling the whole project , which isn ’ t true . 'Google is about taking risks and there ’ s nothing about adjusting Glass that suggests we ’ re ending it . ' He said that ambitious projects such as Glass and Google 's self-driving car simply take time . Google is rumoured to be working on the next generation of Glass , which is expected to have better battery life , sound quality and an improved display , as well as being cheaper .
Patent suggests headset could teach people to dance to any music . Google Glass would recognise a tune with Shazam-like technology . Comment: Wearers could watch videos of how they should look on the dance floor .