A mobile, wearable imaging system, having operator eyewear with a plurality of semi-transparent lenses, a microphone, a video capture device, and an accelerometer, wherein the semi-transparent lenses provide the operator a full-forward head's up view and a view of an external image superposed on the full-forward head's up view. The system also includes a mobile multifunction controller including an image processor that receives the external image and produces the view of an external image superposed on the full-forward head's up view in the operator eyewear, an audio signal processor, a motion signal processor, a gesture sensor, a manual input device, and a general processor unit, which executes a received system command, and where symbolic data received by the controller is selectively combined with the external image superposed on the full-forward head's up view.