Google Glass will restart
A team of engineers at Google Glass in its blog announced the completion of the Explorer Edition program on January 19, under which volunteers who received smart points for $ 1,500 in February 2013, participated in testing the prototype Glass. According to the authors of the project, they have “grown up” from a separate division of the Google X lab and are ready to start working on glasses “to turn the concept into reality”. Thus, the version of the Wall Street Journal journalists that Google Glass will receive a significant software and hardware update in the near future was confirmed first-hand.
The head of the updated program will be Ivy Ross , who joined Google in May of this year. According to the editor-in-chief of the MIT Technology Review publication, the participation of a woman in the project is due to the fact that Ivy was previously involved in a fashion-related business, selling glasses and jewelry design, which should do a good service for the development of the project. As Ivi says, in the updated gadget battery life will increase, the quality of the screen and sound will increase, and the glasses themselves will become much cheaper.
There are no specific deadlines for the release of a new or commercial version of Google Glass, however, according to Wall Street Journal sources, the main improvement to Glass 2.0 will be Intel's new chip (the previous Texas manufacturer has left the business) and an updated battery, which is almost The main problem of the gadget is autonomy.
Ivy Ross, Head of Google Glass
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First mentioned in April 2012, Google’s smart glasses, according to the authors, were supposed to perform about the following tasks:
As many bloggers noted , including on Habré , almost all of these functions have been working on users' smartphones for a long time, so the convenience of glasses lies in the fact that the smartphone screen is moved closer to the user's eyes and does not require the participation of hands.
In the aggregate, all this created the specific glory of Glass as an interesting gadget, but without real application scenarios. Since there was less and less news about the project on the Internet, many technical observers began to consider glasses as a failed Google project, which, however, turned out to be wrong.
The head of the updated program will be Ivy Ross , who joined Google in May of this year. According to the editor-in-chief of the MIT Technology Review publication, the participation of a woman in the project is due to the fact that Ivy was previously involved in a fashion-related business, selling glasses and jewelry design, which should do a good service for the development of the project. As Ivi says, in the updated gadget battery life will increase, the quality of the screen and sound will increase, and the glasses themselves will become much cheaper.
There are no specific deadlines for the release of a new or commercial version of Google Glass, however, according to Wall Street Journal sources, the main improvement to Glass 2.0 will be Intel's new chip (the previous Texas manufacturer has left the business) and an updated battery, which is almost The main problem of the gadget is autonomy.
Ivy Ross, Head of Google Glass
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First mentioned in April 2012, Google’s smart glasses, according to the authors, were supposed to perform about the following tasks:
- Remind the owner of the events in his calendar
- Notify about updates in social networks
- Serve as navigator
- Take photos and videos
- Understand voice commands related to Google services in one way or another, like video calls on Google Plus
As many bloggers noted , including on Habré , almost all of these functions have been working on users' smartphones for a long time, so the convenience of glasses lies in the fact that the smartphone screen is moved closer to the user's eyes and does not require the participation of hands.
In the aggregate, all this created the specific glory of Glass as an interesting gadget, but without real application scenarios. Since there was less and less news about the project on the Internet, many technical observers began to consider glasses as a failed Google project, which, however, turned out to be wrong.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/375587/
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