Google’s Project Glass

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• Publié par: Fil_actu
• Publié le: 20 février 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 103
• Langue: English

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Google’s Project Glass

TIME's Best Inventions of 2012 Presented by Mengqi Wan (Angela) 1/17/2013

What is it?

• Project Glass is a research and development program by Google to develop an augmented reality head-mounted display(HMD). • Project Glass products would display information in Smart-Phone-like format hands-free and could interact with the Internet via natural language voice commands. • ͞Use TeĐhnologLJ NaturallLJ͟

More details • Hardware – Video display – Camera – Speaker – Microphone – Micro USB port – Motion sensor – Touchpad – GPS • Software – Android OS – Mirror API

Features

• Communication through images • Rapid access to information

Prototype • At Google’s I/O ĐonferenĐe in ϮϬϭϮ, ͞Edžplorer Editions͟ of the glasses ǁould ďe sold to deǀelopers for $1,500 in early 2013. • The Glass FoundrLJ eǀents ǁill ďe hosted at Google’s San Francisco and New York officers on January 28 and 29 and February 1 and 2.

The Future

• Babak Parviz, Director of Project Glass, recently commented that Project Glass remains a work in progress and the details surrounding its function, use, and benefit are yet to be determined. • Sergey Brin, Google co-founder, announced his hopes to release the consumer version of Project Glass, sometime in 2014. The company is also aiming for a price point below $1,500.

Citation

• http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414344 ,00.asp • http://blog.programmableweb.com/2013/01/10/ googles-project-glass-and-the-api-assumption/ • http://techland.time.com/2012/11/01/best- inventions-of-the-year-2012/slide/google- glass/#ixzz2I5wqGJ52 • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/28/pro ject-glass-release-google_n_1634590.html