The newest google product set to hit the market is one like we have never seen before outside of sci-fy movies. Google glass is a revolutionary piece of technology that begins to make the HUD (Heads Up Display) a reality. This is by making a headband that fits like conventional glasses without lenses that has a small screen in the top right corner of a persons view which displays at 640 x 360 resolution.
Google Glass is a way to use a camera, the Internet, a translator, and our phones, all hands free and on the go. It creates a more accessible and intuitive way to use our phones. With a touch pad on the arm of the glasses and voice control, Google Glass can take any function that needed a screen and put it in front of you. Google Glass costed the lucky developers a hefty $1,500 but is rumored to be significantly cheaper upon release.
What can Google Glass do?
Accompanied with being able to take hands free pictures and videos at 720p, Google Glass utilizes the Google Hangout feature to show friends and family your experiences first hand. GPS becomes more intuitive, displaying turns and directions as if they are on the road, however this feature requires tethering to a cell phone for GPS and Internet access. Google also is developing an android specific Google My Glass app that allows GPS data, texts, and voice to transfer directly to the Google Glass headset.
This also allows for reading and responding with voice, to text messages with no hands, which makes it questionable if Glass will be allowed in the drivers seat. Another brilliant feature of Google Glass is the ability to translate what people are saying and create subtitles on the screen. Google Glass uses voice recognition to take someone else’s voice and translate it almost instantly on screen. Glass comes with a Micro USB cord and charger.
The battery is advertised to last about a day of “typical use”w, yet that is what phones are supposed to last as well. Google Glass has a 16 GB flash storage with 12 GB available for users, paired with Google Drive cloud accessability for expanded storage. Google Glass is Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capable and a very neat feature is Glass will vibrate against your scull to produce all sound so no headphones are needed. There is also a version being designed for perscription lenses if you already wear glasses. Google Glass will be available in 5 different colors: Charcoal (black), Tangerine (orange), Shale (grey), Cotton (white), and Sky (blue).
There are also some third party apps that may come to Google Glass, enhancing its capabilities and features. These features could allow you to indentify a friend in a crowd of people through facial recognition, or dictate e-mails straight from Google Glass. The New York Times has developed an app to display the news when called upon by the user. Other ideas include an airline app to beam flight details so that you know exactly where to go in the airport and what time to be there.
Google Glass is going to be a neat toy to show off to friends but more than likely will not affect daily life on a ground breaking scale. Set to release by the end of the year Google Glass will be popular, but will you get one?
Im not getting any thats for sure. when they come down to 100 bucks i will think about it.