The New Google Glass Rumored to Target on Businesses

When Google Glass first launched for consumers’ usage, there were a lot of controversies surround it.  There were concerns about privacy as Google Glass is able to take pictures of people without their consents and use it to find information about the interest person. Thus, some bars, restaurants and movie theaters have to ban the device.

According to the report published in The Wall Street Journal recently, the next Google Glass will be made for business usage such as in healthcare, manufacturing and energy sectors. As such, we can expect the consumers’ version to be released at a later date, most probably within a year at least.

The new Google Glass will not have the wire frame as the original Explorer version but it will retain the curved glass rectangle design with a button and hinge system to attach itself to other glasses. On top of that, instead of mass production, the device will have to be custom-programmed by software developers for specific business users. It will be start to be used by corporations in the fourth quarter.

Google planned to open a few stores around the U.S. starting from San Francisco for people who are buying the product to be able to get it fitted on while they waited. The new version of Google Glass will be powered by Intel SoC, therefore, we can expect better performance, and the battery life is rumored to stretch up to 2 hours. However, with a pricing tag of $1500, the device is rather pricey, does it?

The New Google Glass Rumored to Target on Businesses

MPAA and NATO Updated Theatrical Anti-Theft Policy

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) has announced that they are going to prevent film theft in theaters. The update to their joint policy involved a fully integrate wearable tech into the rules following the joint meeting of NATO and MPAA theatrical anti-piracy teams at ShowEast. ShowEast is the annual industry convention and trade show in Hollywood, Florida.

Below is the updated part of the policy:

The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have a long history of welcoming technological advances and recognize the strong consumer interest in smart phones and wearable “intelligent” devices. As part of our continued efforts to ensure movies are not recorded in theaters, however, we maintain a zero-tolerance policy toward using any recording device while movies are being shown. As has been our long-standing policy, all phones must be silenced and other recording devices, including wearable devices, must be turned off and put away at show time. Individuals who fail or refuse to put the recording devices away may be asked to leave. If theater managers have indications that illegal recording activity is taking place, they will alert law enforcement authorities when appropriate, who will determine what further action should be taken.

It seems like the recording devices including wearable devices is referring to Google Glass and smartwatches. However, the Google Glass battery will die after about 30 minutes of continuous recording therefore it needs about 4 Google Glass to capture the entire movie whereas the wearable device is most probably referring to Samsung Gear line which has video capture capability. However, with this device you can only capture 15-seconds at a time and only at 640×480 resolutions.

MPAA and NATO Updated Theatrical Anti-Theft Policy

Google doesn’t want Google Glass Explorers to be Glassholes

Google Glass might be a cool gadget but sometimes Glass wearers flaunt them around acting like jerks and are called “Glassholes”. Google has published some Do’s and Don’ts for its Google Glass explorers to follow while wearing the Glass. Google feels that being rude will not get others excited about Google Glass and will spoil its brand image.

One of the Do’s says, “Ask for permission. Standing alone in the corner of a room staring at people while recording them through Glass is not going to win you any friends. The Glass camera function is no different from a cell phone so behave as you would with your phone and ask permission before taking photos or videos of others.”

Some Google Glass wearers do not like it when they are asked to take off their Glass at public places. For instance, an engineer Nick Starr was asked to remove his Google Glass at the Lost Lake Cafe and Lounge in Seatle. He was not pleased with this, there was an argument and he was eventually asked to leave by the owners of the Cafe. Nick posted something derogatory about the restaurant on his Facebook page in reply to which, the restaurant called him and his type as “Google Glass wearing man children stinkin up the joint.“

Another Google Glass explorer Katy Kasmai was not pleased when she was asked to take off her Glass at the Feast Restaurant in Third Avenue, New York. She posted this on her Google+ account:

“For the first time ever this place, Feast, in #NYC just asked that I remove +Google Glass because customers have complained of privacy concerns in the past. Never has happened to me before in the one year I’ve had Glass. I left. #throughglass Feast.”

After this, the restaurant started getting one-star ratings on Google reviews from people who might not even have set foot in the restaurant. As Shawn Mernagh giving one-star to Feast wrote, “They discriminate against people who are into new technology. Do not eat here.“

A string of one-star ratings from those who hadn’t even been to Feast caused its overall Google rating to drop to 2.4 which hurt the business a lot. The restaurant felt this to be “malicious and technically a violation of Google’s own terms for leaving reviews.” By giving bad reviews like this, Google Glass wearers really did behave like Glassholes which Google doesn’t want them to do.

When this news became public, some people visited Google reviews and gave Feast five-star reviews which boosted its overall rating to 3.1. All Google Glass wearers are not Glassholes as is proved by a comment from Zenzi Mulder, “Awesome restaurant, kindly asked if I could remove my Google Glass because others were feeling uncomfortable, luckily Im not the kind of entitled douche to refuse that or get butthurt. Had a great meal.“

Google wants the general public to accept Google Glass technology and welcome Glass wearers into the society. If Google Glass explorers are not allowed at various places, it will show the Glass in poor light and hurt its brand image.

As the last point of Google’s Don’ts states:

“Don’t Be creepy or rude (aka, a “Glasshole”). Respect others and if they have questions about Glass don’t get snappy. Be polite and explain what Glass does and remember, a quick demo can go a long way. In places where cell phone cameras aren’t allowed, the same rules will apply to Glass. If you’re asked to turn your phone off, turn Glass off as well. Breaking the rules or being rude will not get businesses excited about Glass and will ruin it for other Explorers.”

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Google doesn’t want Google Glass Explorers to be Glassholes

App Review : Google Glass SHORE App To Read Human"s Emotion

The new app for Google Glass is designed to be able to read human’s emotion. Shore Human Emotion Detector (SHORE) was developed by researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Germany. Its capability includes ability to detect someone’s age, gender and basic emotions. The apps can gauge someone’s feeling based on the 10,000 number of annotated face records in the database. It is able to detect whether someone is happy, sad or angry among all the other type of emotion.

The software was built to help people with communicative disability, for example: autism, so that they can interact better in the society. Another usage of this app is for visually impaired people, so that the missing information can be relayed to the wearer by using audio playback. Fraunhofer emphasize that the app will not able to tell the person’s identity, it is only able to analyse and gauge someone’s feeling at that period of time. Furthermore, in attempt to protect the user’s privacy, the researchers have promised not to send any images or data to the cloud.

Although it has been tested by participating in the Google Glass Explorer Program, the researchers are yet to confirm the launch date of the product. In any case, their challenge is to solve the optimization issue and the ability to run the app in any platform or operating system.

App Review : Google Glass SHORE App To Read Human"s Emotion

Samsung Gear Blink, Google Glass competitor to arrive in March 2015

Back in May, there was a rumor that Samsung would launch its Google Glass competitor Gear Glass at the IFA 2014 Berlin expo. However, this was not found to be the case when the expo took place in past few days. However, one more rumor has now popped out that Samsung is still is works with such kind of wearable and what now is said that the Tizen powered Samsung Gear Blink might be released next year in March 2015.

However, this information has arrived from an unnamed “industry source” and so we like you to take with a pinch of salt. However, we still can believe that Samsung might possibly plan to unveil this wearable along with the Galaxy S6 that is expected to arrive at the same period of time. Samsung usually plans most of its big release in March or October. The above image shows a patent image from Samsung for its Gear Glass wearable so we can expect the Gear Blink to be looking something similar to that.

 

 

Samsung Gear Blink, Google Glass competitor to arrive in March 2015

Watch Roger Federer’s Game From His perspective With Google Glass

Playing tennis is fun and full of joy but do you know how a professional plays a game? Any tennis lover, or in fact the person who ddoesn’tplay tennis, must know the name Roger Federer. Can you play tennis like him? Obviously not, but do you want to see the game and the view of the court from the eyes of the champion? Well, if you want then you must see the video below.

Roger Federer, a famous tennis star and 17-time Grand Slam champion, has shown the world his tennis game from his eyes and he completed this mission with the help of a Google Glass.

Some time ago, the tennis star has played a friendly match at search giant’s headquarters in Mountain View. Federer has played the friendly match against his current coach, who used to be the number one tennis player, Stefan Edberg.

If the level of elites is not enough for you then seeing it through a professional’s eyes must change your viewing perspective of tennis court. Your game and Federer game will seem very different and fast to you. Watch for yourself and compare your game.

Federer viewpoint for making of this video was also great. He said to the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), “It was really fun shooting this video.” Federer added, “It’s not often you get to explore new angles of watching tennis. I hope fans enjoy this new perspective.”

This is how Federer sees his own game play:

Watch Roger Federer’s Game From His perspective With Google Glass

C1 announced by Lenovo will compete with Google Glass

While Google Glass is still in beta phase, Lenovo has introduced a competitor for Google Glass and is looking to gain support for it. The new wearable has been named as C1.

The C1 is designed to be worn like Google Glass but it is not similar to Glass in design in some ways. The battery in C1 has different placement; it is worn around the neck. Not much is revealed about the device by Lenovo but it introduced the platform which it hoped to join developers on to support the new wearable and for other things.

The platform NBD will provide support for the C1 and many other things relating with mobile software landscape. NBD can help the developers and its partners through financial aid, research work and production. Luftmed, a German outfit is one such company. The company manufactures air purifiers that are affordable and can be controlled with Smartphone.

Although NBD has only roots in China now but with the help of Lenovo it can expand its roots worldwide.

Lenovo had partnered with Vuzix and its planning on bringing M100 smart glasses to China. The smart glass runs on Android 4.0.4, with 1GHz OMAP4460 CPU and 1GB RAM. The storage can be expanded to 4GB. It has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and includes motion gestures. People in China will be able to purchase it from July 31st; it is priced at 8,000 yuan or $1300.

For now we can only wait to find more about C1, more information will be revealed in October.

C1 announced by Lenovo will compete with Google Glass

Microsoft patents glasses with augmented reality that can recognize items

Microsoft have applied for a patent application with the name Wearable Behavior-Based Vision System.These are basically augmented reality smart glasses just like Google Glass which in addition to just recognizing objects also predicts their behavior. The new Microsoft glasses would be able to recognize a car, determine the direction of its movement and would even inform the glass wearer to any possible threat posed out by the car.

 

The excellent part of the glasses would be they would be able to merge virtual and real world. This means that if you are playing a virtual game at home, the glasses would recognize real world obstacles like table or chair and show it on the screen so that you can avoid them.

Well, we would certainly like to see this Google Glass competitor arriving soon into the market.

Microsoft patents glasses with augmented reality that can recognize items

Dutch Police with Samsung Galaxy S5 & Dubai Police with Google Glass

Mobile technology has already achieved enough development efforts for every person. People are getting everything easier than before and started to depending on the mobile technology for different types of apps and features. A tap of a finger technology has given the Smartphone a new market along with other developed features. Dutch police is planning to use Samsung Galaxy S5 that comes with fingerprint scanning feature. On the other hand, the Dubai police are planning of using Google Glass for the daily rounds.

Android Planet has claimed a short report on the police plans that represents Dutch police is going to replace 35000 Samsung Galaxy S5 instead of blackberry Smartphones. The fingerprint scanner feature is the reason of choosing the new Smartphone while a social app will also be developed soon for the Dutch police in order to help them. Scanning documents and identifying the people will be the main purpose of using this Smartphone for Dutch Police. Dutch Police with Samsung Galaxy S5 will be seen probably in the starting of 2015.

However, the deal is not set yet and no party has not confirmed about the deal too. However, the Police Spokesman Niels Nijman has reported that the negotiations and discussions are going on with the upper level as well as the Samsung Company.

At the same time, The Gulf News has reported that Dubai Police will soon start to use the Google Glass for erring motorist and getting information of wanted vehicles. However, the Dubai Police Smart Services Department is checking the device in order to get the suitable rate for the police.

General Director of Smart Services at Dubai Police, Colonel Khalid Nasser Al Razooqi reported that the Google Glass will be used for identifying the wanted vehicles and it will be easier to get the alert by taking the picture of a vehicle and compare it with the wanted list. With the access of the Google Glass in the police, it will be stronger and highly technical for them.

Dutch Police with Samsung Galaxy S5 & Dubai Police with Google Glass

Samsung to unveil the Gear Glass in September

Samsung is reported to announce Gear Glass at IFA in Berlin which would compete with Google Glass. The Gear glass is expected to be announced along with Galaxy Note 4 and might run on Tizen operating system that is being used in Samsung Gear 2.

This is not the first time Samsung is going to make an announcement at IFA as it has used the same platform to unveil its previous Note devices. However one thing that would be different this time around is that they will also announce Gear Glass along with Note 4 and this Gear Glass keeps it in competition with the No.1 brand in the world “Google”.

A Samsung representative said in Korea that Samsung has the required patents to roll out the Gear Glass as they have already rolled out the Smartwatch and have required expertise and experience. He also said that the Gear Glass would be rolled out in September this year while the Smartwatch was also released in the same month last year.

The Gear Glass would have a display and an ear piece which would enable the users to listen to the content he/she watches on the screen. While there have been a lot of competition in the Glass wearable industry, Samsung might be able to give tough Competition to Google.

Samsung to unveil the Gear Glass in September

Google Glass Available for sale

If you have heard about Google glass and wish to acquire one for yourself, then Google has good news for you. A wearable computer invented by Google, that can be carried anywhere and everywhere, Google glass in a revolutionary technique in the field of Computers. As the name suggests, Google glass is an optical head mounted device.

Google initially made the product available for only those who received invitations. It has many interesting features like a touch pad, which is located on side of device. Users can swipe through a timeline like interface that is been displayed on the screen. Sliding backwards and forwards, gives you access to multiple options like weather, phone calls, photos, past events, etc. Besides, a 720p HD video camera is also been provided to take photos and record videos. For more information about the device, you can visit www.google.com/glass/start/.

The product is been made available for the public, that too without invitations from 15^th of May. The price for one piece is $15,000 and you can order as long as the stocks last. Therefore, it is your chance to possess this very unique and exceptional product, and there is nothing bad in flaunting a little about it.

Google also took feedback from the first time users and recorded a video. The video is been embedded with this article. Listen to what others have to say about it and make a quick decision; and if you are sure about buying the product, it is just a click away.

 

[Image credit: Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images]

Google Glass Available for sale

Samsung Gear Glass to be unveiled at IFA 2014, alongside Note 4

Samsung is expected to wrap off Galaxy Note 4 with a Google Glass competitor. According to the Korean publication report, Samsung is gearing up to roll out “Gear Glass” in time for Europe’s biggest electronics fair IFA 2014, which is to be held Sept. 5-10 this year in Berlin, Germany. The IFA show is a venue that Samsung had used in the past to showcase its Galaxy Note series.Already released a handful of wrist-worn gadgets since the original Galaxy Gear débuted alongside the Note 3 back at last year’s IFA, it now looks as though the company will use the Berlin trade show to announce another brand-new wearable.

The Samsung associate stated that they have rolled out the smartwatch first and have a considerable amount of smart glass-related technology and patents.Following the roll out of their smart watch Galaxy Gear in September last year,they are slated to introduce a smart glass Gear Glass this September. The report noted that the name “Glass Gear” is missing the usual “Galaxy” branding which may reflect Samsung’s ambition to groom it to be its flagship wearable device.

 

The Gear Glass design combines an ear piece and display, enabling people to listen to music with the right ear while looking at the display with the right eye. Gear Glass is expected to run the Tizen Operating System similar to Samsung’s recently updated smartwatches, like the Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo, and the Gear Fit.

Google Glass is still in its early stages. This week, Google started selling it to the public, but it still costs $1,500. Will Google try to convince Samsung to adopt the Android OS prior to Glass Gear debuts this fall or is Samsung hell bent on finally breaking away from Google’s shadow?

Samsung Gear Glass to be unveiled at IFA 2014, alongside Note 4