Google Glass (2013) with Mann's Digital Eye Glass[10] (1980) on affectation at the "History of AR Vision" affectation at Aggrandized World Expo, 2013. Both are apparent recording video, with anniversary bottle lit up accordingly.
Google Glass (styled "GLΛSS") is a wearable computer with a head-mounted affectation (HMD) that is actuality developed by Google in the Activity Glass analysis and development project,[11] with the mission of bearing a mass-market all-over computer.[1] Google Glass displays advice in a smartphone-like hands-free format,[12] that can collaborate with the Internet via accustomed accent articulation commands.[13][14]
While the frames do not currently accept lenses adapted to them, Google is because partnerships with sunglass retailers such as Ray-Ban or Warby Parker, and may additionally accessible retail food to acquiesce barter to try on the device.[1] The Explorer Edition cannot be acclimated by bodies who abrasion decree glasses, but Google has accepted that Glass will eventually assignment with frames and lenses that bout the wearer's prescription; the glasses will be modular and accordingly possibly attachable to accustomed decree glasses.[15]
Glass is actuality developed by Google x,[16] which has formed on added affected technologies such as driverless cars. The activity was appear on Google+ by Activity Bottle advance Babak Parviz, an electrical architect who has additionally formed on putting displays into acquaintance lenses; Steve Lee, a artefact administrator and "geolocation specialist"; and Sebastian Thrun, who developed Udacity as able-bodied as formed on the self-driving car project.[17] Google has patented the architecture of Activity Glass.[18][19] Thad Starner, an aggrandized absoluteness expert, is a abstruse lead/manager on the project.[20]
Not to be abashed with Google Goggles.
Google Glass
Google Glass Explorer Edition
Also accepted as Activity Bottle
Developer Google
Manufacturer Coconino
Type Aggrandized absoluteness (AR), head-mounted affectation (HD), Wearable technology, Wearable computer
Release date Developers (US): February 2013[1]
Consumers: Q4 2013[2][3][4]
Introductory amount
Explorer version: $1,500 USD[5]
Anticipated: $199 USD
Operating arrangement Android[6] (4.0.4[7])
Power Lithium Polymer array (2.1 Wh)[8]
CPU OMAP 4430 SoC, dual-core[8]
Storage accommodation 16 GB Flash total[8] (12 GB of accessible memory)[9]
Memory 1GB RAM (682MB accessible to developers)
Display Prism projector, 640×360 pixels (equivalent of a 25 in. awning from 8 ft. away[9])
Sound Bone advice transducer[9]
Input Articulation command through microphone,[9] accelerometer,[9] gyroscope,[9] magnetometer,[9] ambient ablaze sensor, adjacency sensor
Controller ascribe Touchpad, MyGlass buzz app
Camera Photos - 5 MP, videos - 720p[9]
Connectivity Wi-Fi 802.11b/g,[9] Bluetooth,[9] micro USB
Backward
compatibility Any Bluetooth-capable phone; MyGlass accompaniment app requires Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich) or higher[9]
Website google.com/glass
A Bottle ancestor apparent at Google I/O in June 2012
