Matter of taste, no doubt. Even as the availability of Google Glass with the international mainstream approaches, Sony is preparing its response. It will take the form of SmartEyeglass whose arrival on the market, as a prototype for developers, is scheduled for the month of March 2015.
A prototype has already been presented at the MWC in Barcelona in February 2014, and a month earlier at CES in Las Vegas. The SmartEyeglass Sony are none other than glasses connected in the vein of Google Glass, although their pace, at least in their current form is far to get closer. These considerations aside, these glasses are designed to connect to a smartphone running Android 4.3 at least to run the video recording on the glasses.
If Sony's glasses are part of a trend to connect the glasses, they move away from the approach of Google. Instead of a lens to project an image into the field of vision in one eye, the SmartEyeglass rely on a binocular system where light information flows inside the glasses, so you'll see your notifications or applications of the two eyes. In its prototype version, the instrument is equipped with a separate wired remote that one imagines doomed to disappear afterwards, even though it has the advantage to take the battery glasses and a microphone. A touch sensor ensures navigation.
The frames themselves include sensors of all kinds: an accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, light sensor, all weighing 77 grams. Multimedia side, the glasses feature a 3 megapixel sensor capable of shooting VGA, all that appears in shades of green on glasses ... 419 x 138 pixels Bluetooth 3.0 and WiFi are in turn used to connect to the smartphone.
Do not forget that this is still only a prototype development and design, currently little discreet, may need to evolve. Sony seems to believe, however, Nippon today announcing the availability of an SDK for developers before providing a hardware development kit to these developers by the end of the fiscal year, in March 2015 . meantime, augmented reality applications and information display - green (see video below) should have multiplied.
Not really use public
And if Sony is not going to mention a date, he does not hide his intention to bring his project to a sale to the public. Let us not fool ourselves, however : it is not for the brand to offer a very mainstream product oriented GPS navigation or entertainment as will Google Glass, but rather to provide appropriate spectacles for professional use or very specialized. They would be so indicated eg surgeons or professionals to access information while their hands are busy. It also reminds of the case of the deaf, which could via a voice recognition system, to appear before their eyes the "subtitles" when conversing with others. Although the general public brand mentions in his paper, it is doubtful that this particular model has SmartEyeglass such ambitions with a project in the laboratories of Sony since the late 2000s the project, it will certainly be more a technology demonstration that a destined to boost the finances of the brand, initiated by a mobile division to the trouble in recent months product.
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