Question of tastes 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.
When the Sony glasses are part of a current 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 glasses : see So your applications or notifications in both 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 mounts themselves include sensors of all sorts. An accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, light sensor, all weighing 77 grams. Multimedia side, the glasses feature a 3 megapixel sensor capable of shooting VGA, everything that appears in shades of green on glasses … 419 x 138 pixels Bluetooth 3.0 and WiFi are about they used to connect to the smartphone.
not forget that it is still only a prototype development and design, currently little discreet, may need to evolve. Sony seems to believe, however, today announcing the Nippon 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 In the meantime, applications and augmented reality to display information -. green (see video below) should have multiplied
. 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 uses or highly specialized professionals. They are thus indicated for example surgeons and 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 that a dedicated revive the finances of the brand product demonstration, initiated by a mobile division to punishment in recent months.
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Edit Baptiste: I had a chance to test in 2011 draft to the product shown in the video. This product to me at the time, particularly excited because unlike Google Glass that only provide contextual information, Sony is on the path of “mixed reality” shown in the film. The promise of mixed reality is to superimpose objects or information that our eyes see naturally.
The unit gives the impression of having a single “screen” translucent before their eyes. The way is long to arrive at the final product. A persistent problem for example: the perceived distance between itself and the information being fixed, while we would like these appear there or the eye is the focus. As for robots: the Japanese are working on this issue for several years and know that they still have decades before them
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