Saturday, September 20, 2014

Sony SmartEyeGlass: first SDK for connected glasses and … – Generation NT

There are the connected Google Glass glasses , there will be SmartEyeGlass Sony . This will require developers wait until March 2015 to get their hands on the hardware, but now the Japanese group provides a Development Kit for his gadget.

The system will operate in conjunction with a Android smartphone (4.1 for basic functions, 4.3 or more for all possibilities) but the glasses connected Sony will ship a 3 megapixel camera sensor, capable of VGA video recording, motion sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope …), a microphone and an electronic compass (magnetometer), but it will appeal to the smartphone’s GPS to provide contextual information in a process of holography are requiring no mirrors.

Sony SmartEyeGlass functionalities

The display will be monochrome to use less energy and information will appear superimposed, without blocking the field of view. The glasses communicate with an Android smartphone via wireless connectivity Bluetooth 3.0 WiFi 802.11 b / g / n . The unit weighs only 77 grams and has a cable system to a touch control also contains a battery.

 Sony SmartEyeGlass glasses

The SDK provided to developers today should enable them to prepare applications and usage scenarios of upstream a planned launch 2015 Developers should have access to early prototypes SmartEyeGlass glasses by the end of the current fiscal year, or March 2015.

                         
                             
                             
                         

                         
                     

Sony highlights applications like the wizard to make recipes, with the instructions on the screen, or assisted pedestrian navigation. In other cases, glasses can display useful data joggers or disseminate information from social networks. Note that unlike Google Glass (for now), the facial recognition will be in the game.

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