Time to raise a Glass

• Autores: MacGregor Campbell
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2918, 2013, págs. 19-20
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Google Glass headset debuted in May last year at Google's annual developer conference, Google I/O, but it was only last month that designers and developers finally got their hands on the device. At the latest I/O, held in San Francisco last week, Google showed developers how to play around with Glass to come up with exciting new uses. Glass consists of a fingertip-sized transparent prism display that sits at the top right corner of a user's field of vision. This prism is attached to a body housing a camera, eye movement sensors, a touch-sensitive sidebar and a number of other sensors, including an accelerometer, gyroscope and compass. It has Wi-Fi and can be paired with a smartphone via Bluetooth to access things like GPS or data over a 3G or 4G connection. So far, the apps that come with Glass simply adapt familiar online activities, like emailing or taking pictures with a voice command. Other official apps come from third parties, like news headlines from The New York Times.