It’s been over a year and a half of the birth of Google
Glass, but there is still no such app which could make it wearable and could
attract people to buy this expensive cum unfashionable glass. Looking past
fashion concerns, MIT Technology Review has rounded up some of the most
interesting apps making their way to Glass in order to find out whether or not
Google’s wearable hardware has some real market potential after all.
The first app is the Moment Camera, an automatic pro
camera that captures footage throughout the day without any user input. It
takes advantage of Glass’s 5 mega pixel camera. The app takes pictures in every
few seconds when it detects the presence of face. It uses Glass’s gyroscope,
accelerometer and compass to figure out the most perfect time to click a shot,
and later uploads the photos to a remote server and sort outs the ones it
believes are the best.
Second app is Captioning on Glass, developed by Georgia
Tech professor Thad Starner, who is Google glass’s technical lead. It is a
companion app for Android devices. It will transcribe the words that someone
speaks into a smart phone onto the Glass display of someone with impaired
hearing.
Finally, Quest Visual is looking to update its
translation app, Word Lens, to make use of the smart glasses. With the help of
Word Lens app on iOS and Android, users will be able to hold their phones up to
signs and see an immediate translation of the printed text. Transferring the
app to Google Glass will cut out the need for middleman, allowing users to
simply say, “OK Google Glass, translate it,” and the translation will appear on
the display.
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These three apps are fascinating looks at the unique
capabilities of wearable tech, but until Google Glass won’t be publicly
released, potential buyers won’t have the chance to see them in action. The
fact that prospective apps for Google Glass are already being developed is a
good sign for the future of the product.
Although Glass looks different from so many of the cell
phones, laptops and
tablets, developers say they still struggle with the familiar problem: to
figure out how to make apps battery-efficient. The Google’s Glass specification
sheet specifies that you will get “one day of typical use” out of Glass, and
that features like video calls and recording videos will require more battery
backup. This means that apps that rely on a number of Glass’s functions can
quickly run out of power, and it can be a tricky issue to fix.
Google Glass is still striving for some hit apps but
still not hitting the chord.
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This eyewear’s price tag is too high and there won't be
enough apps or useful functions to make the wearable tech worth the cost of
$1,500 for the general public. But in the long term with increased competition
from rivals, Google Glass would be a big deal by 2020, but for now it is doomed
if it is dreaming to compete with Apple's iWatch.
Author : Iman Majeed
Source : MIT
TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
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