Google Glass Contact Lens? May Also Assist The Blind

Tech startup building facial-expression recognition software for Google Glass

Daily Caller - A San Diego-based tech startup announced Thursday its next round of funding will put emotion-reading software in wearable tech like Google Glass, which will accurately track and measure human sentiments through its onboard camera.

Emotient has raised $8 million total for its research and development since 2012, with $6 million alone going to wearable tech, where the company hopes to eventually become the main emotion analysis engine for ”any connected device with a camera.”

“We believe our technology is differentiated in its ability to deliver sentiment and emotional insights in real-time and in its accuracy in uncontrolled environments, such as a crowded store,” Emotient spokeswoman Vikki Herrera told TechCrunch.

The company’s first “glassware” app will be marketed to the retail sector, and allow sales employees wearing Glass to gauge customers’ emotional responses to sales pitches and techniques in real-time. The app will also provide feedback to help customize conversational responses to individual customers, all of which can be used for training or active assistance in the field.   Read More

Google Glass is being used in operating rooms

AsiaNews.it - A gastroenterologist performs laparoscopic gastrointestinal surgery and hernia repair in Chennai. The glass could prove useful in India's remote areas so that rural doctors can be 'monitored and tech-assisted'.


Chennai (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Dr J S Rajkumar became the third doctor in the world to use Google Glass in two surgeries. A gastroenterologist and chief surgeon at Lifeline Rigid Hospital, Dr Rajkumar used the augmented reality glass in an upper gastro-intestinal laparoscopy procedure on a 45-year-old man and a hernia repair on a 42-year-old woman. Google glass was used only twice before, in the United States.

Google Glass is a wearable computer that works like a hands-free smartphone, moving with commands from the users eyes and head movements.

The glass has proved useful in the operating room for its ability to capture and transmit in real time what surgeons are doing, giving medical students an opportunity to learn "through" the eyes of their teacher.   More

Everything You Need to Know About Google Glass

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Funny looking? Sure. But Glass may just be a glimpse of things to come.

Google Glass means a lot of different things to many people. For some, the futuristic-looking headwear is the unavoidable next step for personal computing; a look into how technology will someday seamlessly integrate into our daily lives. And for others, Google Glass may appear like a concept without practical application, another idea like the Segway. Sure, wearing a computer on your face sounds cool, but who wants to wear it in public?

No matter which side of the issue you hold as truth, there's no denying Google Glass has the chance to change the way the world thinks about communication. But what exactly is Google Glass? What do we know so far, and where might that aluminum strip and nose-bridge take us?

What's Inside Google Glass?

Essentially, Glass' main priority is to move the interactions we've grown accustom to with our smartphones and tablets to the hands-free convenience of a pair of glasses. An Android-powered head-mounted display resides just above the right eye, producing a small heads-up display image with information like travel directions and video messaging, all accessible by Siri-like voice commands. A 720p camera is embedded in the front of the device, allowing the wearer to take pictures or perhaps even stream live video.

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