The Google Goggles look to the future ... and to the iPhone - TF1

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the United States, it is increasingly difficult to miss Google Glass … These glasses are meant as Google prepares to be constantly before your eyes the information that is useful to you. No need to look down on your smartphone or even take you to seek information on internetou shoot: Google Glass obey your word and your eyes. To get an idea of ??what they promise, Google has set up a very public site that sums it all on video.

Most often it is for glasses by voice uttering the magic words “Glass OK” to warn an order by voice command will follow. So it goes something like this: “Ok Glass, take a picture”, “Ok Glass, recording video”, “OK Glass, internet search of tiger images”, if you want to draw a model example .. . In short videos, Google also points to the advantage of these glasses for all who want to want to share moments with friends: equestrian competitions, looping roller coaster or plane, nothing shall escape them. If you call with Google Hangout, a home version of Skype, they can watch live and subjective view your adventures video on their computer.

all started with a good idea

These glasses are not yet out on the market but in Silicon Valley and the “geekosphère” websites and blog dedicated to new technologies, it has become impossible to escape. In recent weeks, hundreds of thousands of articles and blog are devoted. It all started with a good idea to Google. The Web giant may well have completed a working version of his glasses equipped with a camera, a microphone and able to connect to the Internet via WiFi or Bluetooth, it is not yet able to distribute these promising glasses at more. Never mind, Google has decided to make the situation an opportunity for its research and marketing. The American group started sending his glasses prototypes 1,500 volunteers picked after selection on the social networks Twitter and Google +.
The “Explorer” like Google baptized them, began to receive their versions glasses, two weeks ago. Already addicted to the most in-between, they will leave more. Better than that, they started to use glasses and become ambassadors of the product. One of them, a young physics professor, supported by Google, for example, shares his live tour of the particle accelerator at CERN in Switzerland to a class of Michigan and now a blog devoted exclusively to the education through
Glass.
The blink of an eye takes a photo

Very invested, literally and figuratively in his glasses, Google is already preparing the future. It plans to open its interface to developers. As with phone apps that each company can create, it will be possible to develop new applications to enhance the Glass. Among the first creations of developers, an implementation called Winky and can take pictures by simply blinking.

Google also plans to play the phone side opening. To use SMS features readings or GPS guidance, it is necessary to bind his glasses to a phone, Android wireless for now, Google’s system used mainly by Samsung. But according to the U.S. site Techcrunch, Google will soon make its glasses compatible with the iPhone.

Google, which announced the sale of its futuristic glasses for 2013, asked a week ago its customers to be patient. “It is still very early. Google made many tests on the beta until we are good,” has tempered the Executive Director Eric Schmidt. They finally released in 2014.