“Maker of ‘smart glasses for the military’ comes with consumer version”

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Osterhout Design Group comes up with a smart pair of glasses the competition with, for example, Google Glass will need to accept. The company previously released all such wearable for professional use. The glasses may include images of the normal view and video recording.

During the Consumer Electronics Show from 6 to 9 January will be held in the smart glasses shown, as confirmed by Osterhout Design Group, a U.s. company. The glasses must be the center between Google Glass and virtual reality goggles like the Oculus Rift. So you can just use the glasses to look at, but it is also possible to project images, for example, to watch a movie. Because the movements of the wearer to be tracked can smart glasses be used for augmented reality applications.

According to the authors is the appearance based on the Wayfarer-sunglasses and uses the Vuforia technology, which Qualcomm developed, and is made for virtual reality and object recognition on mobile devices. For the operation, there is no link with a smartphone or other mobile device is needed: according to Osterhout Design Group smart glasses in terms of functionality equivalent to an Android tablet. This year the smart glasses come out, for a price of “less than 1000 dollars’. Compared with the versions for professional use, in which the company had already released the consumentenvariant lighter and smaller.

The ar glasses from Osterhout Design Group, which despite the name is not established by a Dutchman, among others, all used by the U.s. army: the company has won a number of contracts with the Us department of defense in the guard and now has thousands of its Android-based R-6 glasses delivered. For the glasses has the Osterhout Design Group, a private interface is being developed under the name ReticleOS.