GlassUP: Alternative For Google Glass
Some days we have seen detail description on how and what is Google Glass. Google Glass is a wearable computer with a head-mounted display (HMD) that is developed by Google in the Project Glass research and development project. When this device was available in the market, users found it very innovating but few were not happy with the price.
But if you think you should have also tried it or felt like having it, then GlassUp is the new alternative. GlassUp is an Augmented Reality glasses that display messages from your smartphone. GlassUp eyeglasses display emails, text messages, directions, heartbeats, translations, or any other info selected by the relevant apps on your smartphone.
Related Post: How Google Glass Works
GlassUp is basically a second screen output for your devices (mobile, smartphones, etc). It’s like being up to date with everything (incoming e-mails, text messages, tweets, Facebook updates, and other messages) without having to check your smartphone continuously. Information is sent from your smartphone to your GlassUp simply via a Bluetooth connection. The message is shown for only a few instants, on the side of the field of view, in an unobtrusive manner.
It is worked via a bluetooth connection and a set of apps (Android, iOS, hopefully Windows), depending on the mobile platform and the message you want to receive, so you must have your mobile with you. If you want to reply to message, you need to open the phone and cannot be done by the glass.
What else GlassUP do?
Comparison with Google Glass:
Compared to Google Glass, GlassUp is more focused on SHOWING information, in a very utilitarian approach. Some other comparison as mention on indiegogo:
Related Post: Google Glass Specification
Specification:
If you are interested in this product, you can pledge for the product on Indiegogo. The glass is priced at $399, way cheaper when compared to Google Glass, but at the same time you get lesser options as well. You can pick one from Indiegogo for $299.
Cheers!!!
But if you think you should have also tried it or felt like having it, then GlassUp is the new alternative. GlassUp is an Augmented Reality glasses that display messages from your smartphone. GlassUp eyeglasses display emails, text messages, directions, heartbeats, translations, or any other info selected by the relevant apps on your smartphone.
Related Post: How Google Glass Works
GlassUp is basically a second screen output for your devices (mobile, smartphones, etc). It’s like being up to date with everything (incoming e-mails, text messages, tweets, Facebook updates, and other messages) without having to check your smartphone continuously. Information is sent from your smartphone to your GlassUp simply via a Bluetooth connection. The message is shown for only a few instants, on the side of the field of view, in an unobtrusive manner.
It is worked via a bluetooth connection and a set of apps (Android, iOS, hopefully Windows), depending on the mobile platform and the message you want to receive, so you must have your mobile with you. If you want to reply to message, you need to open the phone and cannot be done by the glass.
What else GlassUP do?
- Emails, text messages, Facebook updates, tweets, RSS, calendar events, incoming calls
- Breaking news, weather, stock exchange, sport results
- Real time feedback display for running, biking, sailing, action sports
- Turn by turn directions to riders (motorcycles, bikes,..)
- Aid for hearing impaired
- Translations display when talking in different languages
- Patients’ body data to a surgeon
- Instructions to workers in warehousing or maintenance
- Teleprompter for public speaking
- Subtitles at the movies (for hearing impaired and for different languages)
- Details about works of art at a museum
- Gaming
- Domotics, etc..
Compared to Google Glass, GlassUp is more focused on SHOWING information, in a very utilitarian approach. Some other comparison as mention on indiegogo:
- GlassUp is "receive only". No photos or videos involved, no privacy issues.
- The projection is Monochrome (currently green, but we may switch to amber).
- Longer battery life.
- GlassUp projects the information close to the center of vision, with less strain to the eye of the wearer.
- Google choose a very distinctive look for their product, GlassUp will look like a normal pair of eyeglasses.
- Google Glass is like seeing something in the rear-view mirror of a car, whereas GlassUp islike seeing it on the windscreen.
Specification:
- Weight: around 65 grams (tested on our first prototype)
- On board OS: Android
- Sensors: accelerometer, compass, ambient light sensor, precision altimeter, perhaps more (the GPS is already on your smartphone, so we don’t need it)
- Connectivity: Bluetooth LE
- Resolution: Optical system, made of a display and a set of lenses and mirrors. The resolution of the display is 320×240.
- Battery: One day of battery life recharge via mini-usb
- Lenses: Lenses will be slightly tinted
- Controls: A touch-pad, with the usual controls (tap, double tap, long press, swipe vertically and horizontally).
- Color combinations: The frame you see in the video is red on white, it’s one of the two versions we plan to sell – the other is green on black
If you are interested in this product, you can pledge for the product on Indiegogo. The glass is priced at $399, way cheaper when compared to Google Glass, but at the same time you get lesser options as well. You can pick one from Indiegogo for $299.
Cheers!!!
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