Google Glass

An immersive education summit is an event that takes place every year and is basically a conference, with many speakers where they discuss the impact that certain kinds of technology are having, and how they can be expanded. Topics covered feature all state of the art technologies such as wearable computers and 3D printing. Learn more about them at http://summit.immersiveeducation.org/

Here are two highlight screenshots which show in more detail what this conference is, and more specifically who and what universities are involved, because I could not remember them all. Some of my favorite topics discussed are Google Glass, 3D printing, personal robotics, and virtual currencies. The topic of this post will be Google Glass, which is something I have always wanted to try out, because they look incredible in demonstrations.

This is a poster photo advertising Google Glass. Google Glass is a pair of glasses that has a small, yet incredibly powerful computer built into them. The arm that extends out over the eye in the photo projects an image out in front of you, slightly above your line of sight, which you can control and interact with by using the white bar (which is a responsive touch pad) that runs from your eye almost back to your ear.

Some things that Google Glass can do are 1. take photos, which is much easier because the photo that is being captured is what you are actually seeing. 2. Connect to social media, for example, after taking a photo, you can share it to your social media accounts right from your pair of glasses. And 3. Voice recognition, at any time you can say "okay glass" then ask a question or speak a command, such as "share this picture to Facebook" and the action will be done for you. I think technology like this is fascinating. A brief tutorial of how to do things using Google Glass can be seen below.

This photo shows a good example of what a typical use of Google Glass would look like, and is captured with Google Glass (meaning it is what this person was seeing at that time). As we can see, the person has asked Glass to Google search how long is the Brooklyn Bridge, which is displayed in his line of vision without obscuring it, the next thing this person would have seen is an answer!





Google Glass is one of many things talked about in these conferences, yet in much more explicit detail of course. Again, more info can be found at http://summit.immersiveeducation.org/

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