Google will facilitate the work of the new “smart glasses”

Unique gadget will soon appear on the stalls of specialist shops.

The new version of augmented reality glasses Google Glass hits the market utilities for industrial companies. Exlorer Edition was presented in January 2015. Google has developed a new modification of points especially for the workers.

A special version of “smart” glasses came into General Electric, Boeing, DHL, Volkswagen. They began to use hundreds of Glass Exlorer Edition on workstations for testing only. Now plan full-scale implementation of “augmented reality” in the process of industrial production.

Google started working on project Glass at Work in April 2014, which was separate from the consumer version of the glasses product. A small team worked on the entreprise version of under the wing of Google X labs (now a separate unit of the holding Alphabet).

Released in January 2015 Enterprise Edition has an improved Wi-Fi module and CPU. The new battery provides 8 hours of continuous operation to allow the employee to work a shift without recharging. Instead of the camera at 5 MP in Exlorer Edition, the new model has a sensor resolution of 8 megapixels.

All the electronics were placed in a removable module Glass Pod that allowed you to connect it to the protective production points. To notify others on the work of the chamber to the Glass added a red led.

The team of Glass at Work has also revised the model of distribution of the product. Enterprise Edition is not sold directly to the end user — the Corporation, through a network of over 30 partners. Latest develop of points necessary for customers specialized software, and then sell in the package.

For more than two years, partners and corporations-customers had to keep using the new version of Glass. But as of today, July 18, any business that wants to introduce Glass, can communicate with Google’s partners.

One of the companies ispolla Enterprise Edition, the glasses cost $1 300 $1 500. The price of the device may vary depending on the software, which are developed by partners under the needs of the company.

During the closed sales Enterprise Editions, test projects with them I was able to spend more than 50 companies, including DHL, General Electric, VolksWagen, The Boeing Company, AGCO, Dignity Health and others. GE, which was one of the first test Glass, reported that the use of glasses warehouse employees reduced the search time detail by 46%. DHL after the successful tests announced that it plans to implement them in 2000 depots worldwide.

“This is not an experiment. — says project Manager Jay Kothari Glass. — This was an experiment three years ago. Now we are in production with our customers and partners.”

After implementing one of the stages of production of the aviation division GE, 85% of the workers reported that the system reduces the probability of error. In AGCO manufactures agricultural equipment, announced that they had several times to verify the results of the test Glass, because productivity was “too high”. Google glasses also help in AGCO training, reducing his term from 10 to 3 days. Now the manufacturer a little more than 100 Glass, but within 18 months he will have another 1 500.

Recall, your glasses and the company Snap. But they can only do photos, videos, and to protect from the sun. However, and are 10 times less.

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