Recently, it has become increasingly common to hear about smart glasses. In this article, we will try to understand what they are, as well as how they can be applied in industry.
What Are Smart Glasses?
Smart glasses are wearable glasses that graphically display an information picture in addition to or instead of the surrounding world in which a person actually resides.
This technology allows you to increase productivity by eliminating the need for printed instructions. But this is not the only advantage of smart glasses. Next, we’ll look at their other advantages.
Types of Smart Glasses
There are several different models of smart glasses on the market: Google Glass, Microsoft HoloLens, Vuzix and others. Although the introduction of smart glasses into the industry is still at an early stage, this technology is developing rapidly. Almost every month in the news you can see something about a new field of application of such glasses.
Smart glasses can be divided into several types depending on how they interact with the environment:
Augmented Reality (AR) glasses. Additional virtual elements are superimposed on the image of the surrounding world. Typical examples are Google Glass and Vuzix glasses.
Mixed Reality Glasses (MR). Additional virtual elements are superimposed on the image of the surrounding world, while real and virtual elements can interact. Microsoft HoloLens glasses are an example.
Virtual Reality (VR). A fully virtual environment. A well–known example is Meta Quest glasses.
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Application Areas
Advantages of Smart Glasses
Case Study: AR Application for Google Glass
GRS has created a prototype augmented reality app for Google Glass glasses. The application allows you to follow step-by-step instructions, for example, to repair or configure equipment. Each step is accompanied by an illustration and a brief description. If necessary, the user can call a remote assistant and, using a video link, ask a question of interest, showing the location of the problem through the camera built into the glasses.
Conclusion
Most employees now confidently own modern devices such as smartphones and tablets. Smart glasses will be the next logical step to improve the productivity and accuracy of employees in enterprises. Although the implementation of this technology presents certain difficulties, over time, smart glasses will become an integral part of the industry as convenient and effective tools for performing a wide variety of tasks.
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