If you aren't already aware of the cutting-edge social video
streaming glasses, Epiphany Eyewear, being developed by Vergence Labs (
http://www.vergencelabs.com),
here's your chance to get in on the ground floor. Vergence Labs is
creating computer enabled eyewear -- video recording and video streaming
glasses with software that integrates with the mobile app ecosystem and
the social web. "Picture it as stylish glasses that will let you touch a
button on the frame, and stream your point of view to apps like
Instagram or SocialCam, then post your experience onto Facebook and
Twitter," explained Erick Miller, founder and CEO.
For these recent advancements, VMware and Nokia awarded
Vergence's Chief Science Officer and co-founder, Jon Rodriguez, two
coveted Technical Innovation awards at the Stanford University computer
science exhibition.
Read more.
Vuzix Corporation has released what it calls a Waveguide optics engine on its Vuzix M2000AR HMD that enables smart eyewear technology to fit into
standard glasses frames. The engine, developed by Noika, moves light within smart glasses. Vuzix notes that the engine is smaller and lighter than conventional prism-based optics used in competing smart devices. It also delivers a wide field of vision. It uses a 1.4mm thin "window" (operating
similar to a fiber optic) with a tiny input pupil that is expanded using
a hologram in front of the eye. Light is not bent through bulk material
as in conventional optics.
Its display has four times as many pixels as do Google Glasses, according to Quartz. The
technology was originally developed by Nokia and licensed to Vuzix.
Vuzix integrated it with its own waveguide technology and developed
other improvements for its release into Vuzix products. Read more.
