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Top Features of Smart Glasses: See-what-I-see Communication

What are the main features of smart glasses that make them so attractive to enterprises? Real enterprise organizations – both large and small – are seeing real benefits and improvements from the adoption of smart eyewear among their workforces. You need only read the speaker lineup for next month’s EWTS East to appreciate that smart glasses and other wearables are alive, in use, and evolving at some of the world’s largest and most powerful companies, including General Electric, Walmart, BMW, and Boeing. In our newest four-part blog series, we shine the spotlight on four major features or capabilities of smart glass technology: Hands-free still image, video and audio capture (Read Top Features of Smart Glasses: Hands-free Documentation) Real-time sharing of wearer’s POV Hands-free, on-the-spot access to information Augmenting the real world In this post, we will focus on real-time sharing of the wearer’s point of view, a feature that makes smart glasses useful for see-what-I-see communication between, say, two colleagues separated by distance, a customer and a remote support technician, or a worker in the field and an office-based specialist or supervisor. Let’s look at a few use cases: Real-time sharing of wearer’s POV As you know, most smart glasses […]

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Top Features of Smart Glasses: Hands-free Documentation

Google Glass was no hit with consumers: We know this, and we’ve made our peace with it. But what Google Glass did accomplish was to introduce professionals – from surgeons to first responders to construction contractors – to the seemingly endless possibilities for smart glasses in the workplace. And smart glasses certainly have come a long way since the days when Glass failed to impress (and in some cases annoyed) the average consumer: The leading enterprise smart glass makers are on the second, third, and fourth generations of their hardware, while Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality headsets are finally hitting the market in a spectacular way. Lux Research aptly defined three major functions that smart glasses perform: 1) Accessing information; 2) Real-time communication; and 3) Documentation. In our newest blog series, we will touch on these three functions as we discuss four major features of smart glass technology, including the ability to augment reality offered by more immersive devices like the Microsoft HoloLens. The four main features of smart glasses are: Hands-free still image, video and audio recording (which lends itself to hands-free documentation) Real-time sharing of wearer’s POV (which lends itself to “see-what-I-see” communication) Hands-free, on-the-spot access to information […]

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Lee Company technicians use smart glasses to provide remote support

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Essert’s Remote Support System with Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses

See how enterprises can use Essert's remote support system with Vuzix's M100 Smart Glasses

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A World 1st in Rennes: A Surgeon Connected to Japan Via Google Glass

Google Glass™ became the surgeon’s eyes “teleported to Japan.” The device enabled him to film the operation himself while it was underway and talk to his colleagues, describing the stages in the operation and answering their questions. The private hospital in Saint-Grégoire on the outskirts of Rennes joined forces with two companies in Rennes (Eliga and AMA) to create a world’s first in Rennes on February 14 – the streaming, via Google Glass™, of a shoulder operation being carried out by Dr. Collin, orthopaedic surgeon at the hospital, watched live by his surgeon colleagues at Nagoya Hospital in Japan. They watched the operation not only as if they were in the operating room but also as if they themselves were operating on the patient. Google Glass™ became the surgeon’s eyes “teleported to Japan”. The device enabled him to film the operation himself while it was underway and talk to his colleagues, describing the stages in the operation and answering their questions. “Google Glass™ live surgery” is the result of a discussion on the need for interactivity in surgical training. This quite naturally took Dr. Philippe Collin to Eliga, a start-up in Rennes set up by Alain Papazoglou and Estelle Bagot, […]

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Worker Guidance with Smart Glasses and xMake at WS Kunststoff-Service

Use of Smart Glasses and Ubimax worker guidance application xMake at WS Kunststoff-Service GmbH

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Using Wearable Tech for Workplace Safety

As on-the-job injuries cost around $200 billion each year, it is no wonder that wearables are being tested to improve safety in a variety of workplaces, including oil fields, construction sites, coal mines, power plants, shipyards, and factories. Wearable tech has the potential to augment safety efforts in a range of industries, from mining and oil & gas to manufacturing, aviation, and logistics. Hands-free wearables can be employed to monitor workers’ vitals along with their exposure to harmful elements/chemicals and their proximity to danger zones. The technology can also heighten workers’ situational awareness by continuously collecting data on the jobsite itself, detecting such things as environmental conditions and the “health” of various equipment and machinery. Wearable devices can provide safety alerts and prompts to employees in the field, remind workers of context-specific safety procedures, and even enable an injured worker to reach out for help. Read on for descriptions of several wearable safety solutions in the workplace. Use Case: Matrix Medical Network; Location: United States; Device: the AlertGPS Solution In-home medical care providers hold one of the most important jobs in the nation. They ease the lives of patients and their families, nurture people back to health, and relieve some […]

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Space Exploration, Defense and Transportation Go Wearable

From a Canadian hotel resort to a British musical instrument retailer and now the U.S. Department of Defense; wearable technology is rapidly evolving to meet business needs around the world, creeping into some surprising sectors. In this post, we find out how wearable devices are making their way into the Singapore public transport system, the U.S. military, and even outer space. Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) A group of 200 Singapore commuters are currently trialing smart wristband payments for public transport services as well as for retail goods at establishments equipped with “contactless readers” capable of interacting with the bands. To realize the pilot scheme, the LTA teamed up with a number of corporations, including Sony, which provided the hardware for the project in the form of the Sony SG50 SmartBand, and mobile network operator Singtel. The wearable technology works like so: in order to pay for their transportation, participating commuters need only hold their wrists up to a fare card reader on the bus or at a transit station. When they need to “top-up” or refill the value stored in their smart bands, they hold their wrists up to a different device. The project, which will run until February […]

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Dawsons, Exel and Daimler Go Wearable

It seems as if new examples of wearable technology in the enterprise come to light every week now. In this post, we will take a look at three use cases, one each from the retail, logistics and automotive industries. Dawsons The Dawsons example is a testament to the game-changing potential of wearable tech in business, especially when it comes to customer service. Dawsons is a British musical instrument retailer that is utilizing smart glasses (plus AI technology) to revolutionize the online shopping experience. When a customer clicks Chat on Dawsons’ “online shop,” he is no longer connected to an anonymous, text-based support person but rather he is able to communicate with an in-store specialist wearing a pair of Epson smart glasses. In this case, the smart glasses act as the remote eyes and ears of the potential buyer. Say you’re considering purchasing a guitar. While browsing online, you could ask the Dawsons in-store specialist to try out a few instruments for you. You would be able to see and hear whatever the smart glasses-clad sales associate does in the physical store; and you would be able to talk to him and ask questions, all thanks to a one-way video link […]

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Salesforce Showcases Enterprise-Focused Apps for Apple Watch

Written by Special Guest Blogger Aditya Kaul, Research Director, Tractica On August 11, Salesforce showcased 20 new applications for the Apple Watch specifically targeted at the enterprise. The developers of these apps include BetterWorks, Alpine Metrics, CloudSense, Apttus, Bracket Labs, Fairsnail, Click Software, Footprints, InsideSales, Financial Force, Heywire, New Voice Media, RemedyForce, Point of Reference, Sage, Skedulo, Proximity Insights, ServiceMax, Vlocity, and Team Spirit. Salesforce has been active in the wearables space with its Salesforce Wear platform, which allows developers to build applications for a number of wearable devices that connect into the Salesforce1 mobile app platform. Salesforce has shown examples of apps on a range of devices, including Google Glass, Android Wear, Samsung Gear 2, Myo, Nymi, Pebble Watch, and Apple Watch. The key here has been to automate and simplify the backend plumbing to connect wearables to Salesforce’s platform. The applications vary from enabling inspections at oil rigs using Google Glass, to having doctors using a Myo Arm band to view patient records and X-rays, to having hotel guests use a Nymi band as their room key. For the Apple Watch, Salesforce has been pushing developers to create specific applications using a dedicated website targeted at third party […]

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Using Smart Glasses for Job Training and Education

As you know, smart glasses can do a lot in the enterprise: They can allow employees to access information via a visual scan or voice command; they can enable easy, hands-free recording or documentation of work environments, tasks, and events; and they can deliver alerts and other up-to-the-minute, task-oriented information right to the eyeline of a worker. In addition, smart glass technology plus augmented and virtual reality are currently being tested in a number of industries to support innovative, immersive training, both on and off the job. These novel takes on job training and education by the likes of Hewlett-Packard and Lee Company are proving not only highly effective but also tremendously time- and cost-saving. Gartner predicts smart glasses will have the most impact in heavy industry precisely because “the AR glasses enable on-the-job training of workers.” Yet HP and Lee Co. prove that applying smart glasses to job training extends well beyond heavy industry. Instructions and illustrations displayed in smart glasses can enable workers in any industry to perform tasks for which they don’t remember all the procedures, with the glasses serving as a kind of virtual assistant; or as an interactive, hands-free how-to manual. But the technology can […]

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HPE Visual Remote Guidance

Included in the HP Predictive Press Care service portfolio, HP Visual Remote Guidance for HP Inkjet Web Presses allows press operators to increase up-time and resolve press issues more quickly with Google Glass.

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