The Future of Smart glasses and its Benefits.
                     The Future of Smart glasses and 
its Benefits
Smart glasses
• Over the past few years, there has been increasing interest in 
smart glasses. Companies such as Google have released its 
Google Glass, which allows users to receive information similar 
to a smartphone, right in front of their eyes.
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Future
• While this type of technology might seem like a luxury for most 
people, the idea of restoring sight might have once seemed like 
science fiction, but thanks to smart glasses, this is now 
becoming reality.
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Smart glasses for the blind?
• According to the World Health Organization there are 285 
million visually impaired individuals worldwide. Smart glass 
technologies can help individuals to restore their vision.
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New technologies
• Companies such as eSight have engineered smart glasses for 
the visually impaired that use high-definition cameras to 
record and transmit footage in real-time to screens within the 
glasses located very close to the users’ eyes.
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Huge potential
• The potential for this technology is huge, and major tech players 
including Apple and Facebook are still committed to launching their 
own devices. Apple has acquired a start-up which makes lenses for 
AR glasses, and the company has been hiring augmented reality 
engineers.
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Uses
• Even though the consumer market still has much to grow, various 
use cases are being applied today. Visitors experiences are being 
enhanced in museums though AR guides. Theaters are relying on 
eyewear to provide instant subtitling to their guests.
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In the logistics sector
• While keeping their hands free and receiving directions and 
visual cues directly in their field of view, warehouse workers can 
easily locate, collect, and deliver items with ease. Smart glasses 
are also substituting handheld devices, scanners and paper.
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Challenges remain
• Smart glasses are a tricky concept to get right, needing to 
combine functionality with comfort, an attractive design, and 
seamless controls in order for people to feel comfortable using 
them in their day-to-day lives.
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Cost issues
• High-performing smart glasses tend to be bulky and stand at a 
price range that is still not convincing enough for day-to-day 
usage. Fashionable pieces, on the other hand, have to sacrifice 
performance to get a sleeker look and still tend to keep a higher 
price range.
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