Sony introduced rival Google Glasses

Sony Corporation of Japan has recently shown to the public his helmet virtual reality Project Morpheus. The device turned out quite interesting, reviews about the device, in general, positive.

Now Sony presented and their own glasses , until that version for developers. Points are called SmartEyeglass, this device has some differences from Google Glass.

First of all, there is a mini-projector, which covers, at least a little, the field of view of the user. There are two display SmartEyeglass lenses, transparent in the ordinary state is 100%. When using points as wearable gadget transparency of the image is 15%.

Resolution "display" is 419 * 138 pixels, the image is in color, however, only 8 bits, a monochrome green background.

Developers also found 3MP camera, with which you can get VGA-image, there are sensors: accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, light detector. In glasses built-in microphones, plus communication modules 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0.

SmartEyeglass can be connected to any mobile device based on Android 4.1 or later.

Manage unusual, compared with the same Google Glasses: the wired controller with built-in battery, speakers, buttons and sensor.

With regard to the ecosystem of applications, the developer presented emulator software environment SmartEyeglass, with the ability to test their applications.



Source: habrahabr.ru/post/237833/