Google Glass

Modern Push

• The surge in consumer demand for high-quality multimedia entertainment 
• Profound impact on the network infrastructures and business models 
• Premium content delivery 
• Consumer demand for multimedia is exploding
• No longer confined to the home TV or home based Internet 

What has happened?

• Research suggests by 2014 video will become the dominant source 
• Desire for access to content anywhere, anytime and on any screen. 
• Today,more premium content than ever before is available on the Internet.
• A Successful Internet Media Delivery System 

Google Glass

• Google Glass is a type of wearable technology with an optical head-mounted display (OHMD).
•  It was developed by Google with the mission of producing a mass-market ubiquitous computer.
• Google Glass displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free format. 
• Wearers communicate with the Internet via natural language voice commands.
• Google started selling Google Glass in the USA on April 15, 2014 

Google Glass

• Originally $1,500 to acquire the Beta model
• In the summer of 2011, Google engineered a prototype that weighed 8 pounds 
• It is now lighter than the average pair of sunglasses
• Star Trek
• Specs / Breakdown

What can it do?

• Strava Run also Biking
• Navigation / compass
• GolfSight with SwingByte
• Send a Message
• LynxFit

What can it do?

• Word Lens
• Internet Searches
• Take Pictures and Videos
• Style / Sun glasses / 

A Successful Internet Media Delivery System Must Provide

•  Tools for the easy re-purposing of new content distribution over digital networks 
•  Robust, Distributed, Scalable, Secure, and Flexible “Architecture” for content distribution 
•  Client distribution supporting diverse data types 

A Strange new World

• Eye Strain
• Complications
• Augmented Reality?
• A direction that the world will head?
• Porno

What Does it Matter?

• Light Weight World
• Obsolete to Quickly?
• Military