A developer edition of Sony’s augmented reality smart glasses will go on sale in ten countries next month, the tech giant has announced.<\/p>\n
Pre-orders for the SmartEyeglass, costing $840 (\u00a3620), are now being taken in the UK and Germany, with Japan and the US to follow shortly.<\/p>\n
The black-framed glasses are compatible with recent Android operating systems.<\/p>\n
Last month Google announced that it was withdrawing its smart glasses for redevelopment.<\/p>\n
Sony’s initial model will come with a software development kit to encourage people to design apps for it, the company said.<\/p>\n
The glasses, which weigh 77g, contain an accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, image and brightness sensors, 3-megapixel camera and a microphone.<\/p>\n
They also come with a controller, designed to be attached to clothing, which contains a speaker, touch sensor and the device’s battery.<\/p>\n
Text is displayed in front of the wearer in monochrome green.<\/p>\n
‘Intrusive’<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Apple chief executive Tim Cook has been open about his dislike of glasses as a wearable device.<\/p>\n “We always thought that glasses were not a smart move, from a point of view that people would not really want to wear them,” he told the New Yorker.<\/p>\n “They were intrusive, instead of pushing technology to the background, as we’ve always believed.”<\/p>\n Stuart Miles, founder of tech site Pocket-lint, said: “I think [Sony is] wasting their time, energy and effort.<\/p>\n “Google Glass obviously needed a complete rethink… I can’t see how something thick-rimmed and more invasive-looking than Google Glass is going to catch on.<\/p>\n “People are keen on wearables like fitness bands and watches, but they care about their faces. Wearing something on your head is a lot stronger than wearing something on your arm,” he added.<\/p>\n “The industry keeps pushing it but consumers just don’t want it.”<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A developer edition of Sony’s augmented reality smart glasses will go on sale in ten countries next month, the tech giant has announced. Pre-orders for the SmartEyeglass, costing $840 (\u00a3620), are now being taken in the UK and Germany, with Japan and the US to follow shortly. The black-framed glasses are compatible with recent Android […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-92392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}