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Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses Hands On! [CES 2014]

2014-01-14
this coverage of CES is brought to you by Toyota we're at CES 2014 in showstoppers I'm Darla kuvaev Android 30 I'm here with Anne Queen guzik's and he's just given us a pretty cool demonstration so what do you think is the long term plan for musics with this particular product you mentioned it is running on Android that's correct yes so we will continue to evolve this product but we also have several other products we're evolving around the same sort of things so this this will maintain as a monocular device I see well we also have a binocular device to eye device as well that we that we'll be announcing for these motors right now a lot of the consumers that you talk with don't have an idea of what they want to do so what's going to happen here and the way it's going to evolve is that the industry folks that we are working with people that work at those companies are going to see how the devices are used and they're gonna come home and they go you know what if I had an app that could do this I would get these for my home do you consider this particular product to be competitive to Google glass we had you know yes yes and that in that it does a few things differently yeah and because we're we've been around since 1997 we actually know how the technology will interact with the way people will use it so for instance one of the big differences is that we have a digital see-through box okay and as you just saw yeah you know it's very bright you can see everything on there there you can read it you can't do that a goonie if the Sun hits it the wrong way or if you're a surgeon with the bright lights looking down at your patient and also the patient data disappears your host I see so is the patient yeah yeah absolutely so that's why we've taken a lot of that expertise we have over the years and built this device with it yes some of the other differences is that we don't have to be connected to the cloud that's an option yeah we can run things locally here if we want to because again if you're a doctor you have HIPPA regulations that prevent you from having your data go outside to authorities or if you're a large company like Amazon you don't want Google to have your information no no so you want to make sure the device works in your environment and that you don't have to change your business dealings to do something so you've been doing business since 1997 and we have obviously sold quite a few these units is sustainable this is brand-new yes I know but in terms of how many augmented reality sort of units primarily we're looking at medical or military we actually in 1997 we started with the military yeah so we did a lot of night vision night vision stuff you know but in 2004 we started shipping consumer products and those were basically binocular 3d types of glasses augmented reality glasses theater ya know cinematic experience entertainment exactly so that was sort of things yes yes maybe you can give an Android authority one for free showstopper CES 2014 and once again thank you to Toyota for sponsoring our CES coverage
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