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Vuzix Google Glass competitor finally works — CES 2015

2015-01-07
all right I'm 99% sure I came from over here so it's been popper here at CES 2015 and I'm hanging out at the music's music music spewed wearing what appears to be Google glass but is actually the m100 that's right Synnex is a ten-year-old company they used to make immersive like kind of VR style eyewear then they did stuff for doctors they've done stuff in the military and now they're going into sort of the prosumer area hoping to make this for the average person yep the average person and actually getting into industries as well this is a lot of industrial applications so tell me what I would use this for out on the street as an average person or what I might use it for if I was like a company trying to you know by an average person you might want to get directions to somewhere and just have it tell you where you're going give you map directions or you might like the stream video showing you know what what you're looking at or tick ticking pictures storing them you can put an extra memory in here as well okay so I can take video of what I'm looking at and store that I could take a photo using like a voice command yep and you pretty much can load almost any Android app right on the device itself okay I'm here with Todd Ferguson who does a tech support for the view six tell us a little bit about how people are actually using this out in the field and some of the stuff you deal with on a daily basis sure probably the primary focus when we designed it was for an industrial application we wanted it to be a tool for a jobsite so two of the greatest things that we are doing is warehouse picking and field tech service the display in the camera combined is gonna put an arrow down on the floor it's going to guide you around to the pallet you need to highlight the box say I need one of these to pick up the box you hold it in front of the device you scan the qr-code inventory management software is updated in real-time they'll tell you where high voltage is don't touch it it'll tell you how to de-energize the panel you need to work on it gives you step-by-step instructions and in both situations you've got the opportunity to do live video conferencing with a supervisor if you run into this do you feel like this is something you would wear as a consumer yeah as a consumer it is a little bit you know the market is still accepting at the consumer market is still kind of learning where wearable technology is cool right I was visiting New York City a few months ago I could have had this on walking down Broadway and had menus popping up as I went by every every restaurant previews when I go by movie theaters with that yeah I think the consumers are gonna start buying into it would you wear this around all right it's been popular here at CES with the b6m 100 Karen tell what to do subscribe to their YouTube channel the virgin
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