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No info on the HW, that's the interesting part. How did they solve battery life issues etc
by Zhenya 9y ago
No info on the HW, that's the interesting part. How did they solve battery life issues etc
- MBCook 9y agoEven when given to developers the chip was last-gen IIRC. If they took a modern processor with the same power (or possibly more) I'd assume they could lower the power draw by a fair bit. Did glass have cellular? Dropping that could do a lot too. It's a good question.
- Zhenya 9y agoGlass did not have cellular, just BT & WiFi iirc.
- kharms 9y agoIn an industrial setting they don't really need to solve that problem. Battery low? Swap out the glasses for another pair.
- spenczar5 9y agoI'm not sure that's true. One of the examples has a tech working at the top of a wind turbine. Maybe he's supposed to bring up a backup battery pack?
- euyyn 9y agoJust plug it to the wind turbine's output for a couple seconds :P
- soundwave106 9y agoYep. There's also external battery packs, which probably not a problem for some jobs. However, there were some other issues I encountered in previous (early) Google Glass development that I wonder if they have been resolved: - Google Glass devices were prone to overheating to the point of shutting down, so it was not possible to do anything terribly computationally intensive. - Support for more corporate oriented wifi protocols (eg LEAP) was marginal; the Glass even had trouble making an initial connection to a hidden SSIDs on a standard WPA2 network. - Barcode scanner support is based on camera image capture; unfortunately small barcodes were difficult to impossible to scan with the Glass as a result (both due to the need to position the code close to the camera, and the nature of the camera that made closeups of small barcodes very blurry).
- mgamache 9y agoThe battery is slightly larger on the new Glass, but the processor is also better (Intel based). So the operational time is appox the same with much improved performance.