A Reason to Take Google Glass Seriously
Google Glass critics may now have a reason to be less skeptical.
Wearable Intelligence, a San Francisco-based startup, has 1 an enterprise software that uses Google"s wearable computer glasses to improve the day-to-day 2 of service workers.
Medical professionals, for example, can use Google Glass to 3 a patient"s medical history without referencing traditional charts on a computer, and so diagnose symptoms more 4 . Or a construction worker could work without ever 5 for a building map.
"It"s for the 90% of workers who don"t work behind a computer and use their hands a lot," explains Erlich, a 6 Google product manager. So far, about ten organizations have been testing Wearable Intelligence"s software with Glass.
Wearable Intelligence has 7 over $1 million in seed funding. The startup will spend the rest of 2014 adding new 8 —say, automatic sign-off after a few hours—and expanding into other industries, the company says.
As Erlich notes, Glass isn"t a final product—the consumer version is expected later in 2014, and wearable technology remains a nascent (新兴的) market. Despite the skeptics, Glass will 9 have a wide variety of applications in the future, says Erlich. "It may take some 10 amount of time, but it will happen."
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