Google Glass displays information in a smartphone like hands
free format that easily connects with the Internet through regular language
voice commands.
FEATURES
|
Feature
|
Description
|
|
Hands-free 1st person photos & videos
|
Takes photos & videos-hands free using the headset
that inevitably records the footage, when a user simply says - "Ok
Glass, record a video".
|
|
Google Search
Results in your eyes directly
|
A user can solely
ask Google Glass information about everything.
|
|
Easy and
turn-by-turn Directions
|
Get instructions
right in front of your face with the Google headsets that tell which route a
user needs to take.
|
|
Voice Translations
|
It gets easy to tour
in a new country & find any hotel or brasseries, as Google Glass can
translate their language so that a user does not face any problem.
|
|
Voice Dictation
& Gesture Control
|
Reply to any email
or edit any message before sending via voice dictation or turning the screen
and managing the device using eyes.
|
|
3rd Party
app-Integration
|
As per NY Times,
Evernote, Path and Skitch would be amalgamating with Google Glass. Hence it
will comprise all information related to news, photos, and headlines and get
delivered in the eyewear as a notification.
|
|
Virtual Reminders
|
Set a reminder
using a visual feature with Google Glass - View an object and tell
"Remind me to." and the headset will comrade that object with a
photo of the allocated task.
|
 |
| Google Glass |
GOOGLE GLASS WORKING
MECHANISM
A Google Glass constitutes a CPU, GPS, speakers, microphone,
battery etc. that is added to a small projector and a prism that transmits the
light on the user's retina. Each of the components is placed inside a frame in
a consistent manner. It requires a good mobile broadband signal, to make the
device feel light as most of the administering is done in cloud (like it does
with Apple’s Siri).
SCOPE OF GOOGLE GLASS IN HEALTHCARE
Meaningful Use for Hospitals - It is quite cumbrous
for the hospitals units to dose bar code for every medicine, as they need to
know who is the patient sitting in the room, his health problems and then his prescriptions.
EMR should include an assistive technology that confirms that the right
medication is available to the right patient at a given time. With help of a
Google glass, it becomes easy for a nurse to recognize the patient via Wi-Fi
geo location that also helps her to scroll through the medication picture and specify
whether they were dispensed before.
Clinical Certification - Google Glass helps to
present the multifarious clinical documentation with a real time video of the
patient meeting, taken from the vantage point of the clinician's Google Glass.
Every audio/visual prompt that the clinician sees and hears will be realistically
documented.
Emergency Department Dashboards - Google glass assists
the physicians working in a high pressure, fast paced environment to quickly
access information, filter relevant information and make evidence-based conclusions
using visual signals, vital signs, triage details, and treatment certification.
Alerts and Reminders - Google Glass presents those
events and issues, which are most grave, requiring action today (alerts) and
those issues that are generally good for the wellness of the patient
(reminders). Having the benefit of alerts and reminders allows a clinician to
get done with what is most important.
Judgment Support
- A clinician can retort to a cardiac arrest using Google glass to regain the
suitable choice support for the patient in question and visually sees a
decision tree that incorporates ideal doses of medications, the EKG of the
patient and vital signs.
SEGMENTS THAT CAN
GAUGE GOOGLE GLASS
Business Industry - Business apps that are focused on
interaction and association could leverage the Glass API to understand all kinds
of efficiency augmenting use-cases and applications.
Education Industry - People use YouTube lessons to understand
about new things, which has made it clear that education is not just restricted
to the classrooms. With Google Glass, it would be possible to record tutorials
in any domain like fixing a car engine or machinery parts, or in constrained
areas where only the physician and its staff is permitted.
Health Monitor Interface - It is easy to track a
user's undertaking with Glass' built-in GPS chip. It can combine external
health tracking monitor or other healthcare apps and exhibit, track or log in a
user's - pace, speed, heart rate & running period for any use - as in case
if a user is running a marathon.
Video Conferencing Substitute - Most of the people
today use Google Hangout in order to deal with any sessions or formal chats,
but still a user has to sit in front of a laptop in order to use it. But with
Google Glass, it is practical to conduct meetings flawlessly. This would be a
better substitute for those corporations that have lots of meetings on a consistent
basis and can spend a budget on virtual conference rooms.
Corporate Meetings – Google Glass is a great alternate
for decision makers who are always on the move and wants a large audience to connect
with. Group meetings can be done irrespective of where everyone is.
GOOGLE GLASS: BEST PRACTICES
Confirm that the glassware created is user-friendly by trying
it on an actual device.
Do not use too many notifications that can annoy the users.
The user should be provided with suitable controls, such
that they can interrelate with Google Glass as and when wanted & ignore it
when they don’t want.
If a user slips a timeline item from the service, it should
not worsen their experience.
Make sure that the result exhibited is pertinent and novel.
There should be a real time notification system that notifies
glassware about certain events.
Avoid user shocking with sudden functionality.
Create well-formatted, reasonable and legible timeline
cards, as it is the core way of users interacting with the content on Glass.
The timeline cards can be designed in 3 ways: -
·
Text
- Text is the easiest form to create stunning and readable cards on Glass. A
text can be used if the content that is being displayed contains mainly of
text; or if a user wants to choose how to present the content to the user and
if a user wants the content to remain stable & up to date.
·
Glass
HTML templates - This HTML markup is appropriate if a user needs to send organized
content to a user's timeline or control over formatting. An HTML template is most viable if a user
wants to show structured content such as lists or tables or wants a greater
flexibility in designing the content.
·
Displaying
user customized HTML - If a user wants to use a template that is not just resumed
to Glass HTML template, he can do so by creating his own tailored pattern, as
it helps him to control how the content is rendered; no doubt, he needs to make
sure that it has to be user-friendly.
If a user wants to attach photos/videos, he can do so , but
the photos or videos will appear behind
the text associated, only with the difference, that the text would disappear
when a video is played.
Optimal Statistics: -
Send full screen images and video at a 16x9 aspect ratio.
Target a 640x360 pixel resolution.
Always identify both the height and width of an image. This averts
placing reflows around an image as cards render. It also permits Glass to present
a well-formatted error message if the image is not accessible.
Keep the period of video clips between 10 and 20 seconds.
Glass is a device devised for rapid data consumption; so long videos are
usually not suitable for users to ingest.
A user should bundle or paginate content on timeline cards
to save space & group similar information. This feature works well with - a
thread of emails or short messages, related articles added all at once, a list
of key events and score updates for an ongoing sports game. But bundle would
not be suitable for - all content from your service, many headlines sent to
Glass over the course of a day and several pages of a long article.
The menu card devised should be: -
q If
you specify an icon, use a 50x50 pixel image.
q Limit
display names to a few words if possible.
q Use
the default icon and display name for built-in menu items unless you are using
the menu item for something very different.
Deliver a "Welcome" card to the Glass device after
a user approves your Glassware. This lets your users know that setup was
successful.
Deliver content as it happens, especially if you're generating
an audio notification.
Sometimes it's beneficial to deliver content in digest form.
If you're sending a digest, it's best to send it mutely.
Contacts appear in full screen, so use a 640 x 360 pixel
icon.
Tag content that was created and shared with Glass so that receivers
know the source of the content.
Add "Sent through Glass" when classification is
not needed. This is often the case for emails.
Glass™ always has a trademark symbol the first time or the
most protuberant time it appears in a creative.
Glass is always capitalized and is never plural or
possessive.
Glass is never part of the name of your business, Glassware,
other products. Instead, use "for Glass." If you use "for
Glass" in conjunction with a logo, "for Glass" must be a smaller
size than the rest of the logo.
You can use Glass as a descriptor, as long as it is followed
by a proper, generic term.
Ensure you and your Glassware obey to the Terms of Service
and Developer Policies documents.
Submit your Glassware for analysis by Google team.
Google team will email the user, feedback and next steps explicit
to the Glassware.
Ensure your Glassware passes the Launch Checklist.
Submitting Glassware that already passes the checklist accelerates the review
process.
Screen aspect ratio -16x9
Screen resolution - 640 x 360 pixels
Share contact icon size - 640 x 360 pixels
Menu option icon size - 50 x 50 pixels
Supported media format - Container: MP4
Video: H.264 baseline and H.263 baseline
Audio: AAC and MP3
Google Glass:
Limitations
The costs for the
glasses are very extreme for an average consumer ($1500-$3000). In April 2012,
Google confirmed that the glasses when available to the public will cost
between $250-$600.
A Smartphone can
drive apps, can be used for gaming reasons, have distinctive variations, huge variety
of reasonable price and much more tractability than this Glass.
Those people who
already have some concerns with their eyes and wear glasses in their daily
routine cannot use Google Glass.
Google Glass cannot
be used while driving, as the picture, video or data will be in front of the
eyes of the user, which can disturb them.
Recording video on
the headset for a longer time can drain its battery in half an hour.
The speaker, which transfers
sound through the skull to permit for ambient noise, can be tough to hear in
any situation other than a silent room.
Confidentiality
issues are a big worry as a person sitting in a restaurant or park wearing
Glass, can take anyone's photos or videos without that person's approval.
Glass informs of inward
messages by making a “ding” sound through bone transmission, then pouring the
notification directly into your right eye, which can be quite frustrating for a
user & destroy Glass experience.
The basic frame for
Glass is a thin, flexible titanium piece of metal upon which the plastic and
nose-bridge parts are joined, which gets easily broken, especially in the comprised
Glass pouch.
