Meet Alto Tech’s ‘Cool Glass,’ a vastly cheaper alternative to Google Glass - wilsonpecassoo

Not surprisingly, no one at the Alto Tech Booth at CES wanted to call its Cool Glass a knockoff of Google Glass.

Sure, it looks almost identical. The identify's nearly the same. But Alto Tech representatives said that it developed a customs duty fork of Android to power it, and that the applications information technology developed were proprietary. (There's an SDK for developers to tap into, too.)

Simply I've used Glass, and unless my memory deceives me, Cool Glass offers nearly the same receive at a divide of the price: $500, specifically, versus the $1,500 Google originally charged for Google Glass. Unfortunately, Cool Ice is being sold into the Chinese market—although companion representatives said they hoped to bring the device to the U.S. this Apr.

Alto Technical school showed how Cool Glass works as just a frame, allowing a exploiter to strip his or her own glasses (including sunglasses) inside the device. The like Google Glass, Cool Glass embeds its data inside a angular plastic prism that curls in strawma of your right eye, and can be pushed crawfish of the way. The interface thus essentially hovers over your visual field, protrusive a virtual screen about the sizing of a deck of card game maybe nine inches by from your eyeball. I father't know the resolution of the projected double, but it was crispen and elaborate, though with some somewhat wet-out colors.

Cool Glass top — Cool Glass includes consecrated camera and augmented reallity buttons.

Currently, Cold Glass can livestream, take still pictures, or record video from its enclosed 8-megapixel tv camera, pee-pee calls, read messages, provide navigation functions, and even provide some form of augmented reality, according to Alto Tech representatives.

Accompany representatives allowed me to try out the English-voice communication version of Cool Glass, and IT plant, to an extent: I was able to record video exploitation the television camera, and voyage through the interface. But Cool Chicken feed wasn't neighboring (it uses either Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to pull data to and from your phone) and augmented reality is presently only available in the Chinese edition, I was told.

Users voyage through the carte system away swiping forward and back (for right and left) onto the touchpad built into the right-handed frame of the glasses, tap to select, and past down to date back in a series of menus. Swiping felt easy and intuitive, although Cool Glass seemed to have an issue or two registering taps. There are likewise dedicated buttons for triggering the AR function and the camera, built into the top of the frame, plus a power clit.

Cool Glass charger case — A carrying type doubles as a battery charger.

For the $500 leverage price, you also receive a carrying case that doubles every bit a charging dock, complete with an extraneous USB port wine, presumably for downloading images or telecasting captured and stored on the device's 8GB of internal storage. It's not bright how long the stock stamp battery will sunset, nevertheless.

If Google ever so does release a consumer version of Glass, it leave almost for sure be priced at inferior than $1,000, especially at present that more and many VR devices are organism announced and shown to the public. But for right now, if you're interested in trying out Glass for yourself, and for a reasonable Price, you may have fair-minded a few months to wait.

(Editor in chief's Billet: When Glass primitively debuted, both Google and the media characterized it as an increased reality device—which is what I'm referring to in the video above. Since then, the term has become more connected with Microsoft's Hololens, and the layering of virtual objects on top of real-world, forceful objects. It's not quite clear what definition Alto Tech is victimization here.)

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