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Samsung copying Google Glass name?

I spy a copy cat: Samsung is making Galaxy Glass -- which sounds a lot like Google Glass. Really, Samsung? You can’t even think of a new word?

According to the Korean Times, Galaxy Glass will connect to a smartphone and allow its wearer to make calls and listen to music. Not to be outdone, Google just revealed new gear for its Glass product: new frames, prescription glasses and sunglasses for the Internet-connected eyewear.

Take that, Galaxy Glass.


Samsung copying Google Glass name? | Fox News
 
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Google is hoping to make its internet-connected eyewear more stylish as part of a partnership with the makers of Ray-Ban and Oakley frames.

The alliance with Italian eyewear company Luxottica Group, announced on Monday, represents Google's latest attempt to make wearable technology look less geeky as it tries to develop new ways to ensure people can stay connected to the internet wherever they go. Last week, Google disclosed that fashion accessory maker Fossil Group is working on an internet-connected wristwatch that runs Google's Android software for mobile devices.

Luxottica will develop frames equipped with Google Glass, a computing device that includes a thumbnail-sized screen above the wearer's right eye to view internet content. The $1,500 gadget also includes a camera that can take hands-free pictures and video, a feature that has raised privacy concerns.

Google so far has only sold Glass to a select group of test subjects known as 'Explorers', who have frequently been mocked for wearing a piece of futuristic eyewear that looks better-suited for cyborgs than for humans.

Luxottica is expected to help broaden Glass's appeal. Google is also planning to tap into the more than 5,000 stores that Luxottica runs in the US to help sell Glass once the device is released on the general market.

Google still hasn't spelled out when Glass will be broadly available, although the Mountain View, California, company is still aiming for later this year.

More than 10,000 people have bought Glass as part of the Explorer programme.

In another move to make Glass more practical, Google in January unveiled four frame styles that could also be outfitted with prescription lenses. Those frames cost an additional $225.

The prices for Luxottica's line-up of Google Glass products won't be announced until they are closer to going on sale. Besides Ray-Ban and Oakley, Luxottica's other brands include Vogue-Eyewear, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Alain Mikli and Arnette.


Google Glass set to go stylish with Ray-Ban deal - The Times of India
 
The most expected google glass has started selling it at an price of 1500dollars ie Rs.90000 !!!
 
I think we shud wait for a while... dis technology is entirely new, hence d high cost.

Gradually, as competetion heats up... prices will come down. :win

Ill buy, when it comes down to rs. 30000 :hehe :shy
 
Yugendran21 said:
The most expected google glass has started selling it at an price of 1500dollars ie Rs.90000 !!!

Google glass is not ready
That $1500 price was just a promotional event on April 15th 2014 where google had allowed google glass for any us citizen to have the google glass for a day


 
$1,500 Google Glass 'made with just $80 in parts'

Google's $1,500 wearable computer is made from parts costing just $79.78, according to technical experts

Anyone wanting to buy into the future of wearable computing currently faces a steep bill. Buying a Glass device alone will cost $1,500 (£889), and they come without the ability to hold lenses, meaning that those who need a prescription will have to fork out an extra $225 for different frames.

Customers will also need to get their own prescription lenses fitted at an optician, as these accessory frames ship with clear lenses. This takes the total cost to $1,725, plus the optician's charge.

But the device appears to cost Google far less to manufacture. An early estimate by experts at teardown.com who bought a Google Glass to dismantle puts the bill of parts at around $79.78 (£47.28).
The most expensive component is the processor, a chip from Texas Instruments, which costs around $13.96. Other items such as the battery cost as little as $1.14.



Inside the device is 16GB of storage space for apps, photographs and videos, thought to cost $8.18, and 1GB of RAM, costing $4.68. The team hope to release a more detailed and definitive breakdown of costs soon.
But the figures do not tell the whole story. Not included in that total is the expense of designing Glass and the research and development investment that made building it possible. Nor is shipping, marketing or technical support factored in.

Glass was created by Google X, the search giant's experimental division which is currently working on driverless cars. In 2011 a protoype Glass weighed around 3.6kg, but it is now so small and light that it can be worn like a normal pair of sunglasses.

The first products were offered to selected testers in April 2013, but these "Explorers" still had to buy their own devices for $1,500. It is thought that a consumer version will launch later this year at a significantly reduced cost.

Google is now offering the choice of prescription lenses and clip-on sunglasses for Google Glass. These are the new Google Glass "Classic" sunglass frames in "charcoal" colour.


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Coming, money transfer via Google Glass!


You just need a few gestures and a voice command.

According to the TechCrunch website, Google is planning to debut Google Wallet on Google Glass.

If this is true, as reports say internal testings are one, you can make mobile payments from within the Wallet app by simply saying “send money”.

Google would charge a 2.9 percent fee for the transactions, the website added.

Google has worked to revamp Wallet over the past couple of years.

The eyewear device was recently available for one-day online sale. The Glass is set for a debut later this year.



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