Google Glass Enterprise Edition Officially Unveiled, Now Available to More Firms

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So Google began to shift their focus on making Google Glass a consumer product and more of an enterprise device.

Now Google is focusing on a different audience for its smartglasses: workers.

The fate of Glass had been unclear in recent years. While it’s not clear what standby times the new version provides, if it is to be used in the workplace, I would expect it is at least eight hours of operation. It now has an 8 megapixel camera, up from 5 megapixels.

The camera button also functions as a release switch to remove the “Glass Pod”, which is the electronic part of the glasses, from the glasses frames. This has led to a reduction in errors in their work as well. Google has also taken help of developers to build a slew of apps to take advantage of some of Glass’s most interesting features.

Indianapolis-based Hodei Technology has equipped Google Glass Enterprise with its HCview Gemini solution to improve patient access in the remote northern communities of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Then Fadell left Google previous year.

Two years after killing off the Google Glass Explorer Edition, the firm has revealed it’s quietly resurrected its smart glasses, this time geared toward workers. But as of today, July 18, any business that wants to introduce Glass, can communicate with Google’s partners. The development of the Enterprise Edition was first reported in December 2015, thanks to a Google FCC filing.

German company Ubimax, which makes software for manufacturing and logistics workers, said that it would charge around £1,335 per unit on top of its own fees.

At the time, many thought Glass was dead. DHL after the successful tests announced that it plans to implement them in 2000 depots worldwide.

But now, Google Glass’s support site says the XE23 MyGlass update, the first since late 2014, enables the latest version of the headset to be paired with Bluetooth input devices, including keyboards and mice. Product Manager Jay Kothari says it is no longer an experiment and is in full production with their network of partners. Mechanics at GE, for instance, don’t need to stop their work to go look at a manual for a specific process because Google Glass can show it on the heads-up display in their line of sight. Wired reporter Steven Levy describes seeing the device in use at agriculture equipment manufacturer Agco. Google glasses also help in AGCO training, reducing his term from 10 to 3 days. The company “got more than a little off track”.