Google’s ‘Glass at Work’ project has opened up to developers with five new partners on board, working on building work-related applications that could interest businesses to bring the upcoming augmented reality eyewear into their operations.
The first five Glass at Work development partners—APX, Augmedix, CrowdOptic, GuidiGo and Wearable Intelligence—were announced June 16 in a post on the Google Glass Google+ page.
“We’ve been searching for developers who are creating Glassware to help businesses reach their goals,” the post states. “We heard from hundreds of enterprise developers and today we’re excited to announce our first round of Glass at Work Certified Partners.”
The five partners are described below:
• APX Labs is the maker of the Skylight app for Glass, which provides workers with hands-free, real-time access to enterprise data and the expertise they need to do their job, according to the post.
• Augmedix offers a service for doctors that allows them to spend less time interacting with electronic health records so they can spend more time with patients.
• CrowdOptic’s app recognizes worthwhile broadcast events from mobile and wearable devices and provides that content for reuse by businesses and applications.
• GuidiGo is working to “inspire people to connect with art and culture through a compelling mobile storytelling experience,” according to Google.
• Wearable Intelligence creates Glassware for energy, manufacturing, health care, and other industries and businesses.
Two businesses that have already been experimenting with Glass are the Washington Capitals NHL hockey club and oil field services company Schlumberger.
The Capitals selected several hundred fans at a January 2014 hockey game against the San Jose Sharks to try out a Glass app called Skybox that was built by APX Labs.
Using Skybox, the fans were able to see real-time instant replays on the devices, view different camera angles, pull up player stats and information with simple commands, share game highlights on social media, and receive other customized and specialized information through a high-performance content management system serving the Verizon Center.
Meanwhile, this project from Dignity Health shows how Glass applications can be used for patient care:
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