Google Glass

GOOGLE GLASS

The Immersive Education Initiative works to redefine our educational system with new digital technologies and virtual aspects. In past week, IMMERSION 2015 has been chosen as the official site that will take place in Paris, France. The guests and speakers, mostly education and technology related professionals, will be attending at the conference and discuss about many types of immersive technologies. The specific date is expect to be announced in March.

For more information can be found at summit.immersiveeducation.org/ 

Google Glass has been widely advertised in which almost everyone has once heard or come across in a web now. It gained a great interest from many people all around the world with this new innovative technology embedded in an optical head-mounted display. It is created by Google and looks similar to the regular glasses except that it displays various information on the “lens” as hands-free format.

It is very useful glass that allows the user with various features like navigation, strava run, golf-sight, SwingByte, Send Message, Google Play Music, and much more. I personally find navigation technologies in our today’s society are developing very rapidly – navigation/map is the one of the most used technology for general people. Navigation usually exists and used mostly in phone, Internet, and car, and I think since the past few years, I can see how quickly the features are updated and changing.

Another feature that I personally find the most interesting feature is the GolfSight. I have been playing golf since I was very young and I really enjoy playing it especially in the warm weather with courses filled with other than the snow. GolfSight is a GPS for golfer that will provide the user with useful data like accurate pin distance, course data, and scoring information. I think it is very convenient since the players do not have to carry around the scoring sheet.

Lastly, the feature that allows the user to send a message just through your glass is seemed just too convenient and useful. Everyone sends messages all the time and it can be used in certain circumstances like driving or skiing where one does not need to look at the phone while doing other things – it might even reduce the car accident. The messages can be send through SMS or Hangouts.

This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Collaborative Computing. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc