A technical evaluation of devices for smart glasses applications

Abstract

Smart glasses have lately been under the spotlight for a variety of technical and usability reasons. Despite the current (early 2015) freeze of Google Glass sales, the area is active with other big companies involved in the development of smart glass devices-at the same time remains in early stages and fragmented. We undertake a technical study of these devices in order to identify trends and provide a classification to be used as a technical reference by application designers and developers. Our criteria are technical and range from the existence of an SDK to network connectivity and types of sensors.