Vue's Smart Glasses

In this day and age, the world of technology is rapidly expanding with new inventions and innovations that make the everyday persons life easier. Thirty years ago we didn’t have

Internet. Fifteen years ago we didn’t have smart phones. Now days, we have cars that can drive themselves, drones that deliver packages within hours of being ordered and telescopes that can see galaxies, nebulas and black holes millions of light-years away. One of the most interesting and captivating technological advancements currently taking the world by storm is smart glasses.

From recording live college lectures to watching Netflix without a television, the possibilities of smart glasses are unfathomable. While many large corporations such as Google and Apple have

This is the ideal choice of smart glass for prescription glasses wearers. Another great feature included in Vue’s smart glass includes a “Find My Glasses” app (Vue). Playing into the functionality aspect of

Vue’s smart glasses, Consumers are able to “use the app to pair gestures with custom actions tied to your phone, like hearing the current time, weather, activity summary, and more” (Vue). Light and discrete, Vue’s smart glasses look like ordinary glasses. If you were walking down the street, no one would be able to tell that they were smart glasses. This undoubtedly brings mass appeal to the smart glass technology. If you already wear glasses, why wouldn’t you want to be able to

Shirley 4 answer calls, listen to music and do a multitude of other things your boring old glasses can’t do?

To top the Sunday of smart glasses off with a cherry, Vue’s product’s “battery lasts up to one week” compared to ORA-1’s twelve-hour lifespan (Vue).

While Vue’s smart glass design presents a better-rounded, finished product compared to the ORA-1, there are some major setbacks. First and foremost, there is no camera or

This is a major setback considering the camera is what allows a multitude of functions and perks specific to smart glass such as replaying an academic lecture or reliving memories through your own, personal point of view. Another set back by Vue’s model is the lack of an Augmented Reality attachment. While there is an LED screen on the frame of the glasses, there is no sort of projection module such as the one on

Google Glass or the ORA-1. These cons take away from the futuristic feel of the glasses and their ability to preform the essential functions of a smart phone such as browsing the Internet, recording live video or watching your favorite television show. While Vue does offer more colors and styles than the ORA-1, there are only two basic frame styles. Now days, everyone wears their own custom style of frame that complements the shape of their face and head. A consumer will not spend his or her money if they don’t feel comfortable with their appearance while wearing smart glasses. While the bone conduction speakers located on the inside of the frame is an excellent idea it “is not meant to be an immersive audio experience in the same