Google Glass on Intel will be released in 2015

The next version of smart glasses Google Glass will be released in 2015 and will be applied microprocessors from Intel. Informs the print edition of The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) referring to personal informants.

Thanks to the cooperation with Intel application of Google Glass may expand in areas such as health, construction and creation, where the employees need a device to obtain different information, which, if all this hadn't held hands. For these purposes the company has already launched the Glass program at Work in cooperation with software developers Augmedix and APX Labs.

Also, Vice President, business development APX Labs Eric Johnsen told the WSJ that the latest version of Google Glass will probably get a more capacious battery. In 1 version of the device, the gadget can work a maximum of one day, and with a long record video only a few hours.

Despite all this, the company still considers glasses as a consumer product. More than 300 employees of Google are working on this gadget, while project Glass at Work are only 15 people. As reported by the informants print edition, a collaboration with Intel will not change this line.

Today, Google Glass used chips of the company Texas Instruments.

Google introduced their own innovative glasses that can connect to the online or phone to record video and make photo, in 2012 as a device aimed at a global consumer. But the product has not gained popularity among the masses and came under criticism in the investigation of issues of privacy was discussed that using such devices some people can watch the private life of other citizens). At the moment the gadget is available only to the inhabitants of the United States and England.

Intel processors are used in most PC. Director General of the company Brian Krzanich, which took their post in early may 2013, wants to focus on the production of chips for wearable devices.

Google uses Intel chips in the other own products: servers, self-managed machines and new streaming the media device Nexus Player.

sections: World News, Hi-Tech