Google Glass has been one of the most interesting pieces of technology that we have been able to see this year. It is a unique peace of hardware which is set to start a new market segment of its own. But even before the market segment exists, the competition has already started.
Google is no more the only company working on the smart glass concept. Technology giant Sony has decided to enter into this field as well. Recent reports indicate that Sony is also working on a smart glass device which the company likes to call as a ‘head-mounted display apparatus.’
Things have started to take interesting turns this year with a lot of new technologies being worked upon and that too by many companies at the same time. We have Apple and Samsung working on the smart watch concept whereas now Sony has joined Google in the smart glass segment. Sony recently revealed that the company is working on a smart glass concept that is similar to the Google Glass. Sony has already filed a patent for the same and has the patent number 20130069850 and called as the ‘head-mounted display apparatus.’
Sony described the patent as “A head-mounted display apparatus includes an image display device, a wearing device with which the image display device is worn on a head of an observer, and an attachment member with which the image display device is attached to the wearing device. The attachment member is capable of adjusting a position of the image display device relative to the wearing device independently in a first direction and in a second direction, the first direction being defined by a virtual line connecting centers of eyes of the observer, the second direction being perpendicular to the first direction and extending vertically with respect to the observer.”
This battle is definitely going to get interesting, but Google might have the upper hand since the Google Glass is already out (almost) whereas Sony has still not shown its device and how it works.
