LUXOTTICA GETS LUXUARIOUS WITH GOOGLE
Italian eyewear makeover with Google’s frames
Luxottica, an Italian eyewear brand which is the world’s biggest eyewear company controls over 80% of world’s major eyewear marquee. Luxottica consist of owners of Ray – Ban, Oakley and other major brands. New pair of glasses in a new avatar is in processing mode which will be launched soon. GOOGLE GLASS, a wearable technology with OHMD; optical head mounted display. Google provided an option of 4 for frame choices. The Royal Chitwan National Park at Nepal adopted googles glasses for tracking wild animals.
Googles first range of glasses contained:
• Augmented reality, optical head mounted display, wearable technology and wearable computers
• Android 4.4.2
• CPU OMAP 4430 system on chip and dual core processor
• 2 GB RAM
• 16 GB flash memory
• Bone conduction transducer
• the frames will be able to record video
• take pictures
• sleek, comfortable design
• head tracking navigation
• conversation starter
• Google now rocks.
There were certain cons along with pros due to which google had to stop selling the first version in the market. The first version of google glass was outrageously expensive and was not easily affordable to fit everyone’s budget. Frames costed around $1500 USD. Battery life of the glasses was very poor. 570mAh internal lithium – ion battery. The pictures lacked quality and pixels. 5 mega pixel photos lacked proper lightning. The apps were limited in number. There were certa