Google Glass: Introduction

Did you know? We can now stream real-time captions to Google Glass on our caption streaming platform.

As with all new technology, the Glass can be rather confusing at first. You are probably wondering, what on earth is Google Glass? You’ll understand what this product is and how it feels to wear one after the jump  …. perhaps you’re even thinking about the potential uses. Wouldn’t you like to have everything captioned for you?

Matthew Israelsohn models the Glass

Matthew Israelsohn models the Glass

Matthew Israelsohn models the Glass for us. It sits nicely alongside his hearing aid and cochlear implant. Matthew says;

Seeing the screen in front of m9e & interacting with it whilst talking to others physically in front of me is quite an experience. If only I could have kept these Glasses to write software for! There’s so much potential & fun to be had in exploring just what these could do for deaf people now & in the near future.

Marlene Dixon tested the Google Glass with one of our captioners today. This is what she saw with the real-time captioning;

Glass

Marlene was delighted with the user experience. This is what she said;

The conversation was ‘real time’ with a slight delay to the Glass.  (Real time to the Macbook).  I feel this is due to the signal having to go to Android phone first then to Glass.  I have done testing myself with notifications:  My iphone is always first, then macbook, then Android. The delay was minimal and not enough to call a delay in a conversation.

We’ll introduce you to the Glass and show you, step by step, how to use it. We will follow up shortly with more step-by-step videos and commentary from users.