Epson has released the Moverio BT-200, its latest wearable smart glasses aimed at the education vertical.
The device has two displays for both lenses and can project a 203cm image at a distance of five metres, and an 8.13m image up to 20 metres away.
The glasses are powered with a paired control unit that runs on Android 4.0 and uses a trackpad to control the interface. Extra storage can be utilised with a micro-SD card up to 32GB.
Epson stated that institutions such as the CSIRO, University of Western Sydney, Griffith University and Monash University have already started working with the new technology.
“Our main application is for student research projects combining computer vision and data visualisation, which will make use of the glasses as a remote client to the vision-visualisation processing server,” said Dr Ruben Gonzalez, senior lecturer at Griffith University.
The Epson Moverio BT-200 is priced at $849 through Epson’s online store.
Google Glass is priced at US$1500 for a test model, and is yet to have a full retail release. While it has one display lens, the Google unit doesn’t require a wired connection to use a paired device.
Some app developers have already abandoned Google Glass projects due to lack of market interest. Google has stated its continued support for the device, and has predicted a 2015 public launch.
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