Saturday, 6 December 2014

Is Intel planning to create a Google Glass competitor?

smart fashionable eyewear
The wearable device market is still young and growing, and Intel wants to dominate the scene before its rivals like ARM enters.It already released the MICA smart bracelet. It has been reported that its chips will power the next iteration of Google Glass. And now, the leading chipmaker and italy-based Luxottica Group are collaborating to develop a smart fashionable eyewear, as part of a multi-year partnership ''deal.'' The product to come out of that deal is expected to hit consumers' wrists in 2015. Details about Intel-Luxottica deal or the smart eyeglass are scarce at the moment.
In case you don't know, Luxottica is the world's largest eyewear maker, with control of 80% of the world's eyewear brands. It is also the same company designing, manufacturing frames for Google Glass.