Connecting Smart Glasses to an Assistant

Now we have smart glasses (soon) connecting to an Assistant. To be shown at this weeks CES.   As the review suggests,  most likely interesting for narrow applications in the enterprise, where you really need hands-free, like we tested in the enterprise for machine maintenance.    I remember crawling under a machine, sweating with some smart glasses prototype on, reading a blueprint. 

Still I like the potential ecosystem-broadening aspect of these.  Different than the assistant on a phone App,  but similar.   So if I were climbing a cell tower, or crawling under a machine ...  and need hands-free ... very useful.  Or need to switch assistance quickly based on physical context and voice?  Elsewhere still not so much.    But there are opportunities, and having these examples out there will get people thinking about them.

Vuzix Blade test-drive: The return of the CES smart glasses
Alexa-connected smartglasses are here, minus the Alexa (at the moment). An early hands-on.
By  Scott Stein in CNET

The Vuzix Blade was promised back at CES 2018: The Alexa-connected smart glasses, which I demoed then, were like an updated Google Glass that promised a larger screen and assistant modes. The Vuzix Blade is now the first product I've gotten a chance to test in 2019. So far, what I've realized is that smart glasses are really here.

Whether or not they're useful is another story.

First of all, these $999 glasses aren't really designed for you at all. Vuzix says the glasses are aimed at businesses, or those with impairments that might benefit from pop-up hands-free assistance. This has been the pitch with previous smart glasses and Google Glass-like devices, too, and Vuzix is already focused mainly on enterprise uses for these types of headgear, like the headset the company made with Toshiba that I briefly wore last year.  .... "