Olympus made $1,500 open-source smart glasses
Olympus is reviving the EyeTrek brand it used at the turn of the century to sell a series of head-mounted displays that were as ahead of their time as they were problematic. But the company isn’t creating a new set of TV glasses, at least not yet. Instead, the newest EyeTrek — the Insight EI-10 — is a $1,500 open-source, enterprise-focused smart glasses product.
The El-10 can be mounted on all sorts of glasses, from regular to the protective working kind. It has a tiny 640 x 400 OLED display that, much like Google Glass, sits semi-transparently in the corner of your vision when you wear the product on your face. A small forward-facing camera can capture photos and videos, or even beam footage back to a supervisor in real time. The...