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"FORTUNE &amp;#8212; In a post for ProCamera.com, Dan Butterfield has assembled pretty much everything you need to know about the state of play in wearable computer glasses, including the 11-minute video of the real-time demonstration that Google&amp;#8217;s \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGOOG\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Sergey Brin orchestrated at the company&amp;#8217;s annual developers conference last week. If you haven&amp;#8217;t seen it yet, you&amp;#8217;re in for a treat.\n\nIs this the future of computing? And if so, Butterfield asks, can anyone give Google a run for the money?\nAlthough he notes that several start-ups\u00A0are already selling wearable glassware or clip-on cams &amp;#8212; among them\u00A0Microvision,\u00A0MOD Live,\u00A0Looxcie,\u00A0Contour,\u00A0Vizux, and\u00A0GoPro\u00A0&amp;#8212; Butterfield ends by asking Siri whether Apple \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAAPL\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t will try to &amp;#8220;kick some Google Glass&amp;#8221;:\nI \u2018betcha\u2019 the answer is\u00A0\u201CYes!\u201D\u00A0In fact, several years ago, Apple filed\u00A0patents\u00A0for their own wearable computer glasses. Apple later hired\u00A0wearable computer expert\u00A0Richard DeVaul. While at MIT, DeVaul helped to develop \u2018Memory Glasses.\u2019 DeVaul jumped ship in 2012 and is now a\u00A0Rapid Evaluator\u00A0working on Google\u2019s Project X. Does Apple\u2019s wearable project still live? Siri?\nWhatever the name of the Apple\u2019s eventual eye-ware device (iShades? eye-Sight?),\u00A0Apple can quickly be a formidable competitor [emphasis his]. One reason why Apple can slide into this space is the fact that software + hardware + design + AppStore are critical for success. No one is better than Apple at building platforms and the seamless integration of elegant hardware and software. Apple\u2019s ongoing development of artificial intelligence (AI) on iOS (aka\u00A0Siri), is also a\u00A0huge\u00A0advantage. Apple has some catch up work to do in\u00A0Maps, but they are on that project in a big way.\nAnd here\u2019s another notion\u2026\u00A0Apple may have\u00A0already\u00A0launched the wearable computer needed to power the glass screen. Huh? Well, it\u2019s called the iPhone. Apple has proven that they can easily modify iOS software. Why not iOS integration with a wireless (or tethered) external miniaturized Apple iSight? This \u2018mini\u2019 clip-on iSight could function as a combination camera + tiny projector. This camera/projector might capture photos/videos and project images on to wearable glass lenses. Only time will tell if Apple will opt to join the party, but odds are they will.\nYou can read the rest of Butterfield&amp;#8217;s post here."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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