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Smart glasses did not die with Google Glass. Meet the new Intel proposal...It is true that smart glasses are part of the futuristic imagery of many people, but after a failed concept, which Google gave the name of Google Glass, would not expect a new model to emerge on the market so soon after. Intel, however, has the right argument to prove to us, once again, that the technology industry has everything it takes to continue to amaze.The new Vaunt are born of this will. The smart glasses, which the company announced this week, would go unnoticed by looking less attentive. With a traditional black-and-white look, the device hides a laser that projects 400 x 150 images into the user's retina.Vaunt is, however, less ambitious than Google Glass. With this wearable, Intel wants to give the user the ability to receive notifications and contextual information directly in their field of vision - and nothing more. In this case there are no cameras or phones that give the device a more extensive list of features.

But note that the Vaunt's usefulness does not run out of receiving notifications of messages and applications. In a demonstration, Intel showed that the glasses can detect where the user is, in order to suggest content that can meet the needs associated with that specific space. In a kitchen, for example, the appliance will suggest recipes, while in the bedroom, playlists of packaged music may arrive.To mitigate possible concerns that there is a laser projecting light directly into the eyes of users, Mark Eastwood of the Intel New Devices Group explains that it has such low power that it is at the threshold of the "laser" category. In addition, the display is not visible when the user is not looking directly at the projection point. Focusing, according to the technology giant, is not a problem. Since the lux beam is being projected to the part behind the retina, anyone can focus the display, even if it has some visual impairment.

To mitigate possible concerns that there is a laser projecting light directly into the eyes of users, Mark Eastwood of the Intel New Devices Group explains that it has such low power that it is at the threshold of the "laser" category. In addition, the display is not visible when the user is not looking directly at the projection point. Focusing, according to the technology giant, is not a problem. Since the lux beam is being projected to the part behind the retina, anyone can focus the display, even if it has some visual impairment.
The glasses also include a Bluetooth sensor, which ensures pairing with the smartphone, a processor for future applications, a compass and an accelerometer. Future models can even integrate a microphone to give the user the possibility of interacting directly with a virtual assistant.
Intel said that Vaunt is a concept that should reach the market by the hand of other partner companies, as with other components developed by the US company. Guaranteed is a development kit for programmers who are interested in creating apps for this wearable.
The glasses are still at an early stage of development and the final version may end up at a very different point from the current one.

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