smart health connected glasses for activity monitoring

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The University of Southern California has teamed up with US optician VSP Global to develop the Level glasses. Simply put, these electronic glasses offer the same activity tracking features as a FitBit smart health connected bracelet or a smart health connected watch like the Apple Watch.

These waterproof glasses load sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer) and measure the number of steps taken, the calories burned and the activity time. They transmit the collected data to the user's smartphone via Bluetooth. A companion application is available on iOS and Android for activity tracking in the form of graphs and statistics that the user can view as they please. The application can also find his glasses in case of loss. The battery offers three days of autonomy.

Designed for both men and women, Level comes in three different versions. These three declensions are named after famous inventors: Nikola Tesla, Marvin Minsky and Hedy Lamarr.

Level, the evolution of Google Glasses

The latest example of smart health connected glasses has not really convinced. These were Google Glass, judged too intrusive and not sufficiently useful by a majority of the general publicdespite their innovative nature and the many possibilities they offered. Despite this failure, VSP Global is convinced that there is a market for smart health connected glasses.

In fact, VSP Global collaborated with Google on the Google Glass project. The firm had developed a subsidiary framework for Mountain View eyewear, able to ship corrective lenses for people with vision problems. This is not a trial run for the company.

Unlike Google Glass, Level glasses look just like ordinary glasses. The accessory thus gets rid of the problem of reluctance among some consumers to wear a smart health connected device in public. A problem that Level also encountered in their first version, codenamed Project Genesis.

A conciliatory aesthetic and technology prototype

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To achieve this, VSP Global had to rethink the process of designing and manufacturing eyewear from A to Z. According to Leslie Muller, co-lead of VSP Global's Innovation Lab, "The Shop", designers collaborated with biomedical engineers and firmware engineers, but also with traditional eyewear artisans to produce an accessory that is technologically advanced, beautiful, and impossible to discern.

For now, VSP Global does not plan to market Level glasses to the general public. As a healthcare company, the firm first wants to check that its glasses bring real added value. A sample of several hundred consumers will try a prototype for 4 months, and the results of this research Review will be unveiled in 2017.

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