Google Glass, Augmented Reality, and the Warehouse

Google Glass is Google’s project to create augmented reality glasses. Google Glass is being designed for consumers, but the first clear business application may occur in warehouses.

Google Glass is Google’s project to create augmented reality glasses. Google Glass is being designed for consumers, but the first clear business application may occur in warehouses.

Google Glass is Google’s project to create augmented reality glasses. If you are not familiar with Google Glass, instead of me trying to explain it with words, watch this short video of the technology in action. Google Glass is being designed for consumers, but the first clear business application may occur in warehouses.

Knapp AG has created augmented reality glasses for the warehouse. Knapp is a material handling and logistics software solution provider headquartered in Austria.

The company’s KiSoft Vision solution is very analogous to the way Voice Recognition works in the warehouse, except that instead of having verbal prompts for tasks, the prompts are visual. Again, watching a short video of Knapp’s solution in action is the best way to understand how it works.

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