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Airport Using Google Glass For Security and Passenger Information
An anonymous reader notes this story about how an Amsterdam airport is putting Google Glass to use. "One of Europe's busiest airports, Amsterdam's Schiphol hub in the Netherlands, is trialling Google Glass for use by airport authority officers as a hands-free way to look up gate and airplane information. It's also testing Google's face computer on travelers passing through the terminal in a bid to better understand the 'customer journey', thanks to Glass' first person perspective....Google has pulled back on 'Glass for the masses' — at least for now. It shuttered its Glass Explorer program last month. Although far from killing off Glass, it has handed the project to Nest's Tony Fadell to oversee. Glass lives, as a standalone division within Google that's yet to prove its worth — but which Google evidently isn't willing to give up on, even though it's been forced to have a rethink about its go-to-market strategy. And, in all likelihood, the entire product proposition/design of the hardware."
Now, this is something I'd assert is a proper use for Google Glass -- a way to help improve workflow. I can see this being useful not just at the airport, but for bank tellers and other retail staff. It not just is a way of presenting info, but if something bad does happen, it is a way of helping prove who did it, especially if it takes place out of the arc of the overhead CCTV cameras.
This is a lot better use of the technology than trying to cam at the local Alamo Drafthouse.