Google Glass competitors vie for attention as industry grows
Plenty of eyes may be focused on Google Glass as the device attracts attention in the field of "augmented reality," but a crop of other players developing their own glasses-like products are also hoping to stand out as the industry matures.
Take Scope Technologies, which has partnered with Epson to develop computer-assisted glasses it calls the "augmented reality training system," designed to help guide the user through complicated industrial maintenance processes like assembling fuel pumps, making changes to HVAC systems, or fixing broken car parts.
The glasses, which launched last September, use a built-in camera to provide instructions and animated diagrams to the wearer, which are overlaid directly on the person's field of view as he or she goes about completing the task. Computer CAD models that are fed into a content management system are used to provide content for the unit
