34 Min.
#2: Google Glass - Innovation Made In Austria Code Red by Red Swan
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- Technologie
In this Code Red Episode we discuss the incredible story of Google Glass tracing back to an Austrian R&D project back in 2004 and how one of the Austrian team members became Google's head of Google Glass.
Austrian Professor Alois Ferscha describes his work with the "Spectacles" project as both his greatest success and his greatest failure. The project was a collaborative effort between Ferscha's team at Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz and the Austrian eyewear manufacturer Silhouette, resulting in the creation of a pair of cutting-edge data glasses back in 2004.
As Google Glass, the technology became a world sensation - without Prof. Ferscha's involvement.
👓As early as 2003, Professor Alois Ferscha and his team of researchers at JKU began toying with the idea of creating a computer built into eyeglasses. A year later, they partnered with Austrian eyewear manufacturer Silhouette to bring their vision to life.
🔚In 2007, the prototype of the data glasses was completed. But then the project came to an abrupt end because Silhouette had other challenges to overcome and could not bring the product to market.
🏁Google, on the other hand, could!
✨In 2013, a member of Professor Ferscha's former Spectacles research team presented the technology from back then in Zurich, Switzerland. Only in his presentation, it was called Google Glass. And he was now heading the Google Glass division at the world's largest search engine company.
💭In Code Red Episode 2 we discuss this Google Glass Story with 354fold patent holder Chris Kalaboukis who was running Yahoo!'s innovation program for five years and explains that a team at Yahoo! had also developed similar technologies in 2007.
🎯💌 Subscribe to Code Red to get the new episodes directly into your inbox ♥️: coderedbyredswan.substack.com
🎬 Video, design concept & production by the incredibly talented Red Swan Chief Creative Officer (CCO) Xaver Kettele (🙏😊)
🎵 music: audiojungle
In this Code Red Episode we discuss the incredible story of Google Glass tracing back to an Austrian R&D project back in 2004 and how one of the Austrian team members became Google's head of Google Glass.
Austrian Professor Alois Ferscha describes his work with the "Spectacles" project as both his greatest success and his greatest failure. The project was a collaborative effort between Ferscha's team at Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz and the Austrian eyewear manufacturer Silhouette, resulting in the creation of a pair of cutting-edge data glasses back in 2004.
As Google Glass, the technology became a world sensation - without Prof. Ferscha's involvement.
👓As early as 2003, Professor Alois Ferscha and his team of researchers at JKU began toying with the idea of creating a computer built into eyeglasses. A year later, they partnered with Austrian eyewear manufacturer Silhouette to bring their vision to life.
🔚In 2007, the prototype of the data glasses was completed. But then the project came to an abrupt end because Silhouette had other challenges to overcome and could not bring the product to market.
🏁Google, on the other hand, could!
✨In 2013, a member of Professor Ferscha's former Spectacles research team presented the technology from back then in Zurich, Switzerland. Only in his presentation, it was called Google Glass. And he was now heading the Google Glass division at the world's largest search engine company.
💭In Code Red Episode 2 we discuss this Google Glass Story with 354fold patent holder Chris Kalaboukis who was running Yahoo!'s innovation program for five years and explains that a team at Yahoo! had also developed similar technologies in 2007.
🎯💌 Subscribe to Code Red to get the new episodes directly into your inbox ♥️: coderedbyredswan.substack.com
🎬 Video, design concept & production by the incredibly talented Red Swan Chief Creative Officer (CCO) Xaver Kettele (🙏😊)
🎵 music: audiojungle
34 Min.