Google Glass To Get Facial Recognition
According to the latest news, Google is getting ready to finish therumored application of facial recognition for Google Glass. On the other hand, it seems it won’t be actually manufactured by the search engine company.
It looks like a start up company from San Francisco, called Lambda Labs is going to be in charge of delivering to the developers a new programming interface application, or API, which could be used in the Glass project. So, from that point on, the developers would be able to design applications that could be used to identify faces or objects with the Google Glass.
During an interview with TechCrunch, Stephen Balaban the co-founder of Lambda Labs stated that the API is going to be delivered this week.
Rumors anticipating the improvement of Google Glass so that it could memorize faces or even match people at a networking event according to their interest, have been floating around for some time now, but Google didn’t rush too much in developing such an application.
However, the system is going to be a bit more complicated than you thought. For instance, if you thought that you will be able to see in the Glass real-time updates or notifications, you have been surrealistic. The application powering Google Glass, API – the Google Mirror would ask the user to take a photo and upload it on the Google servers in order to be analyzed. After that, Google is going to send some notifications to the user.
As highlighted by Sarah Perez from TechCrunch, the operation would require a delay of a few seconds. However, Google is trying to create a development kit for the Glass, one that would decrease the current response time.
Another problem is represented by the protection of privacy, which was set by either Google or the federal law.
Balaban mentioned in his statement for TechCrunch, that there is no rule in the Glass Terms of Service that would explicitly stop them from designing this app. He also mentioned that Google itself might change those Terms in order to stop them from doing this. Dealing with a new product, they don’t know what to expect from neither Google nor the other authorities.
Right after Facebook closed Face.com, the facial recognition website based in Israel, the Lambda Labs company started building the application. Thus, 45 000 developers searching for an API found what they were looking for through Lambda Labs.
