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In an industrial setting they don't really need to solve that problem. Battery low? Swap out the glasses for another pair.



Yep. There's also external battery packs, which probably not a problem for some jobs.

However, there were some other issues I encountered in previous (early) Google Glass development that I wonder if they have been resolved:

- Google Glass devices were prone to overheating to the point of shutting down, so it was not possible to do anything terribly computationally intensive.

- Support for more corporate oriented wifi protocols (eg LEAP) was marginal; the Glass even had trouble making an initial connection to a hidden SSIDs on a standard WPA2 network.

- Barcode scanner support is based on camera image capture; unfortunately small barcodes were difficult to impossible to scan with the Glass as a result (both due to the need to position the code close to the camera, and the nature of the camera that made closeups of small barcodes very blurry).


I'm not sure that's true. One of the examples has a tech working at the top of a wind turbine. Maybe he's supposed to bring up a backup battery pack?


Just plug it to the wind turbine's output for a couple seconds :P




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