Sony has made it official with their announcement today that they will start selling their SmartEyeglass Developer Edition SED-E1 starting in March in ten countries and they are even taking pre-orders starting today in the U.K. and Germany. Sony is also releasing the official version of the SmartEyeglass SDK so developers can start working on porting their apps over to the device.
Sony indicates several SmartEyeglass apps will be available from Google Play once the devices start to ship. These include the Twitter and Facebook apps we already knew about along with the official SmartEyeglass app used to configure settings on the device. Sony indicates apps for Gmail, reading RSS feeds, calendar, and voice control will also be available.
Sony is hoping the SED-E1 version sets itself apart from a device like Google Glass by providing a binocular display in which information is displayed on top of the lens the user looks through rather than using a dedicated HUD display the user has to glance over to see.
Sony is making this particular model of SmartEyeglass available to developers in Japan, the U.S., the U.K and Germany starting in March. Enterprise customers will have access shortly thereafter, also in March, in France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands and Sweden. Sony is pricing the SED-E1 version of their smartglass device at $840 USD.
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source: Sony
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