千万别拿谷歌眼镜不当神器

    批评谷歌眼镜（Google Glass）的人可能又少了一个唱衰这款产品的理由。

    可穿戴设备软件设计公司Wearable Intelligence是一家位于旧金山的初创企业，由严-大卫•艾尔里奇、瑞安•朱尼以及蔡司•菲戈于去年七月创立。这家公司开发的企业级软件能利用谷歌眼镜来提升服务人员的日常表现。

    举例来说，医疗专业人士能使用谷歌眼镜来浏览病人病史，无需上电脑查看传统图表，从而能更快地进行诊断。再比如，建筑工人在工作中无需再翻看建筑图纸。

    曾在谷歌担任产品经理的艾尔里奇说：“我们的软件针对90％的职场人士，这些人不在电脑后面工作，而且经常需要动手干活。”Wearable Intelligence公司的软件有三大功能：安全登陆并访问客户端服务器、客户能高度定制的虚拟“工作流程清单”以及使用谷歌眼镜摄像头的视频流功能。

    有近10家机构在谷歌眼镜上试用Wearable Intelligence的软件，位于马萨诸塞州波士顿市的哈佛大学柏斯以色列狄肯尼斯医学中心（Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center）是其中的一家。

    目前，医生和护士在普通电脑上通过自己的医师执照登陆系统。电脑上会出现一个二维条形码，帮助在谷歌眼镜上验证用户身份。一旦登录成功，医务人员就能通过谷歌眼镜查看病人病历、一步步进行诊断，甚至通过视频流邀请同事进行会诊。完成诊断后，用户只需摘下眼镜，软件就会从谷歌眼镜中清除全部用户和患者数据。（如果用户离开医院，谷歌眼镜将自动关机、删除数据并通知用户返回医院。）

    Wearable Intelligence公司目前已经募得100多万美元的种子资金，投资者包括首轮资本公司（First Round Capital）、谷歌创投（Google Ventures）、安德森•霍洛维茨（Andreessen Horowitz）、凯鹏华盈（Kleiner Perkins）以及连续创业家史蒂夫•布兰克。Wearable Intelligence 公司表示，2014年，它将致力于增加新功能，比如在几小时后、或者在经过复杂的医疗程序之后，自动登出系统，同时将业务扩展到其他行业。

    正如艾尔里奇所说，谷歌眼镜不是最终产品——个人用户版谷歌眼镜预计将于今年晚些时候面市，而可穿戴技术仍然属于新兴市场。艾尔里奇表示，虽然存在怀疑论者，但谷歌眼镜终将拥有各种应用。

    “这可能需要一些时间，但总有一天会变成现实。”（财富中文网）

    译者：项航

    Google Glass critics may now have a reason to be less skeptical.

    Wearable Intelligence, a San Francisco-based startup founded last July by Yan-David Erlich, Ryan Junee and Chase Feiger, has developed enterprise software that uses Google's wearable computer glasses to improve the day-to-day performance of service workers.

    Medical professionals, for example, can use Google Glass to skim a patient's medical history without referencing traditional charts on a computer, and so diagnose symptoms more quickly. Or a construction worker could work without ever reaching for a building map.

    "It's for the 90% of workers who don't work behind a computer and use their hands a lot," explains Erlich, a former Google (GOOG) product manager. The software offers three major features: secure sign-on and access to client servers, a sort of virtual "workflow checklist" template clients can heavily customize, and a video streaming ability that uses the device's camera.

    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Mass., is one of around 10 organizations that have been testing Wearable Intelligence's software with Glass.

    Doctors and nurses currently log in to the system with their medical credentials at a regular computer. The computer presents a two-dimensional bar code called a QR code that helps authenticate the user's identity with Google Glass. Once they are logged in, medics can check a patient's medical history, follow step-by-step procedures for forming a diagnosis, or even have a colleague weigh in via video streaming, all using Glass. Once the user is done, they simply remove the glasses, causing the software to erase all user and patient data from the device. (If a user exits the hospital, Glass automatically shuts down, erases the data and notifies the user to turn back.)

    Wearable Intelligence has raised over $1 million in seed funding from backers including First Round Capital, Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins and serial entrepreneur Steve Blank. The startup will spend the rest of 2014 layering on new features -- say, automatic sign-off after a few hours, or walkthroughs of complex medical procedures -- and expanding into other industries, the company says.

    As Erlich notes, Glass isn't a final product -- the consumer version is expected later this year, and wearable technology remains a nascent market. Despite the skeptics, Glass will eventually have a wide variety of applications, says Erlich.

    "It may take some variable amount of time, but it will happen."