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Google Glass-based startup raises $17 million in funding
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Google Glass-based startup raises $17 million in funding

Augmedix Inc, a startup that uses Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google Glass to provide documentation services to doctors and other healthcare workers, said on Monday it had closed a $17 million (11.7 million pounds) funding round led by investment firm Redmile Group. Augmedix's employees transcribe doctors' notes and update patients' electronic medical record through Google Glass. The San Francisco company, which has raised $40 million so far, also said it had received investments from five U.S. healthcare networks, including Sutter Health and Dignity Health, which together have more than 100,000 healthcare workers. Augmedix, with 400 employees, said it serves doctors in nearly all 50 U.S. states. Funds raised will be used to build up the service to serve more health systems and pr...
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Snapchat Working on Google Glass Rival: Report

NEW YORK: After changing the orthodox ways of chatting, video messaging application Snapchat is now reportedly working to give tough competition to Google with its own augmented reality (AR) "smart" glasses. According to a TechCrunch report, Snapchat has hired developers from major augmented reality groups like Microsoft's HoloLens, PTC's (formerly Qualcomm's) Vuforia and eye-tracking tech maker Eyefluence to make Snapchat's pair of "smart" glasses. The company showed interest when Google launched Glass and later bought Vergence Labs, which produced a pair of glasses equipped with an embedded camera for $15 million in March 2014. Company soon bought Scan.me for $50 million, a QR code-scanning/creating technology that would later manifest itself it the company's Snaptags feature. ...
Technogym Launches World’s First Google Glass Controlled Treadmill
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Technogym Launches World’s First Google Glass Controlled Treadmill

Wearable smart-computer represents the next stage in computing and Google Glass is the most hotly-anticipated gadget in that space. Now imagine your fitness equipment with this revolutionary technology Technogym, the leading producer of design and technology-driven fitness equipment, launches world’s first Google glass controlled treadmill 'Artis'. This avant-garde technology will create a rage in the fitness industry! The treadmill which has been exclusively designed by Technogym for the fitness connoisseurs of the future, allows the Glass wearer to control the speed of the treadmill using voice commands. They can also see running data on their headset and communicate with a personal trainer via a webcam. Thanks to the brand new UNITY technology, the first android-based console dis...