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Google Glass may be in the offing, but Vergence Labs is announcing it can do virtually the same thing with its better-looking Epiphany Eyewear. The startup has begun making the glasses and is opening up its site for preorders today.

Vergence has made a set of “smart glasses” that are simply well-designed glasses with a computer inside. That computer powers a high-definition video camera that you can use to take pictures or record videos. It has software and apps that let you integrate with mobile devices to share your imagery with your friends. You can livestream your video directly to your Facebook wall if you wish.

While it may be tagged as a copycat of Google Glass, Vergence co-founder and chief executive Erick Miller told VentureBeat that he dreamed up the idea for Epiphany Eyewear before Google ever announced it — and even before Google c0-founder Sergey Brin broke away to start Project Glass and the Google X skunkworks team. Vergence was formed in December 2011, but the team has been working on the project since May 2011, and it reached completion with a staff of just seven.

“We love geeks, but the Google Glass design is off the far end of the spectrum of Star Trek,” Miller said. “It starts to feel like a costume on your face. We have progressive designs that marry form with function. We call it geek chic.”

Miller said he dreamed it up while in an MBA class at the University of California at Los Angeles. By accident, he found co-founder Jon Rodriguez, who was independently working on a volumetric 3D display. Rodriguez, then at Stanford University and now chief scientist, tweeted about the display, and Miller followed the link via Hacker News. He contacted him and proposed they work on a computer eyewear company. Rodriguez worked on the display as part of his honors thesis at Stanford, and he quit a summer job at Facebook to spend more time on it.

Miller sees the device as more than a super geek’s toy, which is how some folks have described Google Glass. Vergence’s plastic titanium glasses are designed to be less obtrusive, and he hopes that one day they could be used to help people with memory loss to remember things they’ve seen. The main purpose is to enable people to capture moments when they happen and “be the best pair of glasses anyone has.”

“We see the evolution of smart glasses and computing-enabled eyewear as an incredibly powerful way to enhance and extend people’s capabilities,” Miller said. “This is our first release in wearable computers, and we firmly believe computing-enabled eyewear is the next big platform and channel after smartphones and mobile.”

You can share videos to the company’s own social-sharing website, YouGen.Tv. Vergence is also announcing today its own application programming interface for writing apps for its glasses. The computer can project an image onto the corner of the lens, but it won’t be used at the outset to do things like check your email or view images.

The lenses are high-quality, with layers that protect the user from ultraviolet rays. They block dangerous polarized reflections, and they have antireflective coating and a special conductive layer that allows for electrically activated sunglasses. By pushing a button, you can instantly toggle the sunglass lens darkness on and off.

The features include two mobile apps that connect, stream, view, and share point-of-view video from the glasses. The product uses a scalable video architecture that lets wearers share the videos to social networks or the video servers at YouGen.Tv. You can connect the glasses to any connected device, such as a smartphone or tablet, to upload video or images to the website. The optics support prescription lenses. The device can record video, transcode it, store it, and stream it.

So far, you can’t talk to your Epiphany Eyewear as you can in the Google Glass demo. But that could be a feature in the future. The company is working on improving computer vision to increase the quality of videos.

The team of seven includes Miller and Rodriguez. Its staff also includes engineer Peter Brook, designer David Meisenholder (who made Lady Gaga’s GL20 video glasses), user interface designer Stephen Zito, PR person Vanessa Schott, electrical engineer Joel Brinton, and Eric Smalls, an intern and computer science student who was once homeless. That’s a pretty small team to go up against Google.

[Update: Joel Brinton said he was never part of the company itself and performed design work for it under a contract.]

“From what we can tell, Google is building a consumer-electronics product you wear on your face,” Miller said. “We are building an incredible pair of glasses.”

Investors include well-known venture capitalist Tim Draper, Charlie Cheever, Adam Draper, Joel Yarmon, and other angels. The company has raised a round of $11 million in funding and is in the process of raising another round. The headquarters is in Menlo Park, Calif., but the team will relocate to Los Angeles soon. Miller said the company has filed for 17 patents.

“It will amplify our ability to consume information, offloading part of our memory so we can then learn faster, learn more, and have instant access to information through integrated display systems,” Miller said. “Further into the future, we even believe you’ll be able to control other computerized objects, such as robots, with your glasses; using technology like brain-computer interfaces, eye-tracking, and gestural interfaces.”

Epiphany Eyewear is selling $299 for 8GB of flash memory; $399 for 16GB; and $499 for 32GB. There’s a wide variety of competition, including Google Glass.

“We are a little bit of an underdog, but we’re passionate, and we have an incredible device,” Miller said.

Here’s a video of Epiphany Eyewear.

Our inevitable, long march towards cyborg status has begun. We know there are plenty of smartwatches in development, but smart eyewear is gaining just as much traction. Google Glass is merely the biggest profile example of what looks set to be a major trend.

So, you know plenty about Google Glass, but it won’t be the only tech eyewear hitting the market in the next couple years. There are more than a dozen more gadgets – some announced, some rumored – that hope to grace your face. Some are by major players and some may not directly compete with Glass at all once they’re complete, but here is the full scoop anyway. If you’re hoping to attach some processors and cameras to your head, these are the devices that you’ll want to check out.

1. Sony Smart Glasses

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Could Sony be working on some smartglasses? It’s a little tricky to tell because the company does obviously already produce 3D glasses and things like the Entertainment Access Glasses, which provide closed-captions and assistive audio for the visually-impaired or hearing-impaired watching 3D movies. Sony has also released the Personal 3D Viewer which is a head-mounted display for immersing yourself in movies or gaming. However, there is reason to believe that Sony is, at least, exploring the idea of smartglasses.

In June 2012, Engadget reported on a Sony patent filing for a smartglasses device capable of transmitting information to other wearers, connecting to a watch, and reading visual tags.

In March this year, TechCrunch picked up on a Sony patent from 2012 that described a full pair of glasses with displays for both eyes. That would give the potential for true augmented reality. The device is also expected to contain cameras and built-in earphones.

2. Vuzix Smart Glasses M100

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We saw the Vuzix M100 smartglasses at CES back in January. They are slated to arrive before the end of the year and should cost under $500. The device looks more like an ear-mounted hands-free system and apparently it can be worn on either eye. It hooks up to your iPhone or Android smartphone thanks to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. The color WQVGA display basically mirrors your phone’s screen. It also supports GPS, has a built-in head tracker, a microphone and speaker, and a 720p camera for capturing images or videos on the 8GB of flash storage.

3. Epiphany Eyewear

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Does it take more than a camera to make your glasses smart? Epiphany Eyewear is offering glasses with an HD digital video camera built-in for one-touch recording. They come in 8GB ($300), 16GB ($400), or 32GB ($500) varieties and there’s a Micro USB plug for recharging and data transfer.

There’s also an electric sunglasses switch that allows you to change the level of tinting. If you hook them up to a tablet or smartphone and use the YouGen.TV app you could live stream your P.O.V. to the world. You can pre-order and they are supposed to be released around now.

4. GlassUP

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Rapidly closing in on its $150,000 Indiegogo target, GlassUp is another wannabe entrant to the smartglasses market. It’s a full pair of lightweight glasses designed to link up with your Android smartphone via Bluetooth LE. It’s packed with sensors, it has a touchpad on the side, and the display will be 320 x 240 pixels. The promo video discusses the standard email and text pop-ups, as well as navigation, but since it’s a full pair of glasses there are plenty of augmented reality possibilities if the right apps are created.

5. Oculon Smart Glasses

In June this year, at the Computex trade show in Taiwan, a company called Oculon Optoelectronics showed off an early prototype that looks similar to Google Glass. Laptop Magazine got a hands-on look at the Oculon Smart Glasses, which are not intended to be sold directly to the public, but will be sold to unnamed partners who may brand them accordingly.

They should cost around $500 and Oculon claims they will have a 720p display and a 2,100mAh battery, which would be a significant step up from the current Google Glass specs. Additionally there will be a dual-core Cortex-A9 CPU, a microphone, and Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cellular connectivity.

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6. Olympus MEG4.0

News of the Olympus MEG4.0 smartglasses landed back in July 2012 in the aftermath of Google’s I/O Glass reveal. The original press release described a device that hooks up to your smartphone thanks to Bluetooth 2.1 support. It had a 320 x 240 pixel virtual screen and would last for 8 hours based on 15 second “bursts of use.” It also attached to a regular pair of glasses in the only image released. We haven’t heard anything else about these glasses, though a Japanese patent application from Olympus was uncovered by Egami blog.

7. CastAR Gaming Glasses

Though it’s made for gaming, the CastAR is not just an Oculus Rift competitor. Designed by a couple of ex-Valve employees, it projects a miniature virtual reality into the 3D space of the real world. A prototype of CastAR was shown off in May.

According to The Verge, there are two miniature projectors that shoot images to each screen on the glasses. Then active shutter glasses filter the images for each of your eyes, creating a 3D effect. Finally, a camera built into the glasses “sees infrared LEDs positioned around the edges of that projector screen so that the glasses can optically track the exact position of your head.” This allows a game to detect exactly when you move your head and what you’re looking at. We imagine that glasses like this could be used for a lot more than games, and look forward to learning more about the project.

8. Microsoft Glass

The idea that Microsoft could be working on smartglasses surfaced back in November 2012 after a Microsoft patent for augmented reality glasses was uncovered. The patent was filed in May 2011 and it discussed possibilities for overlaying detailed information on top of live action, specifically things like stats and replays during live sports matches, and lyrics floating next to a singer during a concert.

  • In June 2012, an apparently genuine document was leaked outlining Microsoft’s plans for the next Xbox. As The Verge reported, it included plans for Kinect Glasses (Project Fortaleza) which would be Wi-Fi or 4G connected augmented reality glasses capable of enhancing gaming in the living room at home or enhancing the real world when worn out and about.
  • In August 2012 The Verge picked up on another patent for a multiplayer gaming device with head-mounted display which they identified as possibly the same Kinect Glasses. Microsoft’s response was 'Not all patents applied for or received will be incorporated into a Microsoft product.'

9. Oakley Smart Glasses

What’s the problem with all the digital eyewear you’ve seen so far? A complete lack of style, right? So, who better to tackle that problem than designer sunglasses brand Oakley? The CEO of Oakley floated the idea of AR glasses back in April and claimed the company had been “chasing this beast since 1997.” Back in 2004, Oakley did combine an MP3 player with a pair of sunglasses, and it holds a huge number of patents for heads-up displays. It has also released the Oakley Airwave ski goggles, which provide a heads-up display and navigation for skiers. Could it enter the market, or work with someone else on a Google Glass competitor? It’s certainly a possibility.

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10. Meta Augmented Reality Glasses

This is a very different approach from Google Glass, the Meta glasses plug into your PC and have twin 960 x 540 pixel TFT LCD displays, along with a raft of sensors, and a depth-sensing infrared camera that can track your gestures to provide a true augmented reality experience. This allows you to manipulate virtual objects, and it’s closer to the Minority Report scenario that everyone imagines than Google Glass. The SDK employs Unity 3D and the company is currently showing off augmented reality sculpting software.

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Having raised almost double the $100,000 goal on Kickstarter, Meta has already been taking pre-orders for a Space Glasses edition aimed at developers ($492). The full META.01 Streamlined Edition is also up for sale at $667 and deliveries are due to start in April 2014.

11. Recon Jet Glasses

If you’re willing to splash out $600, you can pre-order a pair of Recon Jet smartglasses for delivery in February. It’s described as a “heads-up display for sports” and it packs a 1GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor with 1GB of RAM, support for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS, and an HD camera with an integrated speaker and microphone.

(Recon Instruments)

We took a look at the Recon Jet Pilot Edition when it was announced back in June at a discounted $500 price tag to reward early adopters. The first batch sold out.

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12. Optinvent ORA Digital Eyewear

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A French company called Optinvent has been working on augmented reality glasses for a number of years now. It eventually showed off its head-mounted display, dubbed ORA, in June this year. These augmented reality glasses could be used for navigation, messaging, watching video, and gaming. ORA would hook up to your computer or smartphone via Wi-If.

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The device itself will also include various sensors, a camera, microphone, and loudspeaker, and Bluetooth connectivity. It’s based on a proprietary platform and developers can sign up for the SDK now. Optinvent claims the construction from “low cost molded plastic optical elements” makes it much cheaper than the competition.

13. Apple iGlass

Talk of any new device in tech, especially a high profile one from a major competitor, invites inevitable rumors that Apple will weigh in with one of its own. So, is there any reason to believe that Apple could be working on iGlass or some form of digital eyewear?

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  • Take a look at Free Patents Online and you’ll find an Apple patent that refers to “Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for projecting a source image in a head-mounted display apparatus for a user.” Of course Apple has a patent for just about everything, so this is hardly proof of a forthcoming smartglasses device, just that it has done R&D in this area.
  • When Tim Cook was quizzed on wearable tech in May, he hinted that an iWatch was in the cards, but he also said of Google Glass, “It’s probably more likely to appeal to certain markets,” suggesting he doesn’t think it has mass market appeal. He went on to say that he wears glasses because he can’t see without them and, “I don’t know a lot of people that wear them that don’t have to.”
  • It doesn’t look like we’ll see smartglasses from Apple anytime soon, but Rob Enderle speculated on what Apple’s iGlass would look like.