Google Glass tech to improve a Manufacturing Process?

Question

At a semiconductor chip-making facility, many machines and many hands and robots are used to produce and test wafers and chips during the very long process. It seems to me that Google Glass could be productively used for that.

I am a total Google Glass newbie, I'm brainstorming whether it might be a good tech.

Is Glass capable of receiving data from a machine and displaying it as a visual overlay? Would I have to do that by software from the vendor or could it read things by plugging into (a hardware attachment?)?

I'm sure Glass can read anything on the web or a database to which the wearer has login privileges, right? So then it's just a matter of applying a nice "GUI" which is transluscent in this case?

Can Glasses talk to each other directly?

thank you so much!

p.s. My apologies if this post violates a rule of etiquette. If you think it does, my questions to you are (if relevant to your feedback);

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Answer 1

"Is Glass capable of receiving data from a machine and displaying it as a visual overlay? Would I have to do that by software from the vendor or could it read things by plugging into (a hardware attachment?)?

I'm sure Glass can read anything on the web or a database to which the wearer has login privileges, right? So then it's just a matter of applying a nice "GUI" which is transluscent in this case?

Can Glasses talk to each other directly?"

Yes, Glass is capable of receiving data from a machine and displaying it in a visual overlay. You'd probably want to have that done through a server that would store the data, and then you would just pull the data from that server. I'm not quite sure of a way to do it through connection. I think it would be much smoother to just push data to a server from the machine, and then pull that data onto the Glass.

Yeah, if I understand the problem correctly, it should be as simple as pulling the data and placing it onto a nice GUI. An even cooler idea could be to have each machine have its own tag that could be scanned by the Glass, which would pull up the information automatically, no commands necessary (except pressing the "Camera" button to grab a picture and get the tag image.

Finally, yes, I think that Glass has the capability of communicating with other Glass, but nor very simply, and I haven't seen it done or done it myself. I'm not sure how you'd want them to communicate. Again, I think that aspect would be infinitely easier through a server - communicate from the Glass to a server to another Glass.

I hope that helped. Best of luck :)