Google's wearable computing project, Google Glass, has arrived at the US
FCC (Federal Communications Commission) for testing. The move was
confirmed by a filing with the FCC, which was first spotted by
Engadget. The
filing,
which is for the Explorer Edition of the device, includes certification
documents for the device's Bluetooth and Wi-Fi modules that include
line diagrams of the device. According to the filing, the device
features a Broadcom 2.4GHz 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi radio and a Bluetooth 4.0 +
LE module.
With the FCC making these documents public, it looks like
the devices have gone through testing at the commission, and Google
might update customers who've pre-ordered the Google Glass Explorer
Edition about availability, shortly.
Google had initially made
Project Glass official in April 2012, and then gave a
live demo showcasing Google Glass at a keynote during the Google I/O event in
June. It had also started
pre-bookings
for the Explorer Edition of the device, pricing it at $1,500 for San
Francisco developers attending the three day conference. It had promised
deliveries in 2013. Google is also conducting hackathons in San
Francisco and New York where it has invited developers who had
pre-ordered Glass, to introduce them to the device, its hardware and an
API called Mirror, to gear them up for developing for Glass. The
consumer version of Glass is expected to be
available
by next year.