Docomo Vusix: Smart Glasses to Translate Languages

What if someday you could understand all the languages of the world? What if that information is overlayed in front of your eyes? Japanese firm NTT Docomo created Vusix, a pair of smart glasses that can translate foreign languages and overlay the information on real world documents.

The translation app sends visual information recorded by the glasses’ camera to a server in the cloud, where character recognition software reads the text, translates it, and sends the translation back to the glasses’ viewfinder and overlaying it on documents.

Still in development phase, Docomo plans to refine the app for visitors in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which might greatly help tourists and boost product use and market penetration. In terms of competitors, this shows the potential of Google Glass using Google Translate. 

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Docomo Vusix: Smart Glasses to Translate Languages 

NTT Docomo is the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan. The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase, "do communications over the mobile network", and is also from a compound word dokomo, meaning "everywhere" in Japanese.