Indian Creates Google Glass Replica "Smart Cap" That Costs < Rs 4,500/-

Ambarish Ganesh

Ambarish Ganesh

@ambarish-PQyoXg Oct 23, 2024
Arvind Sanjeev, Chief Inventor and Founder of A.R.S. Devices, has developed 'Smart Cap'an augmented reality head-mounted display that works just like Google Glass, for less than $75 or Rs 4,500 within a month using open-source hardware. Arvind has even listed down the steps+hardware+software he employed to create the device on the blog DIY Hacking, so that anyone interested may go ahead and develop their version of the same. Arvind believes that while technologies like Google Glass and Oculus Drift are surely fueling the fad, they are quite expensive to use.

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In case you don't want to shell out $1500 to experience similar functionalities and want to create a similar device of your own, then the creator states that this DIY Head Mounted Display tutorial is what you need. Using this tutorial, he aims to show how one can develop one's head mounted, virtual reality or augmented reality displays from scratch. He then goes on to list down the steps he undertook to create the 'Smart Cap', a first of its kind. His system comprises a webcam for video sharing/recording and voice recognition to render a hands-free experience.

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During his engineering days, confesses Arvind, he wasn't able to understand how a calculator works and found it difficult to develop computer hardware. To make away from these discrepancies in knowledge transfer, he created the blog DIY Hacking to provide useful information/tutorial to students and hobbyists so they don't feel as lost as he did in college. It was in college where he created some veritable gadgets and systems in the connected devices genre, and the attention these projects got him was enough motivation for him to start his own company which later developed many product prototypes like RideSmart, etc.

To know more about the working of 'Smart Cap', check #-Link-Snipped-#. You can see Smart Cap in action below:

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  • Sarathkumar Chandrasekaran

    Sarathkumar Chandrasekaran

    @sarathkumar-FEGRPw Aug 20, 2014

    It's splendid. Hats off to him because he made it a open v source and a DiY.
  • avii

    avii

    @avii-TGGs8o Aug 20, 2014

    I really don't understand what's innovation here. There have been many similar projects. So whats this guy is doing new? Why is he being called innovator?

    The article mentions 'created', care to mention what has he created? please link me to the code he used, which he wrote by himself. Copying DIY projects online and doing them on your own is not innovation.

    lousy reporting by Crazy Engineers Staff. Just throw some buzz words and gather more page views. And yeah, add some pictures, cos thats what people see right?