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Amazon Poaches Google Glass Pioneer

  • The Drum, Tuesday, July 15, 2014 8:59 AM
It would appear Amazon is looking to develop its early moves in to optical recognition with news it has poached the pioneer of Google Glass, Babak Parviz. There has been no official word on Parviz's new role at Amazon but he is well known for working on smart optical systems. Amazon's new Fire smartphone will launch in the US next week with a Firefly feature which recognises objects and provides further information on them, including a link to buy it from Amazon.

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