Google Glass: a new app for detecting human emotions

New Google Glass software helps to detect someone's gender or age and assess emotional states in real time Have you ever thought about how you feel, how the person you're talking to feels, or even how your significant other feels? A new app called Glassware can help to detect a person's gender or age and assess emotional states in real time. The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits has adapted its sophisticated face recognition engine for Google Glass, the technological glasses by Google.   The SHORE app by Glassware can process the video flow captured by the glasses' integrated camera. To soothe privacy concerns about monitoring people without their knowledge through face recognition software, Fraunhofer promises that the data collected and processed by the software stays in the glasses' local memory and are never shared with service management servers. Fraunhofer said that the technology required "years" of development and uses a "highly efficient" library of data constructed on the C++ programming language for human face analysis.   SHORE could be used to superimpose real-time images over the information processed by the software: this means that, thanks to the display in front of the wearer's eye, the information processed by the program can be visualized at the side of the person in front of you, helping you to understand in real-time if the subject is happy or sad, male or female, young or old. The organization announced that it developed the application to help with communication and could be used by people with autism or who find it difficult to read emotions. The Institute underscores also that its app could be used for market analyses and other more commercial uses. The SHORE app is not available for downloading, not even by developers with Google Glass. It is not clear if and when the app will be made public. In the meantime, you can watch the video below to see the app in action.