Google built a version of its Android operating system specifically for watches, with the hope that it will achieve success similar to Android for smartphones.
Conceptually, the Android Wear software looks like an extension of the software that Google built for Glass, Google's smart glasses released a year ago.
Android Wear will deliver notifications to the watch without you having to dig around too much for them. It will also respond to voice commands. Both are things Google is already pretty good at.
But Android Wear promises to take things one step further when it comes to contextual awareness: It won't just alert you to texts and emails or navigate you in the right direction, which some wearables already do.
A conceptual video made by Google shows and Android Wear watch providing a woman with her airline boarding pass when she arrives at the gate and a jellyfish warning for surfers just before they get their boards out of a truck.
Essentially, it will be Google Now -- Google's contextual information service -- on your wrist.
This approach to software is a promising move for Google and for wearables in general. Also encouraging is that it seems like Google is not trying to replicate smartphone features on a smaller device. Instead, Android Wear apps will identify the specific features that might work better on your wrist.
Source : Tempo
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