Razelle Breuner
Rogue Element
I N S I G H T
Smart Glasses
- Intent: Someone referenced smart glasses in a recent MoS thread and I felt our girls deserved some.
- Image Source: Genie Gadgets - "Cyber Vizor"; color editing provided by [member="Scherezade deWinter"]
- Canon Link: N/A
- Primary Source: Corvus-type chronometer
- Manufacturer: Confederacy of Independent Systems
- Affiliation: The Confederacy | Ministry of Secrets
- Model: Insight-Type Smart Glasses
- Modularity: Available in a variety of styles
- Production: Limited
- Material: Transparent aluminum, circuitry, the usual suspects
- Hands-free datapad, controlled using advanced eye-tracking
- Augmented reality HUD
- Video and audio recording
- Links to MoS-issued Crovus spy watch, providing some protection from attached jamming suite
- Discrete but super snazzy design
- Like Google Glass, but cooler: A single pair of Insight glasses is a fully functional computer, if fairly simple. Using hands-free eye tracking controls, Insight glasses can display mission-critical information, analyze recorded footage, and transmit relevant information back to MoS analysts. The glasses have a relatively small hard drive, but it's plenty beefy to host every mission-relevant document and uplink to a local Ministry operational network.
- Perfect Pair: Insight glasses were designed with cross-functionality in mind. Each set can be linked to a single Crovus-type chronometer, allowing for hands-free controls of some of the watch's functions, like the encrypted comlink. More importantly, this uplink process protects the linked glasses from being scrambled from that specific watch's jamming suite. It offers no protection against other Crovus jammers.
- EMP: While shielded well against the background radiation of most planets, there's simply not enough space in these glasses to fit proper EMP or ion shielding. Even a light charge will short them out for minutes at a time, and stronger currents might simply fry them outright.
- Wonky Controls: Controlling an entire computer with just your eyes brings with it a certain innate clumsiness. While the eye-tracking interface is smooth and reliable enough at rest, studies have shown that the software has difficulty keeping up with the frantic pace of high-stress situations. As a consequence, it's recommended that agents not try to use these glasses in a combat zone.
Discrete and functional: two words that describe both the sophisticated utility watch that christened the Ministry of Secrets' maiden voyage, and now its sister design. After a few weeks in the field and a few operable missions it was clear that the Project GARUDA watch would live up to all of its design expectations, but it was also clear that those expectations had been largely aggressive. Computer spikes, vehicular slave circuitry, jammers...all of these things are wonderful offensive tools in the war of espionage, but none of them provide agents with their best defensive tool: information. MoS R&D has elected to remedy this shortcoming.
Enter the Insight-type smart glasses, a datapad designed as a pair of discrete (but fairly stylish!) eyewear for Ministry field agents. With hands-free controls provided by an eye-tracking interface, Insight glasses can link with a specific Crovus-type chronometer to transmit and receive mission-critical information using the watch's encrypted comm access. An on-board video and audio recording suite allows an agent to relay whatever they witness back to Ministry analysts.
An important side-effect: a pair of Insight glasses, once linked to an agent's biometric-coded watch, can protect several of its functions from the Crovus' jammer functionality. While communications are still scrambled, the glasses' audio and visual functions are protected from that specific watch's jamming field. R&D predicted that might be relevant if, say, an agent was jamming security cameras within a protected room, but wanted to record what they saw inside.
Preliminary field testing has shown that, combined with the Crovus watch, Insight glasses can improve agent field effectiveness by as much as 12%. They've been slated for field testing within the month.
