Fidelity offers test version of Google Glasses app
- Fidelity has assets under management of %241.8 trillion
- Fidelity Labs created in 2005 to explore emerging technologies
Fidelity Investments offered a sneak peak of Fidelity Market Monitor for Glass, the first investing Glassware widely available for Google Glass.
For those not in the know, Google Glass is the tiny wearable computer that looks like an eyeglass frame. Glassware is software that runs off Google Glass.
Fidelity's Glassware will be able to display your portfolio on your Google Glass as well as offer up stock quotes. It can even zoom in on a corporate logo -- such as the sign outside Best Buy -- look up the ticker, and give a stock quote.
"Fidelity Labs is participating in a Google early developer program, and is working with a prototype of Google Glass to better understand the technology and how it may benefit our customers," the company says in a blog post at FidelityLabs.com.
Fidelity puts the number of people test-driving Google Glass with Fidelity's app -- the first from a financial services company -- in the "low 100s," says Hadley Stern, vice president at Fidelity Labs. About 10,000 people are participating in the test project.
Those who get to give Fidelity's Glassware a try will be able to provide feedback at Fidelitylabs.com, "a website and online community that highlights the work Fidelity Labs does with emerging technologies, and encourages visitors to engage in conversation about new financial services products and technologies," according to the company.
Fidelity is also keeping its eye on other wearable technology, says senior VP Sean Belka. "Our goal is to always be there for the customer," he says.