The passengers who hopped a high speed train to southern France on Thursday were met by conductors bearing the latest piece of mobile technology: Google Glass.
The Paris conductors for the Béziers-bound train scanned passengers' tickets with handheld devices which then forwarded all the travel details to Glass, French daily Le Parisien reported.
(Sanjay d'Humieres/SNCF)
All the information then popped up before the conductor’s eye, with a green light appearing for those with valid tickets and a red one for those who didn’t have one.
For France’s state-owned railway SNCF, Thursday’s test is not necessarily the first step in a bigger problem. The bosses saw the trial as a one-off experiment.
But it is the second time in recent months France’s railway has giving Glass a whirl and there may be more.
In August SNCF experimented with a Glass app that allowed travelers to get English-language customer service while booking a ticket.
Here’s SNCF’s demonstration on how the app works:
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