American Roddney Loges, from Occoquan (Virginia), has become the first traveler in the world to reserve a hotel room using Google Glass. The businessman is the first client of Hotel Near Me, the app developed by Destinia.com to search for and reserve a hotel. Loges booked a room at the Holiday Inn in Woodbridge (Virginia) for US$142.
“I needed to reserve a hotel nearby for some investors coming to visit me, and I was surprised how easy it was, literally in the blink of an eye,” said Loges, founder of the financing company One Degree Capital and confessed geek.
Hotel Near Me is the first application in the world for booking hotels through Google Glass. Once the app has been downloaded and installed on the Google Glass, it is ready to make hotel bookings.
Roddney Loges, founder of the financing company One Degree Capital and confessed geek: “I needed to reserve a hotel nearby for some investors coming to visit me, and I was surprised how easy it was, literally in the blink of an eye.”
Hotel Near Me quickly finds the closest hotel to the user, based on their GPS location. The user can navigate through other nearby hotels by swiping the Glass, and filter them according to price.
By tapping on the Glass, the user can see more information about the hotel, such as photos, services offered by the hotel and its exact location. It is also possible to use voice commands instead of gestures and to visualize the location of the hotel with augmented reality. Once the user has chosen an accommodation, they can use the Google Glass to make the reservation with Destinia.com. The app can even provide directions to the hotel.
“Wearable technology is going to revolutionize tourism in ways that we can only dream of today,” said Amuda Goueli, CEO of Destinia.com. The online travel agency is currently working on more cutting-edge travel services forthe Google Glass, as well as implementing a version of Hotel Near Mefor Android and IOS smartphones.
Hotel Near Me is the first application in the world for booking hotels through Google Glass.
Google Glass became available to the US public on May 15th at a price of $1,500 while the Hotel Near Me app is completely free.
“We were thrilled to already get the first reservation”, said AmudaGoueli, CEO of Destinia.com. “The wearable technology market is set to grow exponentially over the next few years and we aim to lead the travel sector in developing technology for it”, he added.
Destinia plans to add more functionality to the app, and is also developing an international version with multiple languages and currencies for the Android and iOS platforms on smartphones.
