Rodney Loges is the first person in the world to book a hotel using
wearable technology
The Hotel Near Me app is aimed
at tech savvy frequent travelers
June 9, 2014-. The American Roddney
Loges, from Occoquan (Virginia), has become the first traveler in the world to
reserve a hotel room using the Google Glass. The businessman is the first
client of Hotel Near Me, the
edge-cutting app developed by Destinia.com to search for and reserve a
hotel. Loges booked a room at the Holiday
Inn in Woodbridge (Virginia) for 142 dollars.
“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.
The app has only just been released on the website http://hotelnearme.com.
Users can find the closest hotels to their GPS position, see photos and hotel
information, filter by price and then book the hotel. The app can show a map of
how to get to the hotel and give directions right up to the front door. The user
can control the app either by swiping and tapping on the Google Glass or else
by using voice commands such as “book hotel”.
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 Amuda Goueli, 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.
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