Google
Glass is an effort to make computerized glasses with a touch screen as light as
sunglasses. Google employees have been testing the prototypes and running with
them to deliver first person experiences to friends. In other words, Google
Glass is accelerating the development of what used to be science fiction.
Google
Glass is real and will soon be shipping. Sergey Brin just took the stage at
Google I/O, won the Internet with an amazing skydiving demo of the device and
then announced that Google Glass is available for pre-ordering. Named Glass
Explorer Edition, it’s available to those at Google I/O and costs a whopping
$1,500. Plus, the device will not ship until next year. But Google Glass is
real. This is big.
Google
spent about 30 minutes explaining and showing off Google Glass at today’s I/O
keynote. But it was strange. The presentation wasn’t as polished as the
keynote’s other events. It felt off the cuff. As Sergey explained at the end of
the event, Google still doesn’t know all the use cases of Google Glass. The
company is still building not only the product, but also the philosophy behind
Glass. That’s why Google is making Glass available to those that really love Google.
It needs help.
Right
now Glass Explorer Edition is only for the US and the device is only available
for pre-order by I/O attendees. Sergey explained that there are some regulatory
issues to resolve prior to International shipping.
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I/O 2012 news:
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