Here’s What Life Will Look Like When You Wear Google’s Project Glass

(9:35 am PDT, Feb 20th)

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When we first saw Google’s Glass project, we were fairly skeptical that A) it would work as advertised, B) not make you look like some maxiod cyberborg super dweeb. We still have reservations about both of those problems, but using Project Glass looks freaking awesome.

Google just released a video this morning that shows what the UI is going to look like for people who are willing to shell out $1500 for some fancy Google branded eyeglasses. I could describe all the magical features for you, but here, just watch the video below:

Project Glass doesn’t have a release date, but attendees of Google’s 2012 I/O conference were allowed to preorder them for $1500 so they can develop apps for it as soon as they’re released.

According to the new Google Glass webpage, the Glasses will come in five colors – charcoal, tangerine, shale, cotton and sky, which is just pretentious design speak for black, orange, grey, white and blue.

If you don’t want to wait for the future, you can apply for Google’s new Explorer program and hope that you get chosen to pay for the $1500 Glasses early. All you have to do is tweet a 50 word application describing what you would do if you had Google Glasses. You can add 5 photos to the application, and share a 15 second video, just make sure the tweet starts with #ifihadglass.

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  • http://twitter.com/goodvillenews Goodville news

    ok, glass, this is weird and using it is little bit without privacy. Talking to glass all the time like weirdo

  • Kohler Family

    Heavy on video recording which I can do with a go-pro cam for half the price. Hope it does more augmented reality type of stuff.

  • http://twitter.com/cyberbotro cyberbotro

    BFD. It records video and pics, shows weather and navigation. I rather have heads-up display for my car since I need to wear real glasses

  • josephz2va

    A little pointless if they keep changing the UI to spend $1,500 then the glasses are outdated. I remembered the glasses had a different UI last year.

  • http://twitter.com/parmarash Ash Parmar

    How does that work if you wear prescription glasses full time?

  • http://twitter.com/Markiezy Mark Bradley

    Am I the only one that thinks these glasses are UGLY? A plus they want to charge $1500? I rather buy some Tom Ford glasses and have my iPhone do whatever this nerdy glasses do.

  • NutjobNumber1

    I’m wondering how many problems these things are going to cause in terms of people wearing them when they interact with others that don’t want to be recorded? If someone came up to me wearing these, I would ask them to remove them while we are having a discussion or simply walk away. If I were a business owner, I wouldn’t allow these things in the work place. In this day and age, I wouldn’t doubt it if people get these things taken away from them from kids that don’t have much money. Kind of like those expensive Nike shoes that get people beat up over. I just see too many problems. I just don’t think Google has thought this one out enough.

    Plus, how come Larry Page and Eric Schmidt don’t wear these things around like Sergey Brin? Don’t they like them? IF the CEO and Chairman of the Board don’t have these things glued to their head, that means they’re not good enough or have a need for them. I would wonder about that. Then I would wonder how many employees at Google wear them and how much time they have around their heads. I just don’t see it. I would question the relevence of these things.

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Buster HeineBuster Heine is Cult of Android's Social Media Editor. Hailing from Roswell, New Mexico, but now spending his days in Phoenix, Arizona, he wastes most of his time eating burritos and reading spanish romance novels.  Twitter: @bst3r.

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