What is Google Glass?
Google Glass is a wearable computer with an optical head-mounted display that is being developed by Google in the Project Glass research and development project, with a mission of producing a mass-market ubiquitous computer. Google Glass displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free formant, that can communicate with the Internet via natural language voice commands. (Wikipedia)
See the video below to see it from a first-person perspective!
What does it do?
Using voice commands, Glass will do the following hands-free!
Basic functions:
- take a picture
- take a video
- Google information, pictures
- get directions
- make a call
- send a text message
- make a call
- make a video call (Google Hangouts)
Then there are several apps that you can load to utilize it even more!
- Post pictures to Facebook
- Post status/pictures to Twitter
- Cook using recipes onscreen
- Golf
- Listen to Google Play music
- Running/Biking
- YouTube
- text translator
- Evernote
- Games
- Stopwatch
- Breaking news from CNN or NY Times
How can I get one?
Right now, Google Glass is in beta-testing. You have to apply to be a part of the Glass Explorer program and be accepted. Glass is not available to the general public right now.
