Gadgetory

alright so here we go we're going to go ahead and put on the glass aw it's just a little bit weird because this is my first time ever and I've been very not too sure what to think yet but here we go whoa that's it that's the best that's the best reaction you can have them when we put it on so these glass that our friend Peter let us use are obviously set up to turn themselves off when it understands that it's not on somebody's head which means it's it's not horizontal like this once you put it on it displays the glut at the time it did just time out so what I'm gonna do is look up look back down it is very non-obtrusive it's not too heavy it doesn't weigh your head down at all and of course to activate it you look up then back down and you see the time right in your periphery if I look forward I can see everybody everything is still clear but in my periphery I just have this little piece that shows the information I don't look up again it's got 12 28 ok glass ok glass Google Android Authority take a picture and what it does is it takes a picture of everything I see that I'm looking at like they like we kept saying the moscone Wi-Fi is a little weird down here so right now it is looking through google you don't have to close your left eye in order to get there actually it works just fine if you just kind of look this way so yeah there it is android authority it does have the bone conduction speaker so it is reading to me what's going on now if I tap it here what you can do is on the side here is a little they don't want to call it touch screen because it's not a screen but it is a touchpad so you can can kind of go vertically and get more android authority stuff showing me a Google+ post that we did showing me chris smith's post so a lot of cool stuff about android authority now if you swipe down like this it does go back to the ok glass so you obviously have to get used to it because the head motion makes you need to reactivate it and the timeout the time out time is actually pretty short so let's say it again ok glass get directions to palomino San Francisco there you go palomino restaurant on spear street from going tonight all right so going back down and we're just coming back to the front and I'm just going to go through it shows me the picture that we just took android authority the search you just did and a couple of the posts that Peter made it's an interesting technology I see that it has a lot of benefit day to day the problem with that right now is that Google needs to develop their services a little bit more if i were really really busy used google now a lot for reminders and things like that this would have a lot of benefit it also has a lot of benefit when you're in i would say metropolis kind of like San Francisco when I'm walking around things will pop up photo spots you know or if you're going to your movie things will pop up like that that's where I see the benefit to it so first impressions is a it is it is a very nice device when you first put it on you think some of my friends out there will say it looks like a decode a decoder from Dragon Ball Z so you know it's over 9000 stuff like that but really it's it is unobtrusive I can imagine myself wearing this for a long period of time without my ears and my head and my nose starting to like kind of feels sore from it because it is very very lightweight and that's cool coming to IO you see everybody well not everybody but a lot of people wearing Google glass and it might look a little bit odd at first but once you try it out yourself you realize just like many products that are in their early stages this is a product made for its potential right now it's all about potential and I see the potential being pretty immense imagine traveling and when you're looking up at a sign that isn't a language that you don't know maybe you snap a picture of it or in real time it'll just start to translate it for you that would be really great the voice recognition is really good Peter was right it does seem to work very well so if you're talking to somebody and it picks up what they're saying then you'll get the translation right away so all of those all of those things all of those features that were hoping come for glass it's it is really up to the developers and that's why it's something like Google i/o exists so that the developers can really get in touch with these products and learn what would be great for you and I think that's really awesome about google glass it's a great example of what starting from the beginning and you get to see the progression how important something like that is for kind of the average person right now there's not a lot of benefit once they build it out and we do have to thank people like Peter who is an early adopter of glass because his kind of his work will get us to where it needs to be so we thank Peter for all his work and all the explorers for all their work because without them this won't go anywhere honestly for me I could see myself using it once it becomes a little bit more robust but the way it is right now it's more or less something I would use for fun I suppose but certain applications like getting directions to somewhere or getting a quick status update or giving a quick picture online I do think that's a cool that's really cool as well so guys this is nate swanner from google i/o 2013 i have peters glass probably not giving them back I don't know how that's really going to work out but we'll see thanks guys so yeah that's just a quick demo of google glass we want to thank peter once again for giving us his time and for allowing us to try it on ourselves and as always it's android authority your source for all things android and we'll see you from google i/o the second day of the conference