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I'm Bridget Carey and this is a special glass Explorer edition of CNN update as a Google glass Explorer I'll be testing out different uses for this wearable computer with a camera above the eye the glass becomes an easy way to record hands-free video and it's a cool way to capture sports from an athletes perspective but what can you do with glass that you can't do already with a GoPro well you can video chat on a Google+ Hangout so I wondered could I hang out with a coach virtually to get tips in real time I channeled my inner Katniss Everdeen and took glass to pro-line archery lanes in New York I reached out to coach up comm to find a coach and they connected me with MJ Rogers an archery coach in South Dakota who has worked with Olympic and Paralympic athletes I'm a beginner at archery so I hope coach Rogers could give me tips from the glass point of view well it took a little bit of playing around but I finally have coach MJ on my Google glass here and a hangout all right so what can I show you here once we connected I could see coach Rogers talking to me from his webcam but I had a hard time hearing him that's because the glass speaker touches your head and rest behind your ear it's a little echoey in here and your volume is so low and I can just volume my hair so I have to really pay attention to hear you so with people talking around me the audio from the speaker wasn't loud enough okay I can hear you if I really focus Google glass project director Steve Lee tells me that audio is something the glass team is working to improve but while at the range archers around me stop talking so I could hear with the camera right above my eye you don't exactly see what I'm seeing but coach Rogers said this was still a helpful perspective to judge how I'm holding the bow yeah it actually is a very interesting perspective because I then can see what you're looking at as far as the sight picture I'll just pull back yes well at least it got on the paper this time although it still would help to have a coach be there in person what you can't see away your feed on the fact that the foundation needs to be straight that your body needs to be straight that you're not you're not bending over trying to get someone to learn archery or any other sport it's missing you have to be able to see all of that if there was another camera off to the side that the person could see your placement where it's going and see your position then it would work off to the side we'll continue to bring you glass experiences as we spend more time with it if you have ideas on what else I should try with glass send an email to update it see Netcom or find me on Twitter I'm Bridget Carey thanks for watching