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hello and welcome to inside scoop I'm Sumi das and joining me as Seth Rosenblatt senior writer for cnet Seth thanks for being with us thank you sue me okay so not too long ago we heard about these contact lenses that Google has developed that are supposed to monitor glucose levels intended for diabetics and then we have this new news from google which may make optometrists worried tell us the new news sure so Google is launching prescription lenses for a google glass for people who have the Explorer editions okay so that means that you don't have to wear Google glass on top of your regular prescription glasses we're gonna avoid that geeky situation yes that was good for nobody okay right so I mean we don't even know when the regular Google glass is gonna be available right we don't have a shipping date no they're making all these other kind of promises and offers and mm-hmm absolutely so one of the things that they're doing is they're now making it so that prescription lenses are available for google glass um the way it's going to work is that google glass ships with a particular frame sort of its default frame right and that's called the explorer edition huh and that's a $1,500 entry fee only only I know I keep that in my couch give me two and for another two hundred and twenty-five dollars you can buy one of the new four frames that they're releasing okay uh and these frames we have some choice there you do have some choice a little bit of style and these frames are designed to hold prescription lenses they ship with non prescription lenses okay last one get this felt so and then you can take them to go get them filled the benefit of this is that they don't look quite as weird as the original google glass frame which just sort of hangs there and sits on your head and floats and feels a little awkward the idea that google has is that people who wear glasses or who want to look like they wear glasses are more likely to wear glass if it comes with something that's more natural and since as a society we've been using glasses for 500 years or more this is not so unusual and they think people will take to google glass more comfortably and not just the wearer's but also people around them you wear prescription glasses I do you got your hands on these glasses did the new version so tell us what it feels like does it look any different is it kind of what you would expect that sort of like chip of yeah so you've got that that plastic thing that's still there right but because of the way that the frames are designed are made of out of titanium okay so they're they're very lightweight there there's a little bit of extra weight on the right side as you'd expect because that's where the computer and the glass hardware is but it's not terrible and I actually got used to it i would say in under 10 minutes it was I'm very sensitive about extra weight on my glasses I have these very lightweight frames and those frames were only a little bit heavier okay any additional functionality or is it just Google s and a pair of prescription glasses Google glass and a pair of prescription glasses they do have a deal with vsp the American I carriage my next question does my health plan cover this it might okay so the answer to that is maybe you get your glass you get your prescription frames you take them to an eye care professional you get your prescription filled vsp might cover the lenses and they might even cover part or the full cost of the frames so although it's 225 + whatever you have to pay for your prescription it may actually be covered depending on what your insurance plan is and do we know when these will be available yes these are currently available to any current google glass explorer but not to the general public not to the general public do we know when Google glass is gonna be available to the general public that's the other burn information sometime this year there are rumors google i/o there are rumors that there will be an announcement at Google i/o okay which is in May or June May or June um beyond that I would be surprised if they were available in there in June but i would expect an announcement by then alright well Seth thank you for keeping any time and I all right oh that hurt oh alright the four inside scoop I'm Stevie does thanks for watching you