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Live skydiving with Google's glasses - CNET News

2012-06-27
we've got something pretty special for you it's a little bit time-sensitive so I apologize for interrupting you've seen some really compelling demos here they were slick they were robust this is gonna be nothing like that this can go wrong at about 500 different ways so tell me now who wants to see a demo of glass so the unit I actually really want to show you I went to a friend and and he's gonna be here momentarily he's actually pretty close by he's just about a mile overhead right now those buddies hey we're just down here in Moscone I got a few thousand people here I was hoping to to maybe get that unit I let you down here and I thought maybe you guys could show us a fun time on the way down yeah you can hear me down there I've been listening to your speech through the Hangout it's pretty cool all right this thing actually all right I see the roof of Moscone there so if you guys can you know be safe but get it down here in a hurry for us we'd love to watch that okay yeah you'll have to stand by we've got our ring suits so we've got a pretty good range it's kind of interesting people have watched us fly and many times before but I don't think that the world's ever tagged a long live for arrived I mean where nobody really knows the outcome of this jump we're feeling really common well we're we're for you what do you guys think should they go for it about one minute for ego maybe you got to entertain the crowd a little now let's leave you down it looks like a long way down sideways it's tough yeah yeah so this is one of the things as we've been experimenting with glass just the ability to really share and we've posted some pictures but as we start to experiment being able to share what you're seeing live is really amazing and you know we're not we don't know what's gonna happen here I you know these guys are all really good they're trained and have great contents but this is all right doors open doors open all right happy flight you know nice and close in there hey they've got to get the right place so they can hit the roof I'm gonna record take a few pictures to record this for posterity and they're flying look at that look at that you can see Moscone right below there live hangout through Google glass the four skydivers and at the under canopy chutes are open okay where's Nick Nick hey look this is a hangout on air so it's a little bit tricky landing on a building as you might imagine I know if you ever tried this kind of thing before but you could you can see all their perspectives now they're gonna have to line up one after another to get down to the roof here it's a little bit of it's a pretty big roof back choice which is great for their landing and you can see there's there's a little yellow arrow that they're aiming for you know it's very exciting hopefully they they land it all right and they're coming in first ones coming in all right so hey folks thank you whoo-hoo okay so the roof is a little bit big there so it would take a while to run down the length of it so you got actually a few bikers up there for this eventuality we got them wearing glass too and there's a little package let's see if we can see if we can get it here in the hurry all right here we go first-person view of glass here the bikers yeah I come down and you know there's only one good way down the side of a building it's pretty high up there if you haven't been up there before don't try this at home kids these are trained professionals all right no no okay close call sorry about that so this is pretty wild I did never seen that perspective before and I'm really looking forward to sorry we got a couple more bikes a little bit of a long way Oh Jess don't run anybody over all right please stay in your seats folks don't get into the aisles please keep the aisles fair here they come up yeah Oh
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