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welcome to the nighttime edition of the Google glass on a motorcycle if you want to see the daylight version go ahead and click the link in the upper left corner one thing you have to know while watching this video is that while the glass is inside my helmet all of its light is reflecting off the inside of my visor to understand better let's take a look at how the Google glass is built the main display light emits from the black portion here and most of the light is focused onto your eye through an angled display but since the glass itself is clear there is still light escaping from every side it does get a little distracting at night and I did not notice this as I was making my daytime video back on the motorcycle again the glass can be controlled by voice commands which is pretty cool you can start stop and change directions whenever you want the glass is always listening to your commands one cool command is that you can see a round overview at any point this pulls back from the normal navigation it shows you a top-down display of your route that you are traveling which is pretty useful when traveling in a new area as you can see the display is much more prominent at night than it is during the day partly because the display itself is so bright there is no outside light to shine through the other side of the glass which would help it become more translucent it is not a see-through at night as it is during the day keep in mind that this is not a direct recording at the Google glass itself this video took several cameras in a screencast to my note 3 to make a realistic rendition of how this glass actually works also keep in mind that the human vision will extend slightly past the edges of what this YouTube video portrays as I was driving around there was a few things going through my mind first of which was how dangerous this was a second of which was why there was so much light reflecting off the inside of my visor I explained part of the problem at the beginning of the video but north another source of light caught me off guard take a look at this lamp the light shines into the edge of the crystal and on the edge of the crystal is in front of your eye so even though the streetlight isn't in front of you the reflection or the refraction still manages to get in your way I did not notice this effect as I was driving around during the daytime anyway on a scale of things that I want to do every night riding a motorcycle with Google glass ranks at about a negative 7 don't get me wrong the Google glass is a fantastic piece of hardware it has a lot of potential and other aspects but from a motorcycle navigation perspective it is not a good match the dangers of Google glass outweigh the positives with the extra light reflecting off the inside of my helmet the screen blocking my blind spot and the general distraction of having a bright light shining in your eyes I don't recommend using the glass while riding not to mention the current price tag 1500 bucks is a little steep for a GPS but that price is bound to drop as soon as the glass is officially released I will put a link in the video description below for current Amazon pricing so check that out anyway thanks for watching if you have any questions make sure to leave in the comments below and don't forget to subscribe feel free to share this with any other motorcycle friends who would also be interested to see how the Google glass looks at night thanks for watching