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hey what is up guys I'm Kay PhD here we are back and this is Google glass now something that a lot of people ask when you know you go out and walk around with this thing on your face a lot of people ask the same set of questions one what is glass what is that thing on your face - what does it do and 3 what does it look like while you're wearing it what do you see through glass so that any further ado let's go ahead and take a look first of all this here this exact model that we're looking at is the Explorer edition of Google glass that's a bit more important than a lot of people realize basically this is not the final version of the product there will be an evolution in software and hardware before an actual consumer edition is created in fact there's been several software updates already but for now the Explorer edition is a limited edition early version for people willing to go out and explore and give feedback for Google about glass aesthetically it's a pretty interesting little device because it sits on your face like a regular pair of glasses but well there are no actual lenses there's no glass in Google glass except for this prism here and the other thing about it that's different is its asymmetrical so typically when you're wearing glasses there's the same thing on both sides with glass all of the smartphone components and all the things in Google glass that make it what it is are all on your right hand side now while glass does have mostly smartphone insides what it doesn't have is a cellular radio which means it can't connect to data by itself so what it does do is connect to either Wi-Fi or Bluetooth tethering to your smartphone and connect to the my glass app on your Android or iOS device and that's very important because without it you wouldn't be able to do anything on glass unless we had a device with you connected to it so this is really what's going to power glass and make it do all that it does when it connects to the internet and pulls any sort of data so how does it actually look to be looking through the actual prism in Google glass well google says that it's supposed to look approximately like a 25 inch display from 8 feet away so if you have a 25 inch computer monitor back up your share roll back 8 feet away and that's about what it'll look like now it's obviously not an HD display in fact it's around 640 by 360 but the idea here is that this is all that you look at when you interface with Google glass so it's pretty important essentially it's a square that is fixed in the upper right side of your vision it's not in the corner it's not totally crazy like hard to reach stretch with your eyes bad but it's definitely out of the way so it's not going to be intruding your vision all the time so looking through the prism it'll look about like that that's about right so when wearing glass natively glass by itself can do 7 things with it you can do 7 things and take a picture record a video navigate somewhere send a message call someone hangouts and Google let's not forget that this is the like we said the Explorer edition of Google glass not the final consumer version so the list of things that it can do is limited but the idea here is that this is a new form factor this is the beginning of a new sort of paradigm we have Android phones that's one form factor we have android tablets that's another form factor we'll have a whole bunch of smartwatches soon that's another form factor glass which is a wearable tech on your face is a totally different form factor so think of this as sort of like an Android phone with no apps on it out of the box it can do you know sort of core set of functions and that's normal for an Android phone that's a small list of things that can do out of the box but once you add an app store once you add the connectivity that a whole bunch of developers and a developer are me kind of support that list of things is going to get a lot longer and a lot more interesting there are a few officially supported third-party apps right now for glass you know Twitter Facebook there's a New York Times out for sort of popup news alerts but in the glass Explorer community there's a whole bunch of developers doing a thing and making a ton of different apps for glass and of course when there's a final release where pretty much anyone can develop for and anyone can buy it that sort of mainstream apps are kind of a no-brainer expect to see a youtube app an Instagram app these kind of things are pretty much undoubtedly going to comforting glass when it's finally available for everyone but back to those seven things those seven functions of Google glass are really not all that different from the core functions of an Android phone without any apps installed if you bought a nexus 4 and never use anything in the Play Store you'd get a pretty similar list of things that you can do with it out of the box but again like we said this is the Explorer edition many more things are going to be at now for a brief rundown of these seven okay and we go through all seven of these things first of all all these things are going to be done with an interaction with the trackpad on the side of glass so there's a swipe forward backward down and a tap and this actually feels pretty natural with the sort of light tapping and not really bashing it against your own head but you're just doing slight swip swipes and light taps and things like that and that feels normal number one you can take pictures so you can say okay glass take a picture or if you don't want to do that at all you can just tap that photo button that's on top of glass and I just took a picture view the camera and the light so that's what you look like right now and if I want to take a video that's an function of glass of course you can say okay glass record a video and you'll start recording a video or you can actually hold down the photo button on the top of glass and you automatically start taking a ten second video so you're going to start looking at what I'm seeing which is basically a bunch of lights and a microphone but uh yeah that's what it looks like to take a video with glass it's automatically going to take a ten second video so if you want to extend it you have to tap the photo button again and you'll get like an unlimited recording time until like the battery dies until you stop recording the photo and video quality are really pretty good and this is one of the defining features of what makes a glass so special because it's basically a first-person look at what song is actually doing now it's a little bit above your field of vision so if you were like handheld gaming or something like that you kind of have to look down a little bit to get it in your field of view I found the most part though most of the things that I do with glass are pretty amazing and you would never be able to get any sort of camera angle like that doing anything else especially because you have both your hands-free which is cool the video quality is also really good because it's such a wide-angle lens it uses very similar optics that the Galaxy Nexus did but that doesn't stop it from being really quite good and also the photos that I took again from that first-person view we're really good because it takes a burst of I think ten different shots of a bunch of different exposures and gets a really nice high dynamic range shot and again that combined with the wide-angle makes it look a lot like what you would see out of the human eye so it's really really close to first-person view of what regular people look at so the third thing glass does is walking directions driving it's just navigation with Google Maps so you can say okay glass get directions to and then say wherever you want to go be an H for example and it'll give you the directions and an actual real-time arrow where you would be going on glass with you know the directions to where you're going you can do walking navigation biking navigation and driving navigation and I think this is actually probably the most awesome of the built-in features in class because if you're in an unfamiliar place now you don't really know where you're going you move your head around you get to see the exact direction of the orientation of the arrow change you can just literally follow the arrow in glass to get where you're going and that's really powerful stuff now four and five you can send a message or place a call using glass and that's because it's heathered to your phone with the my glass app so you have a certain list of your starred contacts that you can dial whenever you want so you can say ok glass send a message to John I'll be late I'm in traffic see you in 20 minutes or okay glass call John and it'll start calling that person so you have to have that person start already in order to make a call to them otherwise it would be kind of crazy to search through your whole Android contacts library but that's pretty cool hands-free you could be you know totally you know busy with your hands and not have any sort of control over your smartphone and still place a call someone or send a message if it's important number six last but definitely not least is the Google search and Google now now you guys already know how Google search works so I can say ok glass Google how long is the Golden Gate Bridge and you guys already know basically how Google search works but it'll read the answer back to me the Golden Gate Bridge is eight thousand nine hundred and eighty feet two thousand seven hundred thirty seven meters if that matters to you so you already know how that works and it works the same way that it does with Google now on your phone but Google now on your phone also gives you sort of predictive search results and gives you relative relative relevant information wherever you go glass will do the same thing so you can swipe through the glass interface and view all this information where you'll need to know you know either whether where you are some translation data if you're in a different country all kinds of different crazy things the same way Google now on your phone would do at the bottom line with the glasses for addition is this this is not the final version this is not where you're going to be able to buy in a few weeks or months when there's a final version available the final version is going to have updated hardware is going to have updated software and it's going to have an updated price because right now the Explorer edition costs fifteen hundred dollars in the United States for all glass explorers hopefully it will be nowhere near fifteen hundred dollars when it's finally mass-produced it will hopefully be way less than half of that but go ahead and leave what you would pay for Google glass like this in the comments section below that like button I feel like a lot of people would probably max out at around five hundred dollars maybe less maybe four hundred or three hundred but we don't know what the price is going to be but this is a Google glass Explorer edition I'll have more videos on this to come I have a lot more content that I want to show you guys regarding glass and a whole bunch of other tech stuff but if you enjoyed this one definitely feel free to give a thumbs up below and be sure to subscribe to see more glass coverage and more tech videos like this thank you for watching and I'll talk to you guys in the next one basically you