Gadgetory

we're here at Google's headquarters in New York City to see the company's project glass the wearable computing device that's been working on for a couple of years and nobody's really got the chance to play with I'm personally excited because I'll finally get to put it on and see what it's like for the first time ever people want to be connected and technologies enabled that but a problem is that it also that technology creates distractions and takes you out of the moment what we think about on the team is how to solve that problem how to get technology out of the way when you're doing activity but have it there when you need it so this is a fight against it like glancing added smartphone or you key part of us solving that problem is bringing technology closer to your senses now sort of a hunch we had that if we did that it would allow you to connect in a faster way but then a challenge we had and Isabelle is going to speak to this is the design challenge how do we get technology out of the way if you're going to wear something in your face how can you get technology out of the way when you don't need it I think when people see glass the big thing is like what is this weird object on everybody's face I mean it's they're not you call them glass but they're not glasses and there's obviously something else so what were the design challenges with making this thing real well I asked myself the same question you know 20 months ago when I first joined the team and I saw these people around I came into the office and they were wearing this so do you think I think it's actually prefer this to be honest with you to the new decide but but this is so this is the original prototype this is the stuff that everybody's messing around with it when you got there yeah and you know it freaked me out a little bit I have to say but at the same time you know the team is really really passionate about this idea and I could sense that and I could see the experiments that was going on and and I you know I finally could could wrap my head around this idea of that we need to you know remove technology but but still you know wear it a little bit it's oh I see what you really want is yeah I can see it fine it says okay glass 325 it's just come Oh record a video okay oh yeah and I can see so this is seeing what I'm seeing though like because it is a guy who have a desire to do that but I don't have to you don't have to you just live your life okay glass take a picture that's very I mean that's very cool so you've got this kind of one size fits all right now which is this is what glass looks like there are a lot of people the same people who kind of like they see 3d glasses and like I don't want to wear those and people who have to wear glasses for like I do we know what how do you try to meet that challenge I mean you've got a design here but we're talking about lots of people are very different they've got out you know prescriptions like how do you how do you battle that I mean this is okay this if I were sailing you know if I were gonna go sailing I might use the blue the sea breeze is that what they're called we might we're gonna talk about that I thought it was that was sky guy is what they're called I said sea breeze yeah it's much better we designed it in a way so that the components are off to one side and this frame you can remove it it's detachable from from the frame and its current form in this prototype it's there's a little screw here that you unscrew and you remove this frame and you can attach different kinds of frames and are you working with partners like Ray Ban for instance I mean I've actually talked to a lot of people and they're like are they going to do something with Ray Ban because obviously they're very popular are you talking to people like that building an ecosystem around this is very important to our strategy right now we're working on a reference model for the prescription lenses but we definitely want to partner with others okay glass Google when was the first Terminator made 1984 when does this become a retail product when can I go into Best Buy and buy it we are aiming on the team to actually have it out as a consumer product by the end of this year in 2013 2013 like to purchase yeah full regular people can particular people fully polished product we don't want this to be a niche thing we think this can help every human being and so we look forward to this being used by millions and millions of people doesn't seem weird to you that to get people having more human interactions we've reached a point where in order to you're saying I want people having more human experience and more human interactions that we have to augment ourselves with glass okay here we go Sergey for GPS hold on I just stopped it like an idiot okay glass Google nearby restaurants loading directions okay it's not telling me to cross the street have we done something wrong like if we screwed up so we're fundamental that you're like I just want to have a more human experience let me put on these robots on glasses it is a paradox and I think we continue to need to make it even better make it faster make it lighter you know this is just baby steps you