Prototype Google Glasses spotted in the wild - CNET

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Prototype Google Glasses spotted in the wild - CNET Apr 6th 2012, 05:36 Robert Scoble (left) with Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who was spotted sporting a prototype pair of the Web giant's augmented reality eyeglasses. Sergey Brin was spotted this evening sporting a pair of Google Glasses, the augmented-reality specs the Web giant is working on. Brin was photographed with a prototype pair of the eyeglasses this evening at a charity event in San Francisco by alert tech evangelist Robert Scoble. "The Google Glasses are real! Here is a set on @sergeybrinn cofounder of Googl @ Palace Hotel, San Francisco," Scoble wrote, including the picture in a Twitter post. "They look very light weight. Not much different than a regular set of glasses," he wrote in another tweet. But that is as close as Brin would let Scoble get to his specs, Scobble wrote in another tweet: Sergey wouldn't let me wear the Google Glasses but I could see they were flashing info to him. I so want one of these! — Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) April 6, 2012 Google finally acknowledged yesterday that it was working on eyeglasses that could stream data to the wearer's eyes in real time. Google posted a video on YouTube showing someone wearing the glasses as he made his way around variety of Manhattan venues, receiving up-to-the-minute updates as information streamed into his glasses. The video showed an Oakley-like metallic glasses frame curves around a person's forehead and is held up with nose pads. On the right of the frame was a thin device, presumably a small computer, and translucent screen just above and to the right of the right eye. Word of the special glasses -- being touted by the company as Project Glass -- has apparently been a bit of an open secret for months on the Web giant's Mountain View, Calif., campus. Rumors began to spread last December that Google was working on high-tech glasses with a wearable head-up display that could tap into cloud-based location services and detail users' surroundings. Google's futuristic heads-up display glasses (photos) 1-2 of 11 Scroll Left Scroll Right This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.

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