Google Glass prescription frames and shades now being offered
The computerised, internet-connected goggles don't actually come with lenses. Starting this week, Google is offering an optional attachment for prescription lenses and new styles of detachable sunglasses.
Google Glass is getting glasses.
The computerised, internet-connected goggles don't actually come with lenses. Starting this week, Google is offering an optional attachment for prescription lenses and new styles of detachable sunglasses.
The move comes as Google prepares to make Glass available to the general population later this year. Currently, Glass is available only to the tens of thousands of people who are testing and creating apps for it.
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Glass is basically a small computer, with a camera and a display screen above the wearer's right eye. The device sits roughly at eyebrow level, higher than where eyeglasses would go.
It lets wearers surf the web, ask for directions and take photos or videos. Akin to wearing a smartphone without having to hold it in your hands, Glass also lets people read their e-mail, share photos on Twitter and Facebook, translate phrases while travelling or partake in video chats. Glass follows some basic voice commands, spoken after the words, "OK, Glass".