Google Unveils Prototype ‘Smart’ Glasses

Google sought to leapfrog rivals like Apple and Microsoft on Wednesday as it unveiled an ambitious prototype of a pair of “smart” glasses designed to replace many of the things currently done on a smartphone, such as sharing pictures and accessing information.

The move came as the search company also joined the hardware wars that are currently rocking the consumer technology industry, showing off the first tablet to carry its brand and a living room entertainment device designed and built by the internet company from the ground up.

Google said that an early version of its new glasses would be shipped to a limited number of software developers early next year, adding weight to the company’s attempts to reposition itself as an audacious innovator at a time when its size and bureaucracy is under attack from smaller, more nimble companies including Facebook.

Google Glass, which has been in development for two and a half years, boasts a tiny display, worn like regular spectacles but sitting just above the right eye, to show information gathered from the internet and the local environment. A bundle of sensors, microphones, speakers, cameras and wireless connections allows the wearer to both send and receive sound and images as they go about their daily lives.

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