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Sometimes, your program director presents you with fun gadgets and says, “Here. Figure this out.” That’s how we got our hands (and eyes!) on a set of never-been worn Google Glass. While there have been talks about new Google Glass coming in the near future, for now, Google Glass remains a vestigial relic of the not-too-distant past. Were they not up to consumer standards? Was the world just not ready for smart glasses? We wanted to find out exactly what Google Glass were all about and what would happen when we took the Glass to the street (and the classroom).<\/p>\n

\"GoogleGlass\"

Above: The Original Google Glass<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n

Amanda used her phone to set up the glass with minimal difficulty and only one call to customer service. Then she put them on and began playing, quickly learning the basics of Glass manipulation \u2013 you can talk, tap, or gesture (wink!) to activate them \u2013 before teaching the techniques to Sara.<\/p>\n

The most fun feature, by far, is the camera. You can set the Glass to take a picture with a wink. When we introduced other people to our Google Glass, this was the feature they loved, too. It makes taking photos easy, provided the wink calibration is set correctly. (This is very important. It is also important to learn not to tilt your head when you wink; this was more difficult to learn.) Sometimes you could accidentally activate the camera in the course of normal conversation, leading to a few unplanned, and hilarious, photographs of people looking at us perplexedly. (A few of our Glassterpieces can be seen at the end of this post.)<\/p>\n

\u201cDid you just take a picture?\u201d we asked each other when we began to recognize the distinctive chime from the Glass\u2019 camera. And then, \u201cCould you take a picture?\u201d of a road sign, an interesting conference slide, a musical performance. Hundreds and hundreds of photos later, we had somehow eaten through a few GB of a data plan just by backing our pictures up to Google Photos. (We learned our lesson: don\u2019t let phone pair with Glass until you\u2019re on wifi.)<\/p>\n

The scarcity of the Glass in everyday society made them something of a wonder to people we encountered: \u201cAre those Google Glass?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

People stopped us to ask this question everywhere we went from a street corner near Boston\u2019s Charles Station to a Northampton classroom at the Voices of Change conference, and on almost every bus in between. The moral here? If you like to meet people, become a cyborg.<\/p>\n

Before the conference, we discussed the etiquette of always-on wearable recording technology. What about privacy concerns? We talked about wearing buttons that warned people of our wearable, arguing our flair count would reach maximum levels.<\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t end up making buttons, and as it turned out, we never needed them. The Glass were obvious. They\u2019re in<\/span> on your face. On our last day in Boston, we visited the 2015 Design Biennial. As we stood on a sunny street corner, waiting to cross to the Rose Kennedy Greenway, a man asked us, \u201cAre those Google Glass?\u201d Yes. He immediately followed with, \u201cAre you recording right now?\u201d No, we assured him. We\u2019d found there were subtle ways Google Glass let you know it was recording \u2013 you could hear the trill of a picture being snapped and, as we told our new friend, \u201cYou\u2019d know if we were recording because you can see the screen light up.\u201d The traffic light changed, and we crossed the street to photograph (read: wink at) an art exhibit in the park.<\/p>\n

Later that day, we boarded a bus for Boston Logan Airport. Behind us, we heard a father explaining Google Glass to his son and daughter. They had noticed we were wearing Glass. Overhearing their conversation, we turned around and offered to let them try the Glass for themselves, instructing the children to tilt their head upward, a gesture-code to the Glass to activate it and show the time on the screen. The family seemed impressed by the technology, but as we discussed with them, there isn\u2019t a whole lot you can actually do with them.<\/p>\n

In the end, Google Glass is fun, but the design and technology wasn\u2019t quite there. They are good for documentation \u2013 taking pictures and video \u2013 and can send messages to contacts, but only if those contacts contact you first. Additionally, the lack of hinges on the glasses frame makes the Glass cumbersome to carry with you, unless you\u2019re wearing them, but recent reports suggest the next prototype (seen below) will fix this issue.<\/p>\n

The Glass\u2019s biggest strength for us was their power to start conversations. Especially at an international conference where we were hoping to network with scholars and practitioners from around the world, the Glass provided us with more ways to begin and engage in conversations with new people.<\/p>\n

Is the world ready for smart glasses? Based on our experience, yes, but maybe the original Google Glass wasn\u2019t quite ready for the world. We eagerly await Google\u2019s next move.<\/p>\n

Click here\u00a0more information on Google Glass 2<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Here are\u00a0a few pictures from our time with Google Glass:<\/p>\n

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