A special guest visited teacher Jeanie Michaelis’ computer classes to give a presentation on Google Glasses on Oct. 22

Digital Media Director of Eagle Communications in Wamego, Matt Moody was given a pair of Google’s newest device, Google Glasses.

“I think it’s a cool innovation,” senior Colton Leiker said. “You don’t even use fingers anymore. It’s just across your eyes.”

The glasses are voice activated. To get them to work the voice key is “okay glass” then one can give the glasses a voice command such as “Google something” or “take a picture.”

The glasses are able to take photos, record videos, look things up on the internet using Google, translate and can share media to social media sites. If the glasses are hooked up to a cell phone they are able to make calls.

Moody’s glasses are just a prototype so he imagines that Google will continue to work on creating apps for it and improve it in other ways. The glasses may seem thin, but they are made of titanium so they don’t break very easily. There are also sunglass lenses that can be put over the regular lenses.

According to Moody, the glasses were available to him in orange, blue, black, white and gray.

He also said that the glasses take some getting used to, but after a while they are not blurry anymore. The screen appears three dimensional in front of a person’s eye on the right side.

“I think it’s cool that it is in 3D in front,” sophomore Morgan Elstun said.

The reason that Moody and other people from Eagle Communications received Google Glasses was mainly for getting coverage of severe weather. Some believe that it can be useful for many other things.

“It’s very convenient for parents with kids,” sophomore Nicole Dinkel said.  “They don’t even have to take out their phone anymore.”

According to Moody, the glasses will probably be released in beta within the first quarter of 2014 and will cost anywhere from $299 to $1500.

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