Just spent an hour with Google Glass

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It was fun for about 5min, until I realised that I didn't actually NEED any of the functionality it offers. The speech recognition was very good for me, but completely refused to understand my girlfriend. I'm left with a slight headache and I can definitely feel my right eye has been strained :-/

The units all become VERY hot in use and are actually quite heavy. The contact speaker simply refused to transmit audio effectively to my skull.

Overall the device is quite intrusive despite sitting just above my field of view (an intentional position by Google).

The one application that was really good, was the augmented reality star finder... But again, a novelty not a function :-/

A nice experiment, but it's not a product.

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Thanks for the report. I expect I'd have a similar reaction if I were to try it. Where/how did you have the opportunity to give it a run?

Thom at OSNews had an interesting link/editorial on Google Glass recently as well.

Google were doing some select demos today and again tomorrow at Kings Cross in London, and my girl friend managed to get an invite, so we went and tried them out!

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How would you know if he was recording you?

Given the battery life is just under an hour, the chances are... You're not being recorded... Also it makes a crap Head Up Display, as you must focus on the display to read it.