{"id":53179,"date":"2014-01-28T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=53179"},"modified":"2014-01-28T09:01:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T05:01:43","slug":"google-glass-prescription-lenses-designer-frames-sunglasses","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/google-glass-prescription-lenses-designer-frames-sunglasses","title":{"rendered":"Mass Appeal: Google Glass Adds Prescription Lenses, Fashion Designer Frames, and Sunglasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 33px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/glass\/start\/assets\/img\/homepage\/homepage_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" \/>Google understands that if its cutting-edge Glass technology wants to have any hope of reaching the mainstream, it can&#8217;t make people look like hardcore tech geeks. It also needs to be as practical as possible.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>This is why the software giant is i<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/glass\/\" target=\"_blank\">ntroducing three new types of Glass models<\/a>: ones with prescription lenses, ones with fashion designer frames, and sunglasses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eneEmDtSvzI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The designer frames range from the hipster to the classic, while the sunglass options range from the trendy to the sporty; all in all, it&#8217;s a solid lineup of options that&mdash;aside of the still-very-obvious Google technlogy integration&mdash;makes Glass look almost normal and non-cyborgish.<\/p>\n<p>Google Glass is still running tests in limited-quantity pilots but the Silicon Valley company expects to launch it widely later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google understands that if its cutting-edge Glass technology wants to have any hope of reaching the mainstream, it can&#8217;t make people look like hardcore tech geeks. It also needs to be as practical as possible. This is why the software giant is introducing three new types of Glass models: ones with prescription lenses, ones with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-53179","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/53179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/53179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53179"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=53179"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=53179"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=53179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}