X

Google Glass Explorer Edition (pictures)

Google's Explorer Edition has emerged as the biggest hit of the 2012 Google I/O. Take a closer look as an attendee wears them for CNET.

Edward Moyer
Edward Moyer is a senior editor at CNET and a many-year veteran of the writing and editing world. He enjoys taking sentences apart and putting them back together. He also likes making them from scratch. ¶ For nearly a quarter of a century, he's edited and written stories about various aspects of the technology world, from the US National Security Agency's controversial spying techniques to historic NASA space missions to 3D-printed works of fine art. Before that, he wrote about movies, musicians, artists and subcultures.
Edward Moyer
20120627_Rafe_Project_Glass_001_610x470.jpg
1 of 10 Stephen Shankland/CNET
CNET writer Rafe Needleman checks out an image of fireworks on Google co-founder Sergey Brin's Project Glass spectacles. Brin passed his pair around to several journalists after his elaborate Project Glass presentation at Google I/O 2012 in San Francisco.
20120627_Shankland_Project_Glass_001.jpg
2 of 10 Sergey Brin
CNET reporter Stephen Shankland gets his turn with Brin's specs.
20120627_Google_I-O_Project_Glass_001_1.jpg
3 of 10 Stephen Shankland/CNET
Google co-founder Sergey Brin touts the Project Glass computerized glasses at the Google I/O show.
20120627_Google_I-O_Project_Glass_005_1.jpg
4 of 10 Stephen Shankland/CNET
During an elaborate publicity stunt for the glasses at the Google I/O developers confab, a cyclist rides down the aisle wearing the computerized spectacles, which are filming the goings-on from his point of view. Various POV shots, including those culled from the glasses worn by a group of skydivers, were shown live on screen at the event, as the various parties converged on the Moscone convention center.
20120627_Google_I-O_Project_Glass_003.jpg
5 of 10
Here are a couple of those skydivers we talked about, as seen by another member of the Project Glass-wearing group. You can see the San Francisco Bay in the background, and in the foreground, lower left, you can see Brin looking up at the live footage on a large screen at S.F.'s Moscone convention center.
20120627_Google_I-O_Project_Glass_004.jpg
6 of 10
And here's what one of the Project Glass-wearing skydivers saw on the way down toward the roof of the Moscone Center In S.F., where Sergey Brin and the rest of the crowd at Google I/O was watching the footage projected on a large screen.
20120627_Google_I-O_Project_Glass_002.jpg
7 of 10 Stephen Shankland/CNET
Another view of Brin with the San Francisco Bay in the background. You can watch the video of the dramatic publicity stunt here.
google-glass-6078.jpg
8 of 10 James Martin/CNET
A Google I/O attendee models a cyan-colored pair of Project Glass glasses.
google-glass-6086_1.jpg
9 of 10 James Martin/CNET
A little bit closer on those cyan-colored Project Glass spectacles.
google-glass-6084.jpg
10 of 10 James Martin/CNET
And closer still.

More Galleries

My Favorite Shots From the Galaxy S24 Ultra's Camera
A houseplant

My Favorite Shots From the Galaxy S24 Ultra's Camera

20 Photos
Honor's Magic V2 Foldable Is Lighter Than Samsung's Galaxy S24 Ultra
magic-v2-2024-foldable-1383

Honor's Magic V2 Foldable Is Lighter Than Samsung's Galaxy S24 Ultra

10 Photos
The Samsung Galaxy S24 and S24 Plus Looks Sweet in Aluminum
Samsung Galaxy S24

The Samsung Galaxy S24 and S24 Plus Looks Sweet in Aluminum

23 Photos
Samsung's Galaxy S24 Ultra Now Has a Titanium Design
The Galaxy S24 Ultra in multiple colors

Samsung's Galaxy S24 Ultra Now Has a Titanium Design

23 Photos
I Took 600+ Photos With the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max. Look at My Favorites
img-0368.jpg

I Took 600+ Photos With the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max. Look at My Favorites

34 Photos
17 Hidden iOS 17 Features You Should Definitely Know About
Invitation for the Apple September iPhone 15 event

17 Hidden iOS 17 Features You Should Definitely Know About

18 Photos
AI or Not AI: Can You Spot the Real Photos?
img-1599-2.jpg

AI or Not AI: Can You Spot the Real Photos?

17 Photos