Google Glass UI video released, shows all features

Google Glass UI video shows off search, camera and voice translation features

Google Glass is forthcoming wearable headset, providing a fresh, and more realistic look from Google. The company has just announced its plans to expand pre-orders for the Google Glass and has even posted a video which showcases the product in its full features.

Google had posted a similar video when the company first announced the Google Glass project a year ago. The above video provides substantially more detail about the headset’s functionality, and a more accurate depiction of how it will actually look.

Google Glass Features

Based on the demo, Google Glass will allow users to receive and execute onscreen directions, send voice-controlled messages, and search the web through speech. The UI also includes voice-controlled photos, and suggests that the device will offer onscreen translation support — a rather notable development that Google hadn’t mentioned in previous announcements.

Google has previously said it is aiming to launch Glass by early 2014, though the company is already pushing out developer editions, priced at $1,500. “It’s certainly early days of the device — there will be bumps,” a Google spokesperson tells The Verge. “But what’s cool is that we’re approaching the time when people will be able to take Glass out into the world and start exploring what’s possible with a device like this.”

Google Glass

Project Glass is a research and development program by Google to develop an augmented reality head-mounted display (HMD). Project Glass products would display information in smartphone-like format hands-free and could interact with the Internet via natural language voice commands. The prototype’s functionality and minimalist appearance (aluminium strip with 2 nose pads) has been compared to Steve Mann’s EyeTap.

The operating system software used in the glasses will be Google’s Android.

Excitement has been building around the project ever since Google first announced it last summer, and will no doubt swell going forward, now that the company has given a fuller idea of its augmented reality future.

According to Google, today’s video “actually shows how Glass works.“