The Physicality of Glass
What the first moments of wearing Google Glass feels like - And how it’s helping some people to hear again.
Something I hadn’t realized about Google Glass until I picked mine up today is the physicality of the fitting. The folks at Google want your Glass to fit right, of course. They don’t want you walking around looking like the nutty professor, sure, but it also aids somewhat with the usability of Glass to ensure it fits you properly.
So it took about 20 minutes to fit mine properly. And for a good part of that time,I had two (very nice, helpful) employees fussing and tinkering with Glass to refine my fit. This isn’t an issue you experience, of course, picking up an iPhone, a tablet, a laptop. It’s much more personal. A person’s facial structure affects Glass, just like it would another pair of glasses, sure, but some adjustment is also necessary to ensure proper screen placement. You notice that one of your ears is lower than the other, so you have to twist Glass’s titanium frame this way and that to compensate for it. You’re reminded that your nose is a little larger (in my case), when you have to adjust the nose clips to fit you. An iPhone, you pick up. Glass, yes, it seems obvious, but you wear it. And you feel that.
