Google Glass is a head-mounted wearable computer developed by Google[9] with the

mission of producing a mass-market ubiquitous computer.[1] A uniqueness is the

optical display, which is resting in the peripheral vision with being attached t
o a specially designed lightweight glasses frame. Therefore, the device is also
being denoted as a Peripheral Head-Mounted Display (PHMD).[10] Contrary to popul
ar literature, Google Glass is strictly speaking not a Head-up display (HUD) if
following the original definition by NASA,[11] since (1) the perception of infor
mation is independent from the angle of the head position and (2) information ca
n only be augmented indirectly with the help of a camera playback. In media-theo
retical context this technology belongs to the non-immersive augmented reality.[
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Besides displaying information in a discrete smartphone-like hands-free format,[
13] wearers are enabled to communicate with the Internet via natural language vo
ice commands or tapping and sliding on the glasses frame.[14][15] Google started
selling a prototype of Google Glass to qualified "Glass Explorers" in the US on
April 15, 2013, for a limited period for $1,500, before it became available to
the public on May 15, 2014,[16] for the same price.
On January 15, 2015, Google announced that it would stop producing the Google Gl
ass prototype but remained committed to the development of the product. Accordin
g to Google, Project Glass was ready to "graduate" from Google Labs, the experim
ental phase of the project.[17]