Some folks call Google Glass “dorky-looking”. In three years, they’ll be haute couture.
Google co-founder Sergey Brinn demoed his company’s Google Glass program at this week’s Google I/O conference in what may be the best tech presentation on record. Warning that the technology was new and this would be a rough demo, he cut to a scene of several BASE jumpers geared up in wing suits floating above San Francisco’s Moscone Center in a Zeppelin airship (as I was later corrected after calling it a “blimp”). For the next several minutes, conference participants watching the keynote (and those of us watching via streaming video) were treated to a series of POV shots taken directly from the cutting edge Glass technology, experiencing the same thrill of falling to earth, jumping BMX bikes across the convention center roofs, rappelling down to the third floor and, finally, riding through a confused lobby crowd and through the meeting room to the keynote stage.
