Google Glasses Photos: Sebastian Thrun Snaps Picture With 'Project Glass' Prototype

It's been a busy week for photos of Google Glasses, with two notable Googlers strutting their stuff with the tech giant's upcoming augmented reality computer-specs.

First, here's a photo taken by Project Glass lead engineer Sebastian Thrun posted to his Google+ account with the simple caption "Jasper, my son, and me":

The picture was indeed taken using a prototype of Google Glasses, as confirmed by the official project Google+ page. This isn't Thrun's first Eyeglasses shot: The engineer also took a picture of Charlie Rose using his Glasses prototype during an interview on the venerable newsman's show a few weeks ago.

After months of chatter, Google formally introduced its 'Project Glass' with a brief concept video meant to solicit ideas for what people would like to see such a gizmo do. Google is keeping details of the project secret, with most of the work being done in the company's mysterious Google[x] labs in Mountain View, California.

Much of what we know has come through Thrun and the Charlie Rose interview: Currently, Google's Glasses can take photos, share them to Google+, and compose emails via voice dictation. The Glasses overlay common smartphone applications on a small lens in front of the wearer's right eye; Google co-founder Sergey Brin has shown them off in public, and this week Google Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra posed for a photo as well:

Google has not shared a release date or price for its Glasses, but it has previously stressed that the product will not be available this year.

For a few more views of Google Glasses, check out the slideshow of concept designs provided by Google below:

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• <a href="https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts" target="_hplink">All images courtesy of Project Glass on Google+</a>.

• <a href="https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts" target="_hplink">Image courtesy of Project Glass on Google+</a>.

• <a href="https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts" target="_hplink">Image courtesy of Project Glass on Google+</a>.

• <a href="https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts" target="_hplink">Image courtesy of Project Glass on Google+</a>.

• <a href="https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts" target="_hplink">Image courtesy of Project Glass on Google+</a>.

• Google's Original 'Project Glass' Concept Video

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Comments

[adlane]

03:31 PM on 05/26/2012

Google should evolve it's glasses more by adopting a more aggressive methods, in first place AR (augmented reality) and not just displaying it but interact with it , see how there: http://imaginewnext.blogspot.com/2012/05/missing-parts-in-google-glasses-ar.html

[stevec2nd]

02:38 AM on 05/12/2012

Now, along with making it possible for someone to know everything about you and your life, they''ll know exactly where you went all day, every day.

[angelavictoria5]

07:38 PM on 05/11/2012

Could beaming your avatar (see video on this page) be used as a drone or droid within the home?

[ItsEmu]

01:51 AM on 05/11/2012

It costs around $6000 right now. I'll pass. Imagine you drop those. x.x

[wtf is this]

12:10 AM on 05/11/2012

The ultimate revenge of the nerds. Get everyone to wear glasses that look like they're taped together.

[blackwednesday]

11:00 PM on 05/10/2012

Personally, I have been waiting for something like this for a long, long, time. We all have really. Something like this is the next logical step from super-phones.

I am betting that we'll start to see this stuff built into, or designed to at least look like standard eyeglasses within the next 5 years. It's amazing how far we have come in such a short time.

I am in my late 30's. I met a girl in a bar the other night who confessed that she had never actually seen a rotary telephone. I was shocked (and suddenly felt like a dirty old man).

[snallygaster]

09:16 PM on 05/10/2012

I prefer my reality augmented by something a little more fun than eyewear :-)

[DEUT 3019]

07:58 PM on 05/10/2012

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

[american-dolt]

07:47 PM on 05/10/2012

What is this a paid advertisement?

[Jabali]

08:37 PM on 05/10/2012

Yep. All but one of the photos was a "stock" photo.

[JoeLosFeliz]

08:55 PM on 05/10/2012

Yes. I'm looking forward to reading the next Apple advertisement, er, I mean "article."

[american-dolt]

09:04 PM on 05/10/2012

How about the latest on Madonna, Bieber or Katy Perry Daily Nonsense? Payola.One Big Company.

[Veritas2005X]

07:06 PM on 05/10/2012

This is how the war with the cyborgs starts...

[snallygaster]

09:17 PM on 05/10/2012

Google = Skynet

[Priestess of Ryleh]

09:26 PM on 05/10/2012

ah, but which side are you one?

[munga]

06:44 PM on 05/10/2012

Hmmm... from this video I get that if I want to be detached from the world, have uncomfortable, shallow meetings with friends and spend sunset alone on a roof I should get these. As a status symbol and for tech geeks they could be as hot as the iphone but for real life they very well could go the way of the segway.

[MarkOates]

06:39 PM on 05/10/2012

His kid kinda looks like him. :D

[MarkOates]

06:28 PM on 05/10/2012

Well, it's an angle I've never seen before. I'll give it that. The photographer's hands are IN the shot, too.

[writersbloc]

06:20 PM on 05/10/2012

Am I the only person in the world who thinks these glasses look stupid?

[Brewerpaul]

07:54 PM on 05/10/2012

No...

[JoeLosFeliz]

08:55 PM on 05/10/2012

No.

[Notsosurearewe]

06:16 PM on 05/10/2012

Jeez that girl is hot. Does she even have pores?