Google Glass now comes in prescription glasses

Jamie Feltham

January 28, 2014

Want to use Google Glass but still need to see? Want your trendy new wearable to look, y’know, trendy? Well the new prescription Glasses could be for you.

Google has announced four different prescription glasses for Google Glass explorers. It costs $225 to upgrade to either Curve, Thing, Split or Bold designs. The Glass tech will then attach itself to the frame of the specs. There’s a video of it all in action above.

The new specs go on sale today. Google is working with health insurance provider VSP to offer subsidized frames and lenses.

Source: Google Glass Blog

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Jamie Feltham

Videogamer, music listener, squash player, exerciser, technology journalister. Multimedia journalism graduate, writing for the What Mobile mag and website

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