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Isn't the HUD a bit... distracting? I mean, I was looking the video and if I focused in the HUD I couldn't watch the "real life" and vice-versa, how would that work in the real Glass?

Also, it seems like for now it's only focused in social features... I should get some friends before getting the Glass.

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I played World of Warcraft for a bit, and there was a HUD overlay onto the screen. After a while, you kind of get used to it. Also, the devs could make it so that you could control the opacity of the HUD, the position/size, or turn it on/off based on gestures.

I played World of Warcraft for a bit, and there was a HUD overlay onto the screen. After a while, you kind of get used to it.

Exactly. These things are not for people who want to experience real life.

what is "real" life? I just bought a coffee, but didn't make it myself, a machine did. is it real?

Yeah. You drank it, right? You weren't watching a character drink a machine-made coffee on a screen.

And your girlfriend who was looking at instragram while she was walking with you, was she looking at the pictures, or was she watching another character look at them?

She probably smelled way better than her avatar.

(And if you think this is just being crude, then something essential and primal has been lost for you.)

Not if she's a WoW player...

All your inputs are via wires. Some of them are short wires, and made of meat. But you have no direct senses.

many people witness a lot of "important" real life things through the screen/lens of their phone.. for those situations, you're covered - and it's pointing where you look, so you don't have to look at it to know it's recording what you see.. (ish)

Hopefully in the near future there will be some way to install applications to it, Like accessing the glass app store from a web browser and clicking "Install to my glass."

Augmented reality would be nice. Put the clock on the wall instead of in front of the world.

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