Google Introduces World To 'Project Glass'

Google's now-unveiled "Project Glass" isn't so much a "virtual" reality. Consider it more a "coming attraction," CNN Money reports.

The codenamed device that Google Inc. unveiled Wednesday takes all the already-mobile technology of a smartphone and makes it wearable.

The unveiled concept video carries the promised possibility of laying video chats, turn-by-turn driving directions and text convesations - among other possible data displays - directly over the lens. Alternately, the final model could also be able to take photos.

"We think technology should work for you - to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don't," the company claimed via its Google+ page.

Google didn't so much put the video together showing off anything near a finished product after two years of development, but a means of throwing out ideas and seeing what feedback they gather.

The Google X lab-developed prototype doesn't have a sale date yet, but has received field tests. It's not yet known whether the specs will be a stand-alone device, or peripheral manipulated wirelessly with a phone, somewhat like a Bluetooth headset.

Check out the debut video below, and tell us: is this a vision of a future we should want, or simply one that isolates us further from one another within our own self-contained world of endless data streams?