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Okay, it's great to be back at TED.

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Why don't I just start by firing away with the video?

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(Video) Man: Okay, Glass, record a video.

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Woman: This is it. We're on in two minutes.

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Man 2: Okay Glass, hang out with The Flying Club.

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Man 3: Google "photos of tiger heads." Hmm.

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Man 4: You ready? You ready? (Barking)

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Woman 2: Right there. Okay, Glass, take a picture.

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(Child shouting)

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Man 5: Go!

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Man 6: Holy [beep]! That is awesome.

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Child: Whoa! Look at that snake!

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Woman 3: Okay, Glass, record a video!

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Man 7: After this bridge, first exit.

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Man 8: Okay, A12, right there!

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(Children singing)

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Man 9: Google, say "delicious" in Thai.

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Google Glass: อร่อยMan 9: Mmm, อร่อย.

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Woman 4: Google "jellyfish."

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Man 10: It's beautiful.

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Sergey Brin: Oh, sorry, I just got this message from a Nigerian prince.

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He needs help getting 10 million dollars.

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I like to pay attention to these

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because that's how we originally funded the company,

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and it's gone pretty well.

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Though in all seriousness,

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this position that you just saw me in,

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looking down at my phone,

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that's one of the reasons behind this project, Project Glass.

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Because we ultimately questioned

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whether this is the ultimate future

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of how you want to connect to other people in your life,

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how you want to connect to information.

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Should it be by just walking around looking down?

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But that was the vision behind Glass,

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and that's why we've created this form factor.

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Okay. And I don't want to go through all the things it does and whatnot,

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but I want to tell you a little bit more

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about the motivation behind what led to it.

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In addition to potentially socially isolating yourself

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when you're out and about looking at your phone,

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it's kind of, is this what you're meant to do with your body?

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You're standing around there

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and you're just rubbing

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this featureless piece of glass.

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You're just kind of moving around.

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So when we developed Glass, we thought really about,

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can we make something that frees your hands?

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You saw all of the things people are doing

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in the video back there.

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They were all wearing Glass,

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and that's how we got that footage.

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And also you want something that frees your eyes.

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That's why we put the display up high,

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out of your line of sight,

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so it wouldn't be where you're looking

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and it wouldn't be where you're making

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eye contact with people.

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And also we wanted to free up the ears,

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so the sound actually goes through,

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conducts straight to the bones in your cranium,

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which is a little bit freaky at first, but you get used to it.

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And ironically, if you want to hear it better,

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you actually just cover your ear,

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which is kind of surprising, but that's how it works.

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My vision when we started Google 15 years ago

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was that eventually you wouldn't

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have to have a search query at all.

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You'd just have information come to you as you needed it.

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And this is now, 15 years later,

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sort of the first form factor

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that I think can deliver that vision

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when you're out and about on the street

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talking to people and so forth.

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This project has lasted now, been just over two years.

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We've learned an amazing amount.

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It's been really important to make it comfortable.

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So our first prototypes we built were huge.

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It was like cell phones strapped to your head.

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It was very heavy, pretty uncomfortable.

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We had to keep it secret from our industrial designer

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until she actually accepted the job,

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and then she almost ran away screaming.

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But we've come a long way.

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And the other really unexpected surprise was the camera.

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Our original prototypes didn't have cameras at all,

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but it's been really magical to be able to capture moments

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spent with my family, my kids.

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I just never would have dug out a camera

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or a phone or something else to take that moment.

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And lastly I've realized, in experimenting with this device,

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that I also kind of have a nervous tic.

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The cell phone is -- yeah, you have to look down on it and all that,

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but it's also kind of a nervous habit.

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Like if I smoked, I'd probably just smoke instead.

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I would just light up a cigarette. It would look cooler.

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You know, I'd be like --

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But in this case, you know, I whip this out

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and I sit there and look as if I have something

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very important to do or attend to.

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But it really opened my eyes to how much of my life

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I spent just secluding away,

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be it email or social posts or whatnot,

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even though it wasn't really --

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there's nothing really that important or that pressing.

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And with this, I know I will get certain messages

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if I really need them,

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but I don't have to be checking them all the time.

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Yeah, I've really enjoyed actually exploring the world more,

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doing more of the crazy things like you saw in the video.

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Thank you all very much.

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