Over the past 14 months, Google’s Glass Explorer program has gone
from early developer access, to contest winners, to friend referrals,
and recently even opening up the purchase of Glass directly from Google
without the need for a special invite. Through all of these changes a
common criteria existed: be at least 18 years old, have $1,500 readily
available, and be a resident of the United States. Thankfully, Google
plans to nix at least one of those requirements in the very near future
making Glass even easier to obtain.
According to sources close to the matter, Google plans to expand the
Glass Explorer program internationally, making the announcement at their
upcoming Google I/O developer conference June 25 – 26, 2014. We’re told
that Glass will launch in at least the UK, however we weren’t able to
confirm any additional countries or regions. Chances are, other English
speaking countries are included in the launch as well, such as Canada,
Australia, etc.
Another likely, but unconfirmed Glass launch location is Japan. A
previous teardown of the GlassVoice.apk file included with the Glass
firmware revealed many telling bits of information such as Japanese Java
Locale’s, and even Japanese based voice commands.
Google Glass to launch internationally at Google IO [Rumor]
We weren’t able to confirm pricing for any
of the upcoming international launch locations for Glass, but chances
are you’ll have fork over your regions equivalent of $1,500 to join
Google’s beta program. And if you’re in the UK, you’ll want to stay up
to date on the latest driving legislation. Last summer the UK was
looking into banning Glass while driving.
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