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Video From Google's Project Glass Surfaces

Google's Project Glass team unveils the first video footage shot with the cutting-edge device.

May 25, 2012

Ever since Google unveiled its mobile computing project, dubbed , the world has scrutinized every fleeting detail about the new wearable gadget. Up until now we've only seen photos taken by the glasses, but at an event held earlier this week, the first video footage shot by the device was revealed.

The footage was screened by software engineer Max Braun during a presentation at the Google+ Photographer's Conference in San Francisco. After presenting a gallery of brand-new images captured by the glasses, Braun showed off video of a person jumping on a trampoline while wearing the device. "This one makes us a little queasy, but our prototype nailed what it's like to be on a trampoline," the development team wrote on the official Project Glass Google+ page.

Like the early photos delivered by the device, the video footage isn't high quality, but it successfully captures some of the potential hinted at in the original Project Glass concept video.

After Braun, Google co-founder Sergey Brin took to the stage (video below) to offer more thoughts on the Project Glass. Narrating a series of photos taken during a recent photo walk using the glasses, Brin talked about how the device could usher in a new way of producing art. "I think that [Project Glass] can bring about a new style, a new kind of photography that allows you to be much more intimate with the world that you are capturing," Brin said.

The images produced by the glasses have been dissected and even harshly critiqued as poor quality by some, but Brin took a moment during his brief speech to remind everyone that the device is still in an early prototype phase. "[The glasses] are not beta, these are not alpha, these are kind of rough off the lab floor," he said.

You can check out the new footage, as well as a gallery of new images taken by the glasses on the Project Glass website.