The main concern amongst those who consider themselves fans of Google's latest smartglass wearable device, the Google Glass, is whether or not the device will catch on amongst consumers and become the revolutionary change to people's day-to-day lives that it hopes to be before its launch sometime next year. Now it seems the company is taking another step toward ensuring a future where everyone can wear the Glass by teaming up with an optics company to allow for prescription lenses in the Google Glass.
The latest news comes from a New York-based company called Rochester Optical, which has promised to release a special prescription lens add-on for the device in early 2014
"We'll be ready to start selling these to the public, at the latest, by January," Rochester Optical's Tim Moore told Mashable. Moore was one of the earliest Glass Explorers who helped test the prototype of the device.
The prescription lenses will be priced in the same range as the standard prescription lenses according to Moore. Customers will be able to visit the website where they can choose a matching color for their existing device and enter their prescription information. Once they do, lenses will be shipped to them within two business days.
"The arm mount will fit Google Glass perfectly, and it will be available in a number of colors that will match Glass colors," Moore said. For those thinking that the dates of the prescription program's release will hint at the Google Glass release, Moore quickly put those theories to rest, clarifying that Google is not involved with his project directly in any way.
"With a history of eyeglass development spanning 80 years, Rochester Optical's plunge into the future of eyewear offers yet another indication that established players are finally taking wearable technology seriously. The only question, now, is whether mainstream consumers are just as ready to embrace wearable computing in the same way," writes Mashable.
