Style and Tech Collide

Recently Google announced that it will have a partnership with Luxottica, the parent company of Ray-Ban and Oakley. With Google teaming up with such a well known company to produce newer and more stylish versions of their Google Glasses, they believe they will finally be able to get their product to be sold in the mainstream. Google has had issues finding a way to get this amazing little bit of technology out to the consumers. So their hope is to be able to use Ray-Ban and Oakley's market place to drop in their technology attached to a stylish pair of name brand glasses.

Google has had some serious issues with Glass ever since it was reveled. They revealed it over two years ago and they still don't have it on the market, that is their biggest problem. The other problems they faced were the price. Glass was being sold at $1,500 plus per pair. You can buy different frames though ranging from $75 to $225, and that's adding onto the $1,500 for the Google Glass lenses piece. The Glass also has not gotten the best media reviews either, so that has not helped either.

As for me, I was asked to be a product tester for Google Glass. I was extremely excited thinking I would get a free pair of Google Glass to try out. Unfortunately when I saw that I needed to purchase my own pair I was not as thrilled. $1,500 for a pair of glasses that I may not even like was something I was not willing to do. I continuously waited and am still waiting for this price to drop. Hopefully with the new partnership they will be able to find a way to knock the price down. Maybe if they bump the price down and get more people to buy them, the reviews will change or the reviews will help update the product for future customers.


 http://mashable.com/2014/03/24/google-glass-ray-ban-oakley/