Google Glass Price, Release Date, Review: AR Lens’ Enthusiast Who Filmed Arrest On Glass Pushes Privacy Boundaries Further, Creates First Shades For Device

Google Glass price, release date, review: Google’s AR lens is proving to have it’s own set of experts (or sensationalists) and Chris Barrett, a PR man, member of the Glass explorer program and the first person to film an arrest with Glass is pushing the privacy boundaries with the device further.

The Google Glass 3D Printed Sunshade is an invention of Barrett and Next Fab Studio, which effectively obscures the light that tells you the Google Glass is in use. This means that anyone wearing the shades with the lens wouldn’t know if he or she is being photographed, filmed or recorded in the device.

As CNET described it, with this new Glass accessory, you are as free as a bird to shoot whatever you like, whenever you like and from whatever angle you can get your head to around. Developing the accessory has led people to accuse Barrett of encouraging sneakiness. He argued, however, that his only motivation for the shades was the poor visibility with the Glass on sunny days.

“I did not create the Sunshade to be sneaky. The 3D printed sunshade does make Glass less noticeable and fewer people ask me what I’m wearing when they can’t see the prism light up,” he told CNET’s Chris Matyszczyk.

Privacy has been one of the main concerns that Google has to counter when it comes to encouraging the mainstream use of the Glass. Early this year, strip clubs, casinos, hotels and even cinemas has already sent out notices banning the Glass from their premises.

Many defenders of the AR lens say that the light that shows when the Glass is in use is one way people can keep themselves from being recorded. But with the availability of the 3D shades and possibly more accessories along the way, the presence of Glass could be more ubiquitous than wanted.

"With any new technology like Glass or a wearable watch with a camera, it's up to the user to decide how and when he or she will use the camera to record video or take photographs," added Barett when he spoke with CNET.

The issue now is the many people who maybe unwilling recipient of Glass attention, who may or may not even know it.