Google Publishes Dos and Don'ts For Glass Owners

 By 
Stan Schroeder
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Google Publishes Dos and Don'ts For Glass Owners
Google Glass: now car legal. Credit: Mashable

Google Glass owners, take notice: Google has special rules of conduct for you. The company tapped into the collective wisdom of Glass owners and published a list of dos and don'ts for not-so-experienced Glass Explorers.

Besides pretty obvious points, such as "explore the world around you," and "taking advantage of Glass voice commands" the list of Dos includes asking for permission before you start recording, using the screen lock to protect your device and being active in the Explorer community.

What Google doesn't want its Explorers to do is be rude (the post specifically mentions the term "Glasshole"), or wear Glass while doing high-impact sports.

Google also warns against "glassing out," meaning the Glass was not designed to use for long periods of time -- and if you do it in public, you'll get weird looks. On that topic, Google also mentions there's no way you can wear Glass and expect to be ignored. Instead, you should "develop your own etiquette" -- if you think you might offend or annoy someone by wearing Glass, you should put it away.

You can find the complete list of Glass "rules of conduct" here. Do you agree with them?

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