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Google Glass to enter International Space Station

The wearable eye device from Google is all set to enter the International Space Station (ISS) for a flatworm study next week.

Part of the package to be sent to the International Space Station onboard the SpaceX launch from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on December 16, Google Glass will be tested as an augmented reality tool in the pre-flight integration and post-flight operations, Glass Almanac reported.

The mission will take a team from the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, in partnership with the non-profit Kentucky Space, to the ISS.
The team will “analyse the regeneration mechanisms of flatworms in the microgravity environment of space”.

Google Glass will not be part of the actual mission but rather work as an augmented reality assistant during pre-flight and post-flight.

This small experiment will help scientists utilise Google Glass as a human interface with Kentucky Space experiments on the International Space Station in 2015.

Earlier reports suggest that the new version of Intel-powered Google Glass may look slimmer and sleeker than its earlier version. The entire thing appears more like a futuristic headset and less like a modified pair of glasses.

Google Glass is presently available for $1,500, though it is speculated that the final retail version will sell for a lot less.