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TITE INVERSION(c) http://goo.gl/BJzpM : At Google I/O 2012, the Project Glass team took product demoing to a new level. Come with us and see how we spent the weeks leading up to the Google I/O demo ... living in the moment, doing Hangouts in Air, and free-falling with Glass. We had an amazing time putting together the demo that we did for Glass today at Google I/O. The video below from some of our testing really captures the feeling of freedom that our project aspires to. The aerial footage was captured on Glass. The higher fidelity footage was recorded locally on the device whereas the hangouts were live streamed at a much lower resolution because of the challenges of networking a skydiver inflight. Because we were unable to get regular wifi (which is built into Glass) to work under those conditions, we had to use extra networking gear which was tethered via usb to the device (and also provided extra battery for long days of testing). We got very lucky today in that everything went off so seamlessly. But since we have received so much interest in this demo, we are going to push our luck. For those people who did not happen to catch it, there is nothing like seeing it live. We are planning to walk everyone through the demo tomorrow and if the stars align you'll get to see some amazing action over San Francisco. Tune in right around 11am to the I/O live stream. Not too many years ago, people who carried on conversations with folks the rest of us couldn't hear were considered demented (or drunk). Then came the cellular phone headset, which meant normal people could walk along, carrying on conversations with people we couldn't hear, although many researchers came to believe that a large percentage of so-called "normal" cell phone users were also demented (or drunk). Now Google's Project Glass means people can walk along, seeing things no one else can -- and carrying on conversations with them. Are Google's Project Glass users demented? Are they drunk? Or are they looking at heads-up displays mounted on glasses frames or attached to prescription glasses? Inquiring Slashdot editor Timothy Lord wanted to know, so he joined a Glass demonstration hosted by Google co-founder Sergey Brin (whose company is not related to Barney Google, as far as we know) to find out for himself -- and to share his findings with you.