Google Glass not getting face-recognition feature

Google put out word that it won't add face-recognition features to Glass, in a bow to privacy fears raised about the camera-enabled internet-connected eyewear. 

"We won't add facial recognition features to our products without having strong privacy protections in place," Google said in an online message aimed at software developers creating applications for Glass. 

Google Glass to be tested by 8,000 people

Google has chosen 8,000 people, including celebrities and tech opinion former's  who will get the chance to test its much-awaited 'wearable computer' Glass. 

Those who wanted to become 'Glass Explorers' had a week in February to submit their reasons why they should, in 50 words, via Google or Twitter. 

They were also asked to pay 1,500 dollars and collect their Glass frames from Los Angles, San Francisco or New York. 

The Glass wearable computers display information in a smartphone-like format, are hands-free, can interact with the internet using natural language voice commands and use Google's Android operating system. 

Among the well-known names who impressed the #fiberglass judges were actor Neil Patrick Harris, who now plays womanising Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother, and Souljaboy, a US rapper whose dance craze swept the nation, SKY News reports. 

According to the report, former House of Representatives speaker and Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich said he would take his 'on tours of zoos and museums to share the animals and fossils'. 

The names of around 4,000 people accepted by Google via Twitter have been collated and posted online by Stanford computer science PhD student Andrej Karpathy. 

His research showed 26 per cent of people chosen have fewer than 100 followers, 61 per cent fewer than 1,000 and seven percent have more than 10,000 followers. 

The Glass wearable computers display information in a smartphone-like format, are hands-free, can interact with the internet using natural language voice commands and use Google's Android operating system.