Google and VSP, thenation's biggest optical health insurance provider, have struck adeal to offer subsidized frames and prescription lenses for GoogleGlass, the Internet-connected eyewear, according to a recent article in The New YorkTimes
|The announcement could take wearable devices out of the realm ofscience fiction and into the mainstream by making them moreaffordable and giving them a medical stamp of approval. And itopens the door to a new level of cooperation between the healthcare and consumer electronics industries, which could lead to aworld in which people wear or even ingest computers, the Timesstates.
|With traditional-style frames and prescription lenses, whichGlass did not have before, the computer and screen for the deviceare less evident and the device looks more typical–and is availableeven to people who wear glasses.
|For more on the partnership between Google and VSP, read The New York Times' article in full.
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