Prescription lenses are coming to Google Glass

Brian Matiash, a community manager for Google, has posted (and quickly removed) a pair of photos that show Google Glass being used with prescription lenses.

Somewhere around 60 percent of people in the developing world wear glasses, contact lenses or have had corrective eye surgery, making support for prescription lenses a high priority for Google.

The photos posted by Matiash were taken on the Google campus in Mountain View, and resemble a regular pair of glasses with a Glass attachment clipped to the right side. Here's another shot in more detail.

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While that makes them look a little hacked together, it's not actually that different from the normal Google Glass design -- just that the frame is a little chunkier. It also resembles a version of prescription Glass that Google teased back in May 2013.

There's no release date. But support for prescription lenses was added to the software back in October, so we'd bet 2014 will be a good year for myopian and hyperopian Glass enthusiasts.

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