On Friday, 10 months after signing up to join Google’s Glass Explorer program at Google I/O 2012, I received my invitation to purchase and pick up Google Glass.
The invitation directed me to call an 800 number, to agree to Google’s unprecedentedly restrictive terms of service, and to choose a color: Charcoal, Tangerine, Shale, Cotton or Sky. For the fashion-challenged, that translates to black, orange, gray, white or light blue.
I opted for black because it goes with everything and it’s less likely to attract attention, which appears to be difficult to avoid if you wear Glass in public.
The invitation asked me to choose between picking up Glass at a Google office in Mountain View, New York or Los Angeles, or having Glass shipped. As a resident of San Francisco, I opted to for the in-person pickup experience at Google’s sprawling headquarters in Mountain View.