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Can Google Glass improve the experience of live classical music? Ivan Hewett thinks not.

Some fashions are so odd you wonder what ever could have inspired them. Take the present fad for viewing classical and operatic performances from the vantage point of a tiny camera, worn on the head of one of the participants.
This has been made possible by that new gizmo everyone's talking about, called Google Glass. This is a miniaturised iPhone and PC built into the frame of a pair of glasses. The owner views a tiny, see-through TV screen in one corner of his/her vision, and gives instructions to the device by a mixture of touching the frame, and muttering sotto voce instructions such as “OK Glass, take a picture”… Read more in The Telegraph