The aluminum-and-glass case is now just .34” thickand the Wi-Fiversion weighs only 1.33 lbs, making it 33 percent thinner and 15 percent lighterthan its predecessor.
Nearby is the 563-room Shangri-La, an ultramodern marble and glass tower hotel offering equally expansive rooms and views, free wi-fi, and a bar on the 36th floor with a very popular happy hour.
Much of the unease over Glass revolves around whether it will ultimately incorporate facial-recognition software a sci-fi-sounding scenario that, according to The Wall Street Journal, was proven by a group of Carnegie Mellon University researchers in 2011.