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The family at Google Glass put togethera Valentine ’s Day videoshowing the Glass - optic scene of five twosome ’ marriage proposals . It ’s cunning . It ’s heartwarming . It ’s the unfit .
I experience what you ’re thinking . “ Oh yawn , another furious anti - romance blog billet from some foul internet misanthropist who ’s still stewing over another Valentine ’s Day spend watching House of Cards alone . ” shut out up . This is n’t about me .
Truth be told , I ’m a lollipop for romantic soupiness . watch people ’s unfiltered reactions to The Big Question is sublimely life - affirming , even when viewed through the linger not - quite - middle - to - eye of Glass . The temper start from puzzled to shocked to overwhelmed to exempt to blissful in the time it claim most of us to attach our shoe . There ’s an unrehearsed authenticity that you hardly see in any other moment of a person ’s lifespan . It remind grumps like me that there actually is passion out there in the Earth .
That response is the only unfiltered part of a marriage marriage proposal . Everything else is rehearsed , planned out , painstakingly considered , orchestrated among a group of hoi polloi that can be clandestinely lowly or shockingly large . And that ’s where Glass becomes a problem . It takes the most sexual mo of any proposal , no matter how large or small , and records it at a level of item that not even the near onlooker could engross .
Nothing kills unguarded spontaneity like the threat of being put down .
proposition - as - spectacle are not Glass ’s fault . Cloying , choreographed knee - taking is probably just as sometime as the tradition of marriage ceremony itself . We ca n’t blame Google ’s noggin smartphone for the great unwashed ’s habit of wanting to make a scene .
The problem is , Glass take any marriage proposal into a digital flashmob , whether the genuine - lifespan audience is 100 of restaurant patron or a secluded stand of trees . Now , even the most private , joyful moment of a duad ’s journey together becomes sharable content , without even the good manners warning of a broadcast waiter or a wedding photographer start out from behind a park bench .
And do n’t tell me there ’s a smartphone equivalent to this . Anyone out there who popped the question holding a velvet loge in one hand and a phone in the other is too pitifully self - cognisant to be subject to a blogger ’s scorn .
That ’s the affair here : using your smartphone to record your fiancee ’s reaction is an act so wilfully peculiar it would n’t ever bilk most people ’s mind . With Glass , though , nothing ever really has to cross your mind . It makes record one ’s every moment of spirit find normal — as normal as wear upon a face - computer can possibly feel .
If that ’s your thing , expert for you . Mazel tov . And I really do truly wish the best to the couples whose proposals we come to see through Glass . I do n’t even fault them : a Glass proposal is a fun trinket in a world where just about every other form of marriage offer has been done . Just because I would n’t do it does n’t think of you should n’t . Usually the opposite , as a matter of fact .
But if you ’re romantically involved with a Glass wearer , you advantageously start working on your surprised fount and your beaming “ yes ! ” Because untagging yourself in your marriage proposal video will probably become a major social medium faux pas . [ H / TRecode ]
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