Although these frames can be used if you have bad vision, they don't come that way. Google isn't about to get in the business of providing prescription lenses itself — it would rather leave that up to your optometrist. The company has partnered up with "preferred eye-care professionals" it has trained up on Glass so they can create your lenses — or you can just use your own doctor. Either way, it means an additional cost (and an additional wait), but it also makes more sense. VSP, a large healthcare provider, has said it would reimburse members for a portion of the cost of the frames and is leading up the program to train optometrists in how Glass should be fitted.

The frames will ship with basic, non-prescription lenses — and Olsson says that some people may just opt to use those rather than the headband the Glass kit ships with. That actually might make some sense: there's a balanced, less tech-centric ethos to the new frames that makes the whole setup feel a little bit less "in your face" (excuse the pun). To go along with the new frames, Google is also releasing two more sunglasses, which are a little less cyberpunk than the original.

How do they feel? Surprisingly good. I've worn glasses for nearly 20 years now and so I'm used to the feel of them, and these new frames didn't seem alien. That's in stark contrast to using Glass without the frames, which despite Google's best efforts always felt a little weird on my ears and nose. Then again, the battery pack was still enough to give me a "wonky ear" that stuck out a bit a la Stephen Colbert. That's the price you pay for living in the future.

Will these new frames make Glass more socially acceptable, or at least make it seem less oddly futuristic? That's hard to say — there's no getting around the fact that you have a camera strapped to your head, but at least it's attached to a piece of wearable technology that's been around for hundreds of years instead of a half-dozen months. To my eyes — both wearing them and looking at them — they look better. But make no mistake, this is still Google Glass, and you're still likely to get into some awkward conversations.

Olsson is pretty relaxed when the weirdness of Glass comes up — it's obviously the most common question she has to face when talking about the product. "It's interesting to see the parallels with headphones," she says. "The fact that people walk around with these huge headphones is kind of crazy, in a way. But now you don't think about it as technology, you think about it as something that delivers music to you."

Google Glass may never be invisible, but can it become normal?

Headphones (and glasses and watches and all manner of other "wearable" technology) crossed that chasm of weirdness, but Glass has a long way to go before it seems normal. Google's new prescription frames won't change that — but they will give more people a chance to try.