Technology Meets Tradition: Google GLASS Highlights Denver’s Stock Show Kickoff Parade

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(Newswire.net — January 20, 2015)  Denver, Colorado — A lively parade of marching bands, prancing horses and farm equipment headed by 100 Texas Longhorns promenading through Denver’s historic financial district is an unusual sight, but it ushers in a Colorado tradition: The National Western Stock Show. This annual showcase is the world’s largest stock show and features the very best in family focused traditional entertainment. Favorite events include: PRCA rodeo, a Wild West Show, dancing horses, bull riding, mutton busting and cultural exhibitions as well as immense arenas filled with livestock and poultry of all kinds, all competing for coveted prizes or bragging rights.

Take a virtual peek through the viewfinder of Google’s wearable computer, GoogleGlass,and saddle up for Western-style fun. Sample some of the sights of Denver’s 2015 National Western Stock Show courtesy of Google GLASS and Photos. The National Western Stock show runs through January 25 at the National Western Complex and Denver Coliseum. Tickets are available though TicketsWest. Discount Tickets are available at King Soopers.

Wearable technology is evolving into an expanding set of tools that has the potential to positively impact how we live, work and play.  Most brands of wearable tech adorn people’s wrists, but the Google version, powered by Android’s KitKat operating system, is worn on the head in a manner similar to eyeglasses. Photos can be taken by issuing a verbal command, tapping the touchpad on the right side of the eyepiece, or even winking; the wearer’s natural point of view is truly reflected in the pictures take. Denver-based writer, Lisa Jones-Butts, explores how perception and interaction with the world around us can be positively impacted #throughglass.