Google Glass Music Sounds Great, But It’s Impossible (For Now)

Google Glass, now mostly a data head’s-up display, will soon transform into a headset for streaming music. Which sounds pretty cool, right? Too bad it won’t work, at least with Glass as it’s currently designed.

Streaming music on Glass certainly fits into Google’s chic vision of the future, in which we all bop around from hip parties to the music studio with the company’s biggest hardware experiment ever affixed to our faces (just watch the video!). And believe me, that’s a future I want to be a part of—even if it means buying a leather jacket with a mock collar.

Google Glass will also soon offer sound search, a tool that auto-detects what song is playing to answer the question “OK Glass, what song is this?”—a thing I’d ask Glass approximately two times per year. With Google Play Music, a new voice command will let users queue up their preferred tunes through Google Play Music.

Unfortunately, the news that Glass will add support for Google Play Music, Google’s streaming music service and song storage locker, is putting the cart way, way before the horse. I bought Glass, after all. I want to believe. But unless the second “Explorer Edition” of Google Glass jumps a few lightyears forward in technology, the design is nowhere near there yet.