A browser has appeared in Google Glass, according to the device’s page on the Google+ social network. The web browser is contained in the next update that Google has released for its glasses.

To navigate sites, use the touch panel on the temple of the glasses. To scroll a web page, you need to drag your finger across the panel to change the scale - pinch or spread two fingers together.

Google Glass
Photo: Project Glass / Google+

The entire web page does not fit on the glasses screen, and only part of it is within the active area. To move the active area, you need to place two fingers on the touchpad and move your head.

Previously, Google glasses only had a search application. It showed web page titles and abstracts in search results, but did not provide the ability to go to the page itself.

In addition to adding a browser, the update to glasses improves the voice control feature. Now, using voice commands, the user can answer messages, receive calls and send photos to friends.

Google Glass is a wearable computer in the form of glasses without glass, but with a miniature screen in front of the right eye. The glasses are capable of exchanging data with a smartphone wirelessly.

The device is not yet on sale. Google distributed the first batch of glasses to beta testers who passed a special competition. The serial version is promised to be released before the end of 2013.

Google glasses now have a browser