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From VOA Learning English, this is As It Is! I’m Anna Matteo in Washington.

Technology is changing many parts of our lives: from Skype lessons in the classroom to cars that talk to us.

Today, we hear how Google is working with the National BasketballAssociation to change the way fans experience top-level basketball, all withtechnology.

Here’s Jim Tedder with more on that story.

Hawks Versus Pacers Basketball

The Indianapolis Pacers are the first team in the NBA to use Google Glass toimprove the experience of watching a game.

Google Glass is the latest in technology that you can wear. Most of thetechnologies for Google Glass are already available on smartphones. Googlehas taken those technologies and added them to eye glass frames.

Chris Dale is the Senior Manager of Communications for Google Glass.

“Google Glass is a tiny computer that sits in alightweight frame and rests neatly above your eye. And it makes exploring and sharing the world around you alot easier.”

Google co-rounder Sergey Brin wears Google Glass glasses. Which sounds redundant.

The glasses have a very small video display and acamera that connects wirelessly to the Internet throughWiFi, a smartphone or a tablet computer.

When NBA players wear Google Glass during a game,fans can see what it is like to be a professionalbasketball player. They can see video of what it is like to dribble down thecourt, or to make a game-winning shot.

Indiana Pacers fans saw first-person views of important moments in theirteam’s exciting 84-83 victory against the Miami Heat. Coaches can wearGoogle Glass to provide video from the sidelines where it is impossible to fitlarger video cameras. The Indiana Pacers also gave Google Glass to famouspeople who attend the team’s games to show the action from seats near thebasketball court.

But not everyone is excited about Google Glass. Someare concerned about privacy violations. John Simpsonis the director of the privacy project at ConsumerWatchdog.

“It is essentially going to allow people to come in andspy on you and record that without you knowing what isgoing on.”

Google says that it has already dealt with that concern.Mr. Dale explained that in order to start the camera or record a video, theowner must say something out loud.

“I activate the device, and say ‘Okay, glass, take a picture.’ Similarly, I have alittle button on the top here that I can push that will again show an explicitgesture to everybody around me that a picture is being taken or a video isbeing recorded.”

Imagine seeing this shot from the players' points of view.

Privacy concerns will not be a question for the Pacer’s use of Google Glass. Everything and everyone recorded will be shown on a huge screen in thearena for all to see.

I’m Jim Tedder.

Thanks, Jim. And I’m Anna Matteo. You are listening to As It Is.

Giving fans a courtside view is one way the NBA is using Google Glass. Canyou think of any others? Be creative! Be innovative! Think out of the box! Andlet us know in our comment section.