Glass is being developed by Google X, which has worked on other futuristic technologies such as driverless cars. The project was announced on Google+by Project Glass lead Babak Parviz, an eletrical engineer who has also worked on putting display into contact lenses; steve Lee, a product manager and "geolocation specilist"; and Sebastian Thrun, who developed Udacity as well as well as worked on the autonomous car project. Google has patented the design of Project Glass. Thad starner, an augmented reality expert, is a teachnical lead/manager on the project.