Google Glass API Documentation
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Google Glass API Documentation
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#2This is so exciting. Just how a completely new user experience paradigm was uncovered when high quality touch screen devices like iPhone etc. first launched, this is yet another milestone in how we will continue to interact with the petabytes of data that we as mankind have digitized.
It's worth pondering how significantly new I/O devices change the game -- the first tty, the commercial keyboard & mouse, the touch screen, multi-touch trackpads, and voice activated smartphones.
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#3I wonder if they also plan to allow native apps eventually.
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#4This is so exciting. Just how a completely new user experience paradigm was uncovered when high quality touch screen devices like iPhone etc. first launched, this is yet another milestone in how we will continue to interact with the petabytes of data that we as mankind have digitized. It's worth pondering how significantly new I/O devices change the game -- the first tty, the commercial keyboard & mouse, the touch sc…
Amazing technology aside, this is a pretty disappointing API release from a developer standpoint. Basically no access to Glass's amazing hardware, nor any way to receive user input other than a swipe/tap on the side? I'm really hoping it gets more comprehensive.
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#5This is so exciting. Just how a completely new user experience paradigm was uncovered when high quality touch screen devices like iPhone etc. first launched, this is yet another milestone in how we will continue to interact with the petabytes of data that we as mankind have digitized. It's worth pondering how significantly new I/O devices change the game -- the first tty, the commercial keyboard & mouse, the touch sc…
Amazing technology aside, this is a pretty disappointing API release from a developer standpoint. Basically no access to Glass's amazing hardware, nor any way to receive user input other than a swipe/tap on the side? I'm really hoping it gets more comprehensive.
Give it time. The first iPhone only supported web apps, and besides, it's likely that battery is limited on Glass.
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#6What would be nice is if Google released an Android app that does the same thing as Glass (ie. location updates and push notifications), for testing purposes. It wouldn't be as nifty as having the thing on your head, but pretty much all the use cases covered by the API would work on that.
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#7I can't find any info on how to write a Glass app that actually interacts with the camera or does geolocation. Am I missing something?
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#8Apparently, it is possible to setup your future Google Glass today: https://glass.google.com/setup
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#10This is so exciting. Just how a completely new user experience paradigm was uncovered when high quality touch screen devices like iPhone etc. first launched, this is yet another milestone in how we will continue to interact with the petabytes of data that we as mankind have digitized. It's worth pondering how significantly new I/O devices change the game -- the first tty, the commercial keyboard & mouse, the touch sc…
Amazing technology aside, this is a pretty disappointing API release from a developer standpoint. Basically no access to Glass's amazing hardware, nor any way to receive user input other than a swipe/tap on the side? I'm really hoping it gets more comprehensive.
The Glass will surely be hacked six ways to Sunday but I doubt the official API will go much deeper than it already is.
The still-disappointing Plus API pretty much tipped Google's hand when it comes to how flexible they want to be on providing APIs for future products and on top of that there are some pretty substantial privacy issues with giving developers low-level access to the vast amount of personal data Glass will constantly be collecting. I'm already worried enough about Google having that data that I'm sitting out Glass for the foreseeable future (despite the fact that I suspect it will be useful for a lot things), but if random third parties could access that data at a low-level I'd be even more worried.