I 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?
This might be what you're looking for: https://developers.google.com/glass/media-upload
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#12Can anyone get the demo to work? I'm getting a 500. https://glass-java-starter-demo.appspot.com/
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#13What 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.
You mean like Google Now which seems to show the same cards as the glass demos http://www.google.com/landing/now/
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#14I 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?
You can get a user's geolocation (https://developers.google.com/glass/location). Couldn't find anything about the camera.
However, the API doesn't seem to offer any way to run code on the actual device aka "apps".
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#15What 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.
They do, sort of: https://developers.google.com/glass/playground
It's a jsfiddle-like sandbox that behaves like a Glass (device) frontend.
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#16This 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.
I'm willing to bet that they'll have some android integration announcements at I/O. The Motorola phones are suppose to have touch controls on the back, which would be a pretty convenient way to interact with glass.
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#17"Each step in human technological advancement provides improved methods for the distribution of cat photos. Project Glass is no different."
On a slightly more serious note, I'm glad to see this since I feared that they might keep the API for later, instead opting to try and make a "product" first (a la iPhone 1 or Google+).
This API is definitely not what I was envisioning though - I expected another API add-on to Android, where you can take over and do what you wish with the display, so perhaps it is a bit like webapps-as-apps on the iPhone 1. I'd be interested to see what early adopters do with it and if they find this API too limited.
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#18I had been wondering about this spec:
Send full screen images and video at a 16x9 aspect ratio.
Target a 640x360 pixel resolution.Re: Google Glass API Documentation
#19Does this mean they are going to start shipping for the glassexplorer program ?
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#20I've been a Google Glass skeptic. But I just got back from Mexico, where I was walking all over waving my phone at various signs so Word Lens could translate them for me... skeptic no more! Word Lens is a killer app for the platform. Except now I see that there's no API to access the camera. Seems like a huge mistake.