So screen resolution is 640 x 360px. Looks like lot of interesting applications can be build with that real estate! Weather, Maps etc. are some to come to my mind right away.
Google Glass API Documentation
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#22I'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.
No camera API access? That's ridiculous! Not only does it restrict about 70% of the possible usefulness of a head-mounted computer (so it's basically just a fancy news-feed display), but it'll allow competitors to move into the arena having a clear advantage. The only reason I see for Google to be doing this is resource allocation, but I feel like image processing could be offloaded to a linked smartphone, if necessary.
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#23This is... pretty seriously disappointing, if it's supposed to be the whole thing (or close to the whole thing). I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they're going to publish the rest later, and not deliberately hobbling it to prevent the public from getting creeped out by the hardware's capabilities.
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#24This is... pretty seriously disappointing, if it's supposed to be the whole thing (or close to the whole thing). I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they're going to publish the rest later, and not deliberately hobbling it to prevent the public from getting creeped out by the hardware's capabilities.
Keep in mind this is Google Mirror API documentation not Google Glass apps API.
Google Mirror API is for puting stuff in front of user eye. As far as I know you can not get information from Google Glass with this API.
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#25"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 An…
I was also fairly disappointed, it looks like 5 out of 5 of my ideas for what I wanted to do with Glass can't be done with this API. But I'm hoping they wanted to get some basic / easier to implement API out as fast as possible while still working on more interesting support on a side (native apps, in particular).
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#26hm... only support for java and python. I hope they release a version for Go since it is Google's language.
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#27Apparently, it is possible to setup your future Google Glass today : https://glass.google.com/setup
I mean, you can go through and set up your network... but the setup process gets blocked when you need your actual device to sync.
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#28I used to think it was ethically questionable to add cameras and trackers to wild animals just so we could investigate their habits. Now human animals are doing this to themselves voluntarily.
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#30hm... only support for java and python. I hope they release a version for Go since it is Google's language.