How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Google Glass

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love
Google GLΛSS
Wolf Loescher

DevFestMN

February 8, 2014

Wolf Loescher
@wloescher
@wloescher #devfest-mn #glass

Overview
What is it?
What can you do with it?
What can’t you do with it?
What’s it like to wear all day?
Where/when can I get one?
How do I develop apps for it?

What is it?
Google Glass (styled "GLΛSS") is a wearable
computer with an optical head-mounted
display (OHMD) that is being developed by
Google in the Project Glass research and
development project, with a mission of
producing a mass-market ubiquitous
computer. Google Glass displays information in
a smartphone-like hands-free format, that can
communicate with the Internet via natural
language voice commands.

“A Segway for your face.”

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Tech Specs (1 of 2)
Display: 640x360px (25” screen 8’ away)

Camera: 5 MP still, 720p video

Audio: Bone conduction transducer

Connectivity: Wiﬁ 802.111b/g, Bluetooth

OS: Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich)

CPU: OMAP4430 1.2Ghz Dual Core

RAM: 682Mb

Storage: 16Gb (12Gb available)

Tech Specs (2 of 2)
Sensors
!Gyroscope

!Accelerometer

!Magnetometer (compass)

!Ambient light sensor

GPS

Cellular Connectivity

CDMA

GSM

What’s New in v2?

Basic Commands
“OK Glass…”
“google…”

“take a picture” - vignettes

“record a video”

“get directions to…”

“send a message to…”

“make a call to…”

“make a video call to…”

“take a note with…”

The Timeline
Past events on the right

Future events and settings on the left

Timeline cards can be text, images, rich HTML, or video

Email, phone calls, SMS, news, alerts, etc.

Live Demo?

Wearing It All Day
“Is that Google Glass?”

“Where did you get it?”

“How much did it cost?”

“Do you work for Google?”

“Can you get me a job at Google?”

Google GLΛSS Explorers Ambassadors
Twitter contest #iﬁhadglass

Gloriﬁed beta testers

Excellent customer service

Glassware
➔CNN

➔Evernote

➔Facebook

➔Field Trip

➔Now, GMail, G+

➔Twitter

➔NY Times

➔Path
➔Elle

➔Fancy

➔KitchMe

➔Mashable Velocity

➔SportYapper

➔Thuuz Sports

➔Tumblr

Development (1 of 3)
Python Ruby
Go

To interact with a user's timeline, you call the
appropriate RESTful endpoint to carry out the
action that you want to do. Google handles all of
the necessary details of syncing between your
Glassware and your users' Glass.
Google
Glassware Glass
HTTP (REST) Glass Sync

POST /mirror/v1/timeline HTTP/1.1
Host: www.googleapis.com
Authorization: Bearer {auth token}
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 26
!
{ "text": "Hello world" }

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The Good
+ Great photos and video
+ Build quality is good, but fragile
+ Relatively easy to develop for
!
The Bad
- Battery life - won’t last full day
- Retail price?
- New marketplace

The Ugly

Privacy is Dead

Questions?
@wloescher
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Google Glass

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