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Jan 16, 2013 12:19pm
Google’s Project Glass is Ready, but for Developers’ Eyes Only
Let’s start with the good news: Google‘s about to start to talking a bit more about its Project Glass this month — you know, those futuristic, Internet-connected glasses that show digital information right in front of your eyes, projected over the physical world.
The bad news? For the moment, they’re just for software developers.
The company is holding two events — one in New York City and another in San Fransisco — where it will give software developers an early look at the spectacles. “Join us for an early look at Glass and two full days of hacking on the upcoming Google Mirror API in San Francisco or New York,” Google said in an email invite it sent out to those who signed up to be on its developers list. These software and app creators will get a device to use on site and will come up with different software ideas and tie-ins.
MORE: Google Glasses Designer Gives Us An Up-Close Look
“These hackathons are just for developers in the Explorer program and we’re calling them the Glass Foundry,” the invite goes on to say. Nope, the average Joe can’t show up to see the glasses or take them home. Over the last few weeks, some have been spotted wearing the glasses around New York City. One tester was wearing a pair with prescription lenses.
“We’re looking forward to what developers will do with Glass, but we don’t have more details to share at this time,” said a Google spokesperson when ABC News asked about the upcoming events.
At Google’s I/O conference in June, Google co-founder Sergey Brin announced that prototypes or “Explorer Editions” of the glasses would be sold to developers for $1,500 in early 2013. Click for the video Google released last year to show the possibilities of Glass.
Google’s Project Glass is Ready, but for Developers’ Eyes Only
Let’s start with the good news: Google‘s about to start to talking a bit more about its Project Glass this month — you know, those futuristic, Internet-connected glasses that show digital information right in front of your eyes, projected over the physical world.
The bad news? For the moment, they’re just for software developers.
The company is holding two events — one in New York City and another in San Fransisco — where it will give software developers an early look at the spectacles. “Join us for an early look at Glass and two full days of hacking on the upcoming Google Mirror API in San Francisco or New York,” Google said in an email invite it sent out to those who signed up to be on its developers list. These software and app creators will get a device to use on site and will come up with different software ideas and tie-ins.
MORE: Google Glasses Designer Gives Us An Up-Close Look
“These hackathons are just for developers in the Explorer program and we’re calling them the Glass Foundry,” the invite goes on to say. Nope, the average Joe can’t show up to see the glasses or take them home. Over the last few weeks, some have been spotted wearing the glasses around New York City. One tester was wearing a pair with prescription lenses.
“We’re looking forward to what developers will do with Glass, but we don’t have more details to share at this time,” said a Google spokesperson when ABC News asked about the upcoming events.
At Google’s I/O conference in June, Google co-founder Sergey Brin announced that prototypes or “Explorer Editions” of the glasses would be sold to developers for $1,500 in early 2013. Click for the video Google released last year to show the possibilities of Glass.
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Was That Sergey Brin Wearing Google Glasses in the New York Subway?
He’s a self-made tech mogul worth billions, but that didn’t stop Google co-founder Sergey Brin from riding the New York City subway this weekend. Brin, 39, who ranks No. 20 on Forbes’ annual list of most powerful people, may have blended in on the downtown-bound No. 3 train in his jeans and pullover were it not for his futuristic, high-tech glasses.
A tech buff said he spotted Brin, who now heads up special projects for Google, riding the subway wearing a prototype of the much-buzzed about glasses from Google's Project Glass, which are promised to overlay digital information on the physical world.
"Yeeeah… I just had a brief conversation with the most powerful man in the world. On the downtown 3 train," Noah Zerkin, a self-proclaimed "wearable computing and augmented reality enthusiast," tweeted with a photo of Brin in the glasses. “Nice guy.
Brin was wearing - or presumably testing - the glasses, which are billed as searching the Internet and showing you anything you need, right in front of your eyes, from maps of where you are to the weather forecast if you look up. You can connect the glasses to a phone via Bluetooth and use the phone's 3G or 4G connection. There's also a camera on the front that can take photos of whatever you are seeing; you can share the photos instantly.
Noah Zerkin, a self-proclaimed "wearable computing and augmented reality enthusiast," said he was the first to spot Brin.
Brin last publicly showed off the glasses in June at Google's I/O conference. He presided at the Moscone Center in San Francisco as sky divers, who were also wearing the glasses, jumped out of a plane above and streamed live video from their glasses right to a screen on stage at the conference.
At the end of the month Google will hold an event for software developers. The developers' version of the glasses, which cost $1,500, are expected to be available to software makers later this year.
Was That Sergey Brin Wearing Google Glasses in the New York Subway?
He’s a self-made tech mogul worth billions, but that didn’t stop Google co-founder Sergey Brin from riding the New York City subway this weekend. Brin, 39, who ranks No. 20 on Forbes’ annual list of most powerful people, may have blended in on the downtown-bound No. 3 train in his jeans and pullover were it not for his futuristic, high-tech glasses.
A tech buff said he spotted Brin, who now heads up special projects for Google, riding the subway wearing a prototype of the much-buzzed about glasses from Google's Project Glass, which are promised to overlay digital information on the physical world.
"Yeeeah… I just had a brief conversation with the most powerful man in the world. On the downtown 3 train," Noah Zerkin, a self-proclaimed "wearable computing and augmented reality enthusiast," tweeted with a photo of Brin in the glasses. “Nice guy.
Brin was wearing - or presumably testing - the glasses, which are billed as searching the Internet and showing you anything you need, right in front of your eyes, from maps of where you are to the weather forecast if you look up. You can connect the glasses to a phone via Bluetooth and use the phone's 3G or 4G connection. There's also a camera on the front that can take photos of whatever you are seeing; you can share the photos instantly.
Noah Zerkin, a self-proclaimed "wearable computing and augmented reality enthusiast," said he was the first to spot Brin.
Brin last publicly showed off the glasses in June at Google's I/O conference. He presided at the Moscone Center in San Francisco as sky divers, who were also wearing the glasses, jumped out of a plane above and streamed live video from their glasses right to a screen on stage at the conference.
At the end of the month Google will hold an event for software developers. The developers' version of the glasses, which cost $1,500, are expected to be available to software makers later this year.
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