Category Archives: Google Glass
Understanding Google Glass Development: How to get started?
We, the developer community, have been hopping around the development ecosystem and creating applications for web (technologies such as Java, .NET, PHP, Ruby, Scala etc) & mobile devices such as smartphones (running iOS, Android), tablet (running iOS, Android) etc. This year saw the release of Google Glass devices. Google has been doing enough to publicize the google glass and this is expected that there shall be need for Google Glass applications if Google Glass has to be accepted by mass users. That would require developers like us to take a stab at it and create some apps for Google Glass. If you are very new to google Glass, please read …
Go & .Net – New Additions to Google Glass Developer Kit
Till few weeks back, it was only Java, PHP and Python programmers who had the necessary support from Google Glass Mirror APIs for development purpose. Now, there are two more additions to the programming languages using which one can develop using Google Glass Mirror API. They are: GO (App Engine SDK for GO) .NET (.NET framework 4.0 or higher, ASP .NET MVC 3 web framework or higher, A web server) Quite a good move from Google to enhance the developer ecosystem and including large number of developer community.
Top 5 Google Glasswares Architecture Principles
If you are planning to get into google glasswares development, following is the list of top five architecture principles that should be kept in mind: 1. High Usability: With google glass device in the presentation layer, and owing to smaller display area of the timeline cards on the device, it is of utmost importance to plan content (texts/images/videos) including menu items to be displayed in the simpler form on timeline cards. The most simplest of them all is to have simple texts. However, the requirements may not be that simple and need for menus can always arise. To properly design content and menu for ease of navigation takes primary seat. …
Get a Google Wallet Free with a Google Glass!
If you are planning to buy one of those google glass device, be prepared to get google wallet account whether you like it or not.:-) This is because you may not be able to buy google glasses in other ways except by using google wallet. In addition to that, even if you are trying to gift the google glass to someone else, the recipient would require to have an account with google wallet for him/her to receive the support from Google. To add to the above, a person owning a google glass device also needs to maintain his/her google wallet account to receive after sales support. The information can …
Google Glass Development: Performance Tips
With google glass development, performance has to take center stage and software engineers, no more can afford to put performance testing on back burner. Following are some of the techniques for achieving high performance of glasswares: Compression (to beat Network Latency): Compression technique has been one of the most important aspect in getting faster download of your web pages. The primary reason have been to take care of network latency aspects which would impact glasswares performance much more. You may want to check the details on this on following page. The same technique also applies to google glasswares by enabling gzip compression. One needs to do following two things to …
Google Glass Glasswares Integration Pattern – Key to Performance
This is well understood that google glass can be integrated with glasswares over google cloud by making use of Google Mirror API. Lets try and understand what is the integration pattern (as of now) that is used for this integration. Glassware’s Performance: A Key Concern Before we go into discussion, this is given that performance is one of the most important concerns google glass developers would have to deal with. This is not about something like pages loading on one’s desktop/laptop or iPad where users could afford to wait. As cards appearing on google glass timelines appear directly near one’s eye, the expectation would be to get the operation performed …
Ok Glass, Show the Best Buy – Can that be the Killer Glassware?
Could this be the killer glassware app for Google Glass? Could this help boost the google glass adoption among consumers? Well, there has been smartphone applications using which one scans the Barcode of the product on the shelf and get the details about it. But, with google glass, it would be as easy as user looking at a product on the shelf and saying, “ok glass, show the best buy”. This would get him the most appropriate competitive products along with shop detail based on various factors some of which are listed below. Keep on reading… Let’s try and understand what might show up on google glass if someone says, …
Google Glass & Big Data – Boon for Crime Control
A class of bloggers & writers have been writing about the google glass hurting the privacy. Thus, this may pose barrier to widespread acceptance of google glass device. However, google glass shall surely act as a boon to crime control and sooner than later, government will get on board for acceptance for glass device for police personnel. Google Glass for Capturing Pictures from Crime Spot However, to think of one of the out-of-box benefits provided by google glass, which is “take a picture”, this may prove to be a boon to police department across the globe. Imagine police personnel start wearing a cool glass device. They could easily capture …
Google Glass Timeline: What is it?
Google glass timeline is one of the most important concepts to know if one wants to get started with Google glass project. Lets see the picture below to understand how does it look like? Before we go into details of what is timeline, lets try and understand the dictionary meaning of timeline? Following are some of the meanings posted by some of the well known dictionary websites: A linear representation of important events in the order in which they occurred…Dictionary.com a schedule of events and procedures…merriam-webster.com On a google glass device, information/message retrieval or submission can be considered as some kind of “event”. A set of information/messages or events can …
Google Glass Technology Stack
If you have been wondering on what would it take for someone to get up and running with google glass development. Following is a list of technologies that forms the technology stack for google glass: Web service protocol: REST Message format: JSON Google Client API: Java, .NET, PHP, Python, javascript, Ruby
Google Glass – Mirror API – Glasswares – High Level Architecture
If you have been trying to understand the architecture around google glass, I have tried to put it in simpler manner. Feel free to share your comment. Lets try and understand the above architecture: Glass users subscription to your service: You develop one or more web-based service for google glass and publish. These services can be termed as glasswares. Glass users subscribes to your service by logging on to your website authenticating themselves using OAuth 2.0 Glassware updates using Mirror API: Your google glassware then starts publishing to google glass cloud using mirror API. To be able to that, you must register your service with google cloud. Google Glass synchronizes …
Google Glass & Enterprise Adoption
With Google Glass Mirror API been published, all sorts of ideas have started floating around the internet. One such idea that I have been wondering upon is, how would enterprise adopt the Google glass. That means whether an enterprise would want to buy google glasses for its employees in the same way that some companies have been providing iPads to their employees in current scenario. There are multiple different reasons which may lead enterprise to adopt the google glass to certain class of employees to start with. Lets take a look at some of the scenarios. 1. Whiteboarding Pictures: As IT organizations have started moving to adoption of Agile SCRUM …
What does Google Glass Menu Look Alike?
Following is how the Google Glass Menu look like? How to work with google glass menu? All you have to do is say, “Ok Glass”. Once you said that, following default google glass menu items appear on the little screen shown above: google take a picture record a video get directions to… How you go about selecting a particular menu item? All you do is say one of the following: ok glass, google … ok glass, take a picture ok glass, record a video ok glass, get directions to…
Google Glass Development Kit for Developers At Large
Are you one of the hands-on types who is looking out to get their hands dirty with google glass project? Good news is that Google just released a set of webpages targeted for developers’ community only a few days back. You can access it here. What does this mean for developer community? We, developers, could get started on basic fundamentals and also, do some hands-on exercise. Currently, google development kit is only available for following two classes of developers: Java Python This essentially means that in case you are not familiar with Java or Python (open-source), you may have to quickly get on with these technologies to get started with …
Google Glass to Revolutionize Big Data
Google glass project, once in full swing and with full acceptance by consumers, will turn out to be a biggest source of data which could be treated best by applying big data technologies. Simply speaking, Big Data is data set having following characteristics: Volume Velocity Variety Veracity That said, Google Glass will add variety of data in greater volume at much greater velocity. Some of the existing big data technologies that can be thought to help great deal to store and process data acquired by Google Glass are following: Hadoop (HDFS & MapReduce) HBase for non-relational database to work with data stored with Hadoop Hive for business analytics Solr (Lucene) …
I found it very helpful. However the differences are not too understandable for me