Tag Archives: glassware

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 …

Continue reading

Posted in Google Glass. Tagged with , , .

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, …

Continue reading

Posted in Big Data, Google Glass. Tagged with , , .

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 …

Continue reading

Posted in Google Glass. Tagged with , , .

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 …

Continue reading

Posted in Google Glass. Tagged with , , .