Wednesday, May 29, 2013

First apps for Google Glass: porn and face detection with Google's ... - ABC Online

Google cyber goggles long Glass is still not on the market, but U.S. developers already working meticulously on the first apps. Face Detection shopping, by voice and porn movies -. Ideas are limitless

Siamak Ashrafi looks as if it were connected to the matrix. From the head of the man leads a thick black cable away. Everything he does is so transferred onto a large screen. Better said, All that the “Google Glass” glasses sees before his eyes. But maybe that’s soon anyway one and the same, one’s field of view and the.

Google Ashrafi is one of the chosen testers around 2000 cyber goggles Google Glass. On a stage in San Francisco, he shows what the device can do. If the bioinformatics of Glass says, there are plenty of euphoric sets. “It’s like magic,” “it’s addictive”, it is “absolutely amazing”.


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“OK, Glass,” said Ashrafi and so enabled the glasses – basically just a wide frame with a glass cube on one side, on the display. Ashrafi could alternatively nod with his head, or the blue frame with a finger tap to wake them up. In the field of view appear so far only a few options: snap a photo, record video, route planning, e-mails. “How do you say hello in Japanese?” Asks Ashrafi. “Konichiwa,” replies the glasses and displays the word in front of his eyes and on the canvas

. “Which is the tallest building in the world?” – A picture of the Burj Khalifa appears, standing next 830 meters. You can see the glasses even after the next Starbucks or a gas station to ask a colorful arrow in the eyes then points the way like in a video game. The voice control works surprisingly well. Only one returns the glasses instead of the translation into Chinese by mistake a movie review. The answers only hear the carrier, because the glasses sends signals via the acoustic vibrations to your ear

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But as impressive control of Glass is also: So far, there is little to control it, just five menu items to choose from. What Ashrafi therefore particularly fascinated by the spectacle is to hack and aufzuspielen own apps. Twitter was already reached by the glass, breaking news of the “New York Times” as well, would ever watch it. A developer has a program for the glasses wrote to shop speaking at Amazon, another tinkers an app to have on the golf course is always the current score in the eyes.

div “Glassware” called Google these novel Eyeglasses applications. Your content is usually displayed on this black cards, the “Timeline” cards. With one touch the frame of the glasses you can sweep aside the cards left and right. There are “Glassagram”, a kind of Instagram for Glass, first image editing programs and games.

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