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Ask HN: Is anynone on HN currently developing for Google glass?

Yes, a my coworker and I coded up a glass app in the last three days, and we're planning to open source a bulk of code responsible for integrating with the mirror API (we did it using rails, so the logic will be extracted into a gem). It's surprisingly simple to do once you've acclimated yourself to the mirror API.

Cool, i just finished watching a SXSW video and it seems like it is just a rest api. I assumed it would be more like mobile where you would get an SDK and could develop apps to be downloaded on to glass. Does this mean that if there is no wifi or 3g/4g access the glasses become useless?

Also it works off a realtime timeline which your app can subscribe to, inorder to receive 'cards' relative to your app. I couldn't help but think that this timeline is twitter on steroids, it could be a competitor to twitter.

I wouldn't say it becomes useless without wifi but definitely less useful. The timeline cards are saved to glass memory, so the content on them should theoretically be accessible without wifi.. I am under the impression that any actions performed without a connection get queued up, and then sent once connected, though I'm not perfectly certain that this is the case..

Twitter on steroids is actually a surprisingly accurate analogy, I think. Probably just about the most accurate description I've heard so far. Mostly I think people think of google glass as a HUD, which it isn't.. yet anyhow.

How did you test your app, did you just check to see if your app updated on the timeline correctly?

Mostly we used the glass playground, which you have access to if you have a pair of glasses. The playground doesn't perfectly represent the glass experience.. I say this mostly in regards to stylistic stuff (I.e. CSS rendering).

You can have access to the API keys if only one dev has glass, if they include you in their dev 'team' . This grants you access to the playground. I'll be writing stuff up about it soon, to more explicitly explain the whole procedure, since the documentation (while sufficient) is rather confusingly organized...

Google glass only supports WiFi and Bluetooth. It doesn't have 3g/4g support. It's useless by design without a smartphone to facilitate a connection.

The answer is probably yes, but what do you expect to learn and what do you want to know? Maybe make your request a little bit more specific.

I haven't heard any discussions on HN about this except for the product itself, usually when there is a new platform we see a number of little hacks and blogposts on HN about it but i haven't heard anything. I don't have anything specific, i just wanted to know if dev's on HN were playing around with it and if they had anything to say about their experience developing on it.

Well, you can't expect to cover every single aspect of the IT,but there is a huge probability.

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