Creating apps for Google Glass is more involved than simply learning how to navigate its hardware, APIs, and SDK. You also need the right mindset. While this practical book delivers the information and techniques you need to build and deploy Glass applications, it also helps you to think for Glass by showing you how the platform works in, and affects, its environment. In three parts - Discover, Design, and Develop - Glass pioneers guide you through the Glass ecosystem and demonstrate what this wearable computer means for users, developers, and society as a whole. You'll learn how to create rich functionality for a consumer technology that's radically different than anything currently available. Learn the Five Noble Truths of great Glassware design Understand the Glass ecosystem and learn why it's different Sidestep Glass's societal concerns in your projects Learn how Glass adapts to the user's world, rather than the other way around Avoid poor design by identifying Glassware antipatterns Build cloud services with the Google Mirror API Use the Glass Development Kit to develop client applications Submit your project for review in the MyGlass directory
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Dimensions: 178mm
Publication Date: 27 Jan 2015
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781491946459
About Allen Firstenberg
By day Allen is a Senior Project Engineer at http://spiders.com/ where he has been instrumental in creating websites and mobile apps for companies and organizations from the American Booksellers Association to the National Science Foundation. By night he dons his super-coder cloak and creates tools software and tutorials to help people share their stories and improve their digital lives. Allen is a https://developers.google.com/experts/members/Google Developer Exper recognized by Google as one of the leaders in the developer community for Google+ and Google Glass and is a Glass Explorer and Pioneer having attended the New York Glass Foundry event run by Google in early 2013. software developer marketer broadcaster sportswriter and filmmaker Jason enjoys perpetual summer living on the island of Guam. He fell in love with the Web the moment he first got online in 1994 seeing it as the world's biggest toy and began helping people embrace the Internet before shifting his focus to content development and ultimately to designing data-driven systems. In the last few years he's been concentrating on Google Glass Hangout extensions HTML5 games and Chromecast apps. Since 1999 he's worked at http://kuam.com where he runs the company's R&D group and also co-anchors the nightly news http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIlG6gCPSt8(no really).