Google Glass and its first applications mark the way forward

When Larry Page and Sergey Brin 1997 began a project of search that Google would become, do could not imagine the incredible popularity that this could reach, let alone the incredible diversity that Google would end up with.

From one of the email services used the world over to interactive maps covering half the world not only with satellite images but also in first person feeds through tools, calendars and agendas, Google is an empire that has grown little little, but by leaps and bounds.

Eventually, Google would leave computers, and projects like Google Fiber, which aim to change the Internet connections, are showing. However, in the world of smartphones, have something much closer, the brand Nexus. With Nexus, Google would start having its own devices, 100% designed and manufactured for them by others, but always along the lines of the company’s Mountain View.

Their latest device project goes beyond itself. These Google Glass glasses and augmented reality are something that will allow us to see through them and interact with our environment so as to the typical applications of a smartphone. And it is precisely here that we want to focus today on applications.

The sense of Google Glass is not easy if you do not have examples of what we can do with them, and taking pictures and videos is too little for what this idea is like. These days, the fair is being held at SXSW, where we talk about quite a bit, always focused on technology, but also from branches like music and movies. Yesterday, we talked more about his glasses, and he is focused on applications. Indeed, we came to teach some already running, leading the way for this project to follow.

Himself, Sergey Brin said Google Glass is a project that changes from week to week, and that is not something concrete, but is in constant motion, always seeking the best you can be and what can work areas and uses better. With the help of the developers and the community that surrounds the world of innovation at Google, we will gradually better define the lines will have to follow Google Glass, but it is clear that the applications are one of the most important.

Basically, what applications are really teaching us what we can do with something, and when selling the product and demonstrating their potential, are essential. So Google is starting to show it. Among those that could be seen yesterday, highlight Gmail, able to recognize gestures of the eyes and read us or allow us to answer emails thanks to speech dictation, Evernote, allowing us to take pictures with the camera and share them on Google Glass Sktich, or Path, you can imagine how well that combined with a product that directly sees everything we do. It could become the evolution of the social network of the future.

Now, when Google Glass will be able to start showing its potential and show if it really is a product that will help us in the future, or be left alone as a wonderful futuristic idea, but has not quite convinced us. For now, there are few applications that have been taught, but remember we are in a very early stage of product development, and that will change constantly, looking for what is the best way to go.

What do you think about the future of Google Glass? Do you really find your niche in the market, or do you find it hard to see something like that work?