The main one is that you have to drive to LA or NY to get it, at your own cost, and pay $1,500 for it. So it's like Valve saying you can have a review copy of Half-Life 3 for $500 if you can get to Bellevue on your own dime. Oh, and it might not be the finished product. Congrats.
I'm near LA. If I'd be allowed to pick it up and ship it for anyone, I'd be more than willing to do someone the solid.
I'm near NY and I'd definitely pick it up for you. Can't say that I'll ship it quickly, though. I might have to play around with it for a few days (or months).
To be fair, I didn't read it because I didn't apply. ;-) I'd also argue it's part of modern culture to not read the terms and conditions of things. EULAs on games had a large part in that.
The API doesn't seem to expose information from the camera at this point. Pretty disappointing, I hope this changes.
What information do you need? Photos taken by the camera can be shared to any Glassware with the built-in menu item, so if you're writing a Twitter Glassware application, a user would select the photo they took, choose "share," then choose the name of your application, and then it would be posted to your Twitter assuming you wrote a handler for it on your end.
The API doesn't seem to expose information from the camera at this point. Pretty disappointing, I hope this changes.
What information do you need? Photos taken by the camera can be shared to any Glassware with the built-in menu item, so if you're writing a Twitter Glassware application, a user would select the photo they took, choose "share," then choose the name of your application, and then it would be posted to your Twitter assuming you wrote a handler for it on your end.
True, but suppose you want to analyze some video in real-time, now what?
Also found in the tech specs: compatible with ANY bluetooth-enabled phone. Only caveat is that GPS and SMS require Android 4.0.3.
I was considering grabbing a Nexus 4 if I needed it to go full-compatible with Glass, and selling my Lumia 920. I probably still will but at least now I know I don't have to run out and do it immediately. Good to see the API and stuff is up. I'm going to have to set aside some serious time to sharpen my coding skills.
When this hits, Rym and Scott should just do a couple of vids, taken through glass explaining how all the stuff works. Hell, just do a geeknights episode with accompanying footage seen through one of their glasses. We can all pretend to be Rym while Scott makes funny faces in our general direction.
I've never been more motivated to write software than I am right now. The trouble is that I'll have to focus mostly on display ideas. The grand stuff like auto-lookups of obstacles and rules based on words said in a Burning Wheel game are beyond by abilities.
Another "if you have Google Glass you're an asshole" blog post, but it ends with "I want one anyway" so I'm not really sure what's going on. https://medium.com/editors-picks/5d6c76c2039
He didn't even need to develop his own hack. I take it they meant that loading your own APKs on stock systems would be removed when they said Google approval only.
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I'm near LA. If I'd be allowed to pick it up and ship it for anyone, I'd be more than willing to do someone the solid.
It is a bit disappointing that they have picked some people seemingly at random though.
https://developers.google.com/glass
http://support.google.com/glass/answer/3064128?hl=en&ref_topic=3063354
I was considering grabbing a Nexus 4 if I needed it to go full-compatible with Glass, and selling my Lumia 920. I probably still will but at least now I know I don't have to run out and do it immediately. Good to see the API and stuff is up. I'm going to have to set aside some serious time to sharpen my coding skills.
I've never been more motivated to write software than I am right now. The trouble is that I'll have to focus mostly on display ideas. The grand stuff like auto-lookups of obstacles and rules based on words said in a Burning Wheel game are beyond by abilities.
https://medium.com/editors-picks/5d6c76c2039
"This has changed my life. I will never live a day without it on."
He has also said on Twitter that all of the critics, such as those mentioned in previous posts in this thread, that "the critics of Glass are very wrong, very wrong indeed. This is a magical product. Life changing."
You stupid idiot.