{"id":650734,"date":"2013-04-05T00:13:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T04:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=792710"},"modified":"2013-04-05T00:13:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T04:13:30","slug":"couldnt-make-it-to-sxsw-now-you-can-learn-about-google-glass-and-the-mirror-api-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650734","title":{"rendered":"Couldn&#8217;t Make It To SXSW? Now You Can Learn About Google Glass And The Mirror API On YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"70\" src=\"http:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/glass-demo.png?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-tc-carousel-river-thumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"glass-demo\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 7px 0;\" \/><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='640' height='360' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JpWmGX55a40?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d wager that most of you reading this didn&#8217;t make it out to Austin for SXSW, and even fewer of you still have ever gotten some hands-on time with Google&#8217;s ambitious Glass project. On the off chance that you&#8217;ve been spending these past few weeks agonizing over all the juicy Glass tidbits you missed out on by not being there, you can rest easy &#8212; Google has posted the full video of its 50 minute Glass session <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=JpWmGX55a40\">on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The talk &#8212; titled &#8220;Building New Experiences with Glass&#8221; featured Senior Developer Advocate Timothy Jordan giving attendees (and now you) a brief rundown on what it&#8217;s actually like using Google Glass. We&#8217;ve seen these sorts of hands-on impressions <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/2\/22\/4013406\/i-used-google-glass-its-the-future-with-monthly-updates\">in the past<\/a>, but Jordan&#8217;s session managed to give attendees a clearer idea of what the Glass interface actually looks like while he&#8217;s rubbing away at the side-mounted trackpad or checking out updates from his Google+ pals.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, Jordan&#8217;s session provided those on-site developers a glimpse at what it actually takes to build services for the head-mounted display. In it, he made multiple references to how simple the development process actually was (it&#8217;s &#8220;not complex,&#8221; as he puts it), but there&#8217;s more than enough meat here to give potential Glass developers a taste of what they&#8217;re in for. In the end though, Jordan was bullish on what Glass means for how we as users interact with our gadgetry &#8212; he didn&#8217;t go as far as saying traditional touchscreens were &#8220;emasculating&#8221; like <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/03\/22\/watch-googles-sergey-brin-talk-about-the-emasculating-smartphone-and-google-glass\/\">a certain other Google employee<\/a>, but he pointed out that current modes of interaction tend to separate us from the events and experiences of our lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels like tech is often getting in the way more than it needs to,&#8221; Jordan remarked. &#8220;And that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re addressing with Project Glass &#8212; it&#8217;s so that you can still have access to the technology you love, but it doesn&#8217;t take you out of the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jordan and his employers at Google may think we&#8217;ll love Glass, but the real jury has yet to weigh in. While Google is prepping Glass for a widespread consumer release at the end of this year, it has also reached out to thousands of would-be Glass Explorers about claiming their own $1,500 tester units. So far the search giant has been exceedingly careful about who has gotten to play with its vision of the future, but that&#8217;s all about to change in short order.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tctechcrunch2011.wordpress.com\/792710\/\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=ar4PV7FHVAA:ZRDCY9Ze6DU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=ar4PV7FHVAA:ZRDCY9Ze6DU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=ar4PV7FHVAA:ZRDCY9Ze6DU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=ar4PV7FHVAA:ZRDCY9Ze6DU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=ar4PV7FHVAA:ZRDCY9Ze6DU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d wager that most of you reading this didn&#8217;t make it out to Austin for SXSW, and even fewer of you still have ever gotten some hands-on time with Google&#8217;s ambitious Glass project. On the off chance that you&#8217;ve been spending these past few weeks agonizing over all the juicy Glass tidbits you missed out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}