Google Glass
Couldn’t Make It To SXSW? Now You Can Learn About Google Glass And The Mirror API On YouTube
I’d wager that most of you reading this didn’t make it out to Austin for SXSW, and even fewer of you still have ever gotten some hands-on time with Google’s…
Google Glass Early Adopters Want To Build Learning, Healthcare, Accessibility & Safety Apps
Wondering who has won a Google Glass? Stanford PhD student Andrej Karpathy has used Twitter’s API to compile a partial list of the so far close to 4,000 winners of…
Questionable Entries Prompt Google To Retract Some Glass Explorer Invitations
Google made plenty of nerds happy earlier this week when it began reaching out to the 8,000 people that would have the privilege of spending $1,500 on the company’s head-mounted…
Google Glass Will Be Made In The U.S.A., Report Claims, At An Assembly Facility In Santa Clara
Google Glass, the advanced head-mounted computing project the company is gearing up for a possible launch later this year, will be assembled in the U.S., according to a new report…
Google To Send Out Invites To Its Glass Explorer Program Over The Next Few Days, No Word On When It Plans To Ship Them
Google just announced that it will send out invitations in the next few days to those who participated in its #ifihadglass campaign. Later this week, it will contact those who…
Sony Patent Reveals Google Glass Competitor With A Head Mounted Display For Each Eye
Watch out, Google. A recently published patent application reveals that Sony’s head mounted display glasses are progressing down the evolutionary path rather nicely. What once amounted to just wide-eyed concepts,…
LG Is Also Said To Be Building A Smartwatch And Google Glass Competitor, As Is Everyone
If you’re looking for a smartwatch in the next few years, you likely won’t want for choice. A new report pegs LG as developing its own take on the new…
Watch Google’s Sergey Brin Talk About The Emasculating Smartphone And Google Glass
Google co-founder Sergey Brin took the stage at the TED Conference late in February, delivering a talk about Google Glass in which he dropped his now infamous quote about smartphones…
Gillmor Gang: Attention Surplus Disorder
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — enjoys a week of actual tech news for the first time in quite a…
Who’s Afraid Of Google Glass?
“First you see video. Then you wear video. Then you eat video. Then you be video.” — Pat Cadigan, Pretty Boy Crossover Sheesh. A whole lot of people who presumably…
Google Confirms Glass Will Eventually Work With Prescription Lenses
Geeks rejoice! Hot off exciting news from SXSW, Google just confirmed via the Google Glass G+ page that Glass will, of course, work with prescription lenses — that is, in…
Google Details Glass Mirror API At SXSW, Shows Off Gmail, NYT, Evernote And Path Integrations
At SXSW this afternoon, Google provided developers with a first glance at the Google Glass Mirror API, the main interface between Google Glass, Google’s servers and the apps that developers…
Google Glass App Identifies People By Clothes, Hints At Tech That Could Counter Face Blindness
That problem where you’re meeting someone for the first time, maybe to pick up something you bought through Craigslist? Google Glass can help with that. A new app designed for…
There’s very little to be said about this viral video except that it’s a cute rendition of what will happen for maybe the first two weeks after Google Glass is…
Google Glass’ Women Problems
If you build it, they will come. Perhaps. And only if you don’t chase them away. Recently Google co-founder Sergey Brin took to the stage at the TED “Ideas Worth…
#youdidntgetglass Google Has Closed Registrations For Their #ifihadglass Pre-Order Ploy
Google has officially shut down registrations for its #ifihadglass round of Google Glass pre-orders/applications. The competition was first announced on February 20, asking prospective Google Glass buyers to take to…
Shapes Of Things
Sure, there’s a second screen these days. But it’s not the one you might think. The second screen is the TV, where the decaying rules remain in force as network…
Google Glass Is As Much About Working With Our Past As Our Future
Google Glass is here but not quite here yet. What it will do to the way we live and work sometimes feels like a page out of an illustration of…
New Atlantic Ventures’ John Backus On Google Glass, The Battle For The Living Room, And Impending Cyberwar
Some of the best conversations I have about the tech space are with investors — along with being rich and generally smart, they seem to have the best predictive insights…
Google Confirms That Project Glass Will Work With iPhone
After making a visit to a disappointingly bland Google conference room behind frosted-glass doors in New York, the Verge’s Joshua Topolsky got some hands-on time with Glass and his in-depth…
Google Glass Targeting End Of 2013 Consumer Release, With Price Tag Under $1,500
Google seems to be looking to bring its ambitious Google Glass wearable computer to market much faster than many likely anticipated, according to the Verge. Google told the site that…
New Google Glass Patent Is The Most Comprehensive Yet For Google’s Face-Based Wearable Computer
The USPTO has published a new patent application today from Google, which describes in comprehensive detail the complete system that would go on to become Google Glass, originally filed in…
Google Reportedly In Talks With Warby Parker To Design Stylish Google Glass Frames
Google is reportedly in talks with Warby Parker to make glasses that look less like Geordi La Forge’s eyewear and more like something a style-conscious person in the early 21st…
Google Finally Shows Off Google Glass UI, Announces #ifihadglass Purchase Campaign
Google is slowly pulling down Google Glass’ veil of secrecy. With each announcement, the company reveals a bit more of its secrets. This time around, the video above shows Google…
Get Ready For Even More Google Glasshole Sightings
A whole new group of Google Glass developers are expected to be getting their hands on the devices this week, coinciding with two meetups that Google is throwing for developers…
Google Announces First Project Glass Hackathons In NYC And SF, Will Detail ‘Mirror API’
Over the last year, Google has slowly been unveiling its plans around Project Glass, the company’s R&D program responsible for attempting to bring wearable computing to the mainstream. Complete with…
Google’s Mobile Future Is Now
Google Now may be one of Google’s most underrated new products of 2012, but I think it will turn out to be Google’s killer mobile product in the long run.…
Apple Patent A Reminder That It’s Working On Google Glass-Style Wearable Tech, Too
An Apple patent published yesterday by the USPTO and unearthed by Patently Apple is a reminder that Apple was actually working on wearable tech in the form of content-delivery glasses,…
Microsoft Patent Shows It’s Working On A Google Glass Type Device Of Its Own
Microsoft had a new patent application published with the USPTO today which shows a glasses-based heads-up display system that could overlay information on the real world for a user. If…
How Mobile Can You Go? A Mobile Take On Q3 Tech Earnings
Editor’s note: Jay Jamison is a Partner at BlueRun Ventures and is based in Menlo Park. Wall Street is basically demanding big public tech companies to answer the question, “How mobile can…