Glass in China: seeking more Chinese applications

Absrtact: Since the Google Glass appeared on the bridge of the nose of Google CEO Larry, the bold predictions about a liberating hand (hands-free) are gradually circulating in the industry. However, whether from the application development or the hardware price, Glass wants to arrive from the laboratory to the common use

Since Google Glass appeared on the bridge of the nose of Google CEO Larry Page, the bold predictions about a "free hand" (hands-free) are spreading in the industry. However, whether from the application development or the hardware price, Glass has a long way to go to reach the ordinary users from the laboratory.

This section of the road in the eyes of businessmen, see the uncertainty of profitability. In the Geek eye, more room for imagination.

Glass in China: seeking more Chinese applications

Developer He Yingqi (Anson Ho) usually goes out and takes his Google Glass as much as possible. He was in the interview with Tencent Technology, Beijing is under the drizzle, the orange glass men in the security surprised eyes, head into the building.

He Yingqi is the GDG organizer and Bestapp Studio CEO of the Guangzhou Google (Weibo) developer community, and his team is China's first Google Glass development team. In early June this year, American friends transferred the Orange-red first developer version of Google Glass to He Yingqi, who successfully unlocked Glass's American ID with a friend help. Because Google Glass social tools Facebook and Twitter cannot be used in China, Glass has lost the ability to share photos in China. He Yingqi's idea was: "Why can't you just share photos with Google Glass on Chinese social networks?" "The first Google Glass photo-sharing app for China was born Xshare. He Yingqi has successfully obtained the interface of Sina Weibo, and through xshare he can successfully share the photos taken by glass on Sina Weibo, and talks with the micro-letter are still in progress.

Hand xshare After, still not enjoyable. He Yingqi and his team decided to design a weather application: PM2.5. This is also the world's first Chinese Google Glass application. "The whole development time is less than a week, writing code in a few days, the main focus on the text translation." "What revealed.

PM2.5 data from the National Environmental Protection Agency, HE Yingqi the data interface after the public, 3 months down, there are nearly 100 million of data distribution, 56,000 requests for data, including Baidu, NetEase, search, Bing and so on. In the excitement, He Yingqi also began to realize that a person playing glass is not enough, not wonderful. He said he would publish all the code and provide a glass application development template for interested developers.

But the question is, how many developers can China get Google Glass?

He Yingqi found Google Vice president and founder Sergey complained: "Unfair, why only sell Glass to Americans?" Brin explains that developers are required to participate regularly in Google Glass developer community discussions and conferences. He Yingqi that Glass is a forward-looking product, Chinese developers should not lose at the starting line. "There are so many developers in the country who are interested in glass, but getting a pair of glass is the basis for a real dream." ”

He Yingqi to Tencent Technology, now he started a white Google Glass, the future will also try to bring back more from the United States.

How big is Glass's imaginary space?

Glass is an English voice operation of the hardware, for the Chinese to use Chinese, glass instant more than an insurmountable barrier, oral English is not good, it is very likely that there is no way to activate. On this point, He Yingqi said he has been thinking for a long time, he has recently submitted to the United States headquarters a Chinese input method for the record.

Glass through its own camera can be the user's palm as a WordPad, follow the finger on the palm of the track to identify, so as to enter Chinese into the system. In other words, we can write on the palm of the hand and input it directly into the glass system.

For now, the idea of technology is not too much of a hindrance, and Google's headquarters has adopted the program into their databases.

If this input problem is solved, the glass imagination space will be very big. He said that he has now been with the Orange hotel and other domestic hotels and businesses are gradually discussing the development prospects of glass.

One of his ideas is to offer a glass-themed experience in a hotel room where users can manipulate all the facilities through glass. You can imagine a scenario like this: the user enters the theme room, wears on the Google Glass, lies in a big chair, extends the left hand palm to write down oneself needs the room temperature, opens the bathroom lamp, the bathtub starts to water, the ear music rings, or lets the Glass read the news for you, bored can use Glass to turn on the television , with glass channels, online shopping, booking tickets, recommend the best hotel tonight, all this can be done quietly lying.

In addition, as a football enthusiast, He Yingqi has also discussed cooperation with the Guangzhou Evergrande football team. One of the newest players in the game is to implant a surveillance chip in a player's sole and record the player's movement data. In response to this technology, He Yingqi hopes to be able to direct the player's foot data directly to the coach's Google Glass, through the application of data analysis to visually show the athlete's physical condition. In the game, the coach can be more objective to measure the performance of their players.

He Yingqi also revealed that next year the MBA referee will wear Google Glass game video, the audience at the end of the game can see a referee from the point of view of the game, but also in the referee's structure to be challenged by fans as a strong reference standard.