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Apple and Facebook Should Be Terrified Of Google-Tinted Glasses. Google’s augmented reality eyewear is coming to disrupt your face and your business model.

Apple and Facebook Should Be Terrified Of Google-Tinted Glasses

If you don’t even have to pull your phone out to take a photo, get directions, or message with friends, why would you need to buy the latest iPhone or spend so much time on Facebook? It could be a year before Google eyewear reaches stores, but that’s why these and other tech companies need to strategize now. If they wait to see if the device is a hit, the world could be seeing through Google-tinted glasses by the time they adapt. Apple and Facebook’s bet might be to team up… If you haven’t heard, Google today announced it is beginning public tests of augmented reality glasses with the codename Project Glass. Cramming all the functionality into a sleek set of glasses is going to take time and effort, but the Google(x) skunklabs is on it.

Here’s what I see as their best courses of action: Apple Should Compete But Apple is the world’s greatest hardware company. Facebook Should Team Up With Apple. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, CNN And Evernote Apps Coming To Google Glass Today. Google announced a number of new partner apps today on stage at Google I/O during the “Developing for Glass” session.

Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, CNN And Evernote Apps Coming To Google Glass Today

Facebook and Twitter were the highlights of the list, which also included Evernote, Tumblr, Elle and CNN, in addition to the previously announced NYT and Path apps. The CNN app sends video to Glass via updates, and streams news to a browsable feed. It can alert users when there’s breaking news in a category that they want to follow, and those alerts can be customized to show up at specific times of day. They show up as text but can also be read aloud using the Mirror API. Screenshot_2013-05-16-11-13-11 Twitter The Twitter app provides your stream, as well as posting capabilities and the power to snap photos from Glass and post them direct to your stream.

Evernote Evernote on Glass holds true to its note-taking roll, giving users the ability to have their notes shared to Glass from the web or mobile apps. Facebook Elle Tumblr. Google Glass monthly update improves photos with HDR, captions. Google has committed to pushing software updates to its Glass headset each month, and a post on Google+ reveals this month's tweaks are focusing on pictures.

Google Glass monthly update improves photos with HDR, captions

If you're a fan of using the device for POV shots, it should take better pictures by capturing a sequence of images for improved low-light performance and HDR pictures in bright situations -- check out a gallery of enhanced images at the source link below. Also new is a prompt to add a caption after you take a picture. Users can tap their headset, speak the caption and it's automatically inserted. Last month's XE5 update addressed a wider range of issues, but this one will make sure any impromptu pictures (with your subject's full awareness and permission for the photo, we're sure) are high quality. How It Feels [through Glass]