Google’s ambitious Glass display is still a ways off from its
public release, but it looks like those newly minted Glass Explorers now
have something else to do besides taking first-person photos. The New
York Times just pulled back the curtain on its own
Glass-friendly app today,
which makes it the first installable third-party app available for the
ambitious headset (Path was technically the first third-party app, but
it’s preloaded on early versions of the device).
It’s no surprise to see the Grey Lady embrace Glass so
enthusiastically — Google developer advocate Timothy Jordan first showed
off an early version of the New York Times Glass app at SXSW 2013 in Austin
,
which pipes new news and headlines to the head-mounted display at
regular intervals. Navigating through that stream of news seemed easy
enough: a quick tilt of the head would allow the user to sift through
photos and full articles, as well.
Setting up the app is a simple process — clicking on the link above asks for access to your Google account:
Once that’s all done, Glass can occasionally chime in by reading
headlines in your ear, but the app is also capable of reading off brief
article summaries too. All told it seems like a very neat, (if strangely
intrusive way) to consume your daily dose of news, and other companies
have already pledged to craft their own Glass experiences — Path and the
New York Times are a given, but Evernote and supposedly even Twitter are working on apps for Google’s daring device.
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