Facebook Comes to Google Glass

 

Facebook has made its way to Google Glass. Sharing to Facebook, that is, in the form of a third-party app appropriately named “Glass to Facebook.”

Once connected to your Facebook account, the app lets you share pictures taken with Glass to your Facebook account. The process is exceptionally similar to the how the current third-party Twitter client works for Glass, in that it makes your Facebook account a contact with which you share photos.

We gave it a whirl, and it works as advertised. After connecting my Facebook account and adding the app as a contact I was able to share a photo I had taken outside of our office window onto Facebook.

Photos show up as a small square on your profile, but you can click into them to view them full screen.

It's worth noting that there’s currently a security alert on TesseractMobile’s website — the creator of the app — associated with the site’s root certificate. So install at your own risk.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Google’s Sergey Brin earlier this year that he couldn’t wait for Glass, which means we might see an official Facebook app come down the pipeline at some point as well.

Thumbnail Images Mashable, Screenshots Courtesy Mashable and Glass to Facebook

Google Glass: The First Stage of Something Bigger?

It occurs to me that Google Glass (or any technology) is a lot like a single-celled organism. It might sound like a strange analogy at first, but there is a lot of merit to the comparison. The most complex organisms on the planet are a result of single celled organisms interacting with one another and exchanging code. After a series of interactions and some time, those single celled organisms turned into all the life we see around us.

If Google Glass is considered a single-celled organism, it is in its earliest stage of development. While there is no shortage of neat uses, Google Glass might be the first stage of a much more impressive being.

An opinion piece on Mashable seemed to echo a few of my own thoughts. It opens up acknowledging that the Google Glass is under criticism and in some cases outright discrimination. However, the point is made that many gizmos and gadgets were a laughable concept at their inception. Remember the huge mobile telephone of the 90’s? I think that caught on after a couple of tweaks.

Google Glass might be a laughable concept now because it hasn’t even been given a real opportunity. The inhibitive cost is sure to hurt a lot of would-be Google Glass users as well as the fear of damaging it. Consider the device’s evolution. It is easily foreseeable to incorporate some kind of motion sensing technology akin to the X-box’s Kinect to navigate an interface my tracking hand movements or even eye movements. New methods of transferring messages or sharing video feeds are bound to develop.

Movies and animations have depicted technology that is not all that different from a set of hi-tech glasses. Literally plugging into a computer, collars that send signals to communicate with the brain and other collars, and projecting data in holographic form are all examples of possible paths of development.

People at large have proven that they are committed to constant communication and social media contact with portable computers and intricate cell phones. Google Glass is not so much altering what we do with social devices but is likely the first step in altering how we socialize.

While we scoff at the idea of wearing a phone on our faces, there was a time where it seemed outlandish to send a letter electronically. Bring on the future Google! Let your single cells create digital life!