Google has released sample code for mini-games on their developers site to showcase game development abilities on the Google Glass. Examples include Tennis, Balance, Clay Shooter, Matcher and Shape Splitter. All are extremely simple but showcase different libraries available to developer to build games such as 2D and 3D rendering capabilities. I still need to spend more time with the Glass SDK (or GDK as they like to refer to it) and start seeing what you have access to. It does make me wonder if there will eventually be a huge demand for Glass developers similar to the huge demand for mobile developers (obviously Glass needs to become more main-stream and more geared towards consumers). But in a year or so, there could be a demand for Glass Apps. I can see obvious retail applications, social/location discovery, passive interactions with other technology just by looking at it. I probably wouldn’t bet my future on the Google Glass being the wearable tech equivalent of the iPhone, but it does have potential and if any company can pull it off (besides Apple) it would be Google.
I will definitely do a write-up of my experience with developing Google Glass apps, but I also want to hack a web version of Samantha from “Her” – so stay tuned…