SXSW 2013: Google shows off Glass API along with NYT, Evernote, Gmail apps

At the ongoing South by SouthWest festival in Austin Texas, Google has given a major demo of its prized Google Glass, which could be hitting the stores by 2014. The demonstration showed off apps such as Gmail, Path, EverNote, New York Times to name some. According to Engadget the New York Times app will deliver a headline, a byline, an accompanying image and the number of hours since the article in question was posted. What’s more is that users can tap and have the eyewear read the story’s text aloud. Breaking news notifications will also displayed as they are sent out by the newsroom. As far as Gmail is concerned, the report states that, an email sender’s image and subject line will appear on the device’s screen, and users can reply by dictating their messages.  [caption id=“attachment_657232” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Sergey Brin in this file photo with Google Glass. AP[/caption] According to TechCrunch, Google also showed off the Glass Mirror API, which is the main interface between Google Glass, Google’s servers and the apps that developers will write for them. The report adds that  device essentially talks to Google’s servers and the developers’ applications then get the data from there and also push it to Glass through Google’s APIs. For more read here at TechCrunch. For more details about the event, read Engadget’s Live Blog of the talk here. Watch video of Google Glass