Google has launched a few games that are exclusively built for Google Glass.
Google Glass users have been treated with a new form of entertainment by the maker of these tiny projection screens that take inputs from an Android based smartphone and display the same on a tiny screen placed in front of the eye. So far Google Glass Developers have released 5 Mini–Games (not yet available on the tweaked Play Store) namely; Balance, Clay Shooter, Tennis, Fruit Ninja clone and Matcher.
How to play games on Google Glass? Though strictly speaking, Google Glass is essentially a tiny display mounted in front of a single eye, it is certainly a futuristic piece of sophisticated and miniaturized hardware. Despite being almost inconspicuous, Google Glass features accelerometer, gyroscope and voice activation features. Hence these games have been developed to make optimum use of these specifications and are simple, but more importantly they enhance the appeal of the device, while still ensuring a firm grasp on the real world, explained a Google’s spokesperson,
“Each game is visually simple and straightforward to play. We intentionally wanted games that are quick to get into when you have a few, free minutes and just as easy to get out of when you want to turn your attention back to reality.”
The games appear to be very simple indeed. For example, ‘Tennis’ involves focusing the cross–hairs (using eye–movement) to hit the ball, while Balance utilizes the inbuilt gyroscope to maintain a few blocks atop a virtual head. The Clay Shooter relies on vocal inputs from the user to shoot a virtual clay target and when in the midst of the cross–hairs, the player has to say ‘Bang’! Similarly, Fruit Ninja Clone uses the inbuilt camera to sense the hand–movements and in Matcher, the eyes have to move to match the blocks.