First up is Developing for Glass with Timothy Jordan. He announced the Glass Developer Kit during this session, but there’s more than that:

By bringing technology closer, we can get it out of the way. This and other core concepts, design guidelines, UX paradigms, and APIs will be introduced as a baseline for Glass Development. Excellent examples will be shown and used to codify everything into a set of best practices. If you want to develop for Glass, this is where you start!

The other session is Voiding Your Warranty: Hacking Your Glass with Hyunyoung Sung and P.Y. Laligand:

Glass is ready for hacking! See what is possible with the hardware platform and how you can gain root access. Learn how to run your own experimental applications. Disclaimer: you’ll be stepping into uncharted and unsupported territory!

As expected, the results are adorable.

[h/t: Reddit]

Google Glass Explorer Joseph Lallouz might have answered that very question this week when he wore Glass to his hockey game. What follows is six minutes of first-person hockey that feels all too real and incredibly immersive.

Now, Glass has no chance of replacing traditional sports broadcasting, but it would be an incredible compliment. Just imagine a broadcast of a football game switching to a live feed from the players as the game starts. Even better, people watching the game could switch between players to get whatever view they desire.

Google Glass has a lot of potential, but the controlled demos from Google haven’t really sold me on Glass entirely. Watching a hockey game from the perspective of a player has.

[h/t: Reddit]

Chris DiBona, Director of Open Source at Google, is interviewed by Don Dodge about how your startup should use open source software. It’s a given that you should use open source and perhaps contribute as well, but there are tricks to doing it correctly, so that you can scale, so you don’t run into legal trouble and so that you can be acquired.

Google shares the videos in a blog post, explaining:

The Life at Google team produced a video series called Do Cool Things That Matter. This series includes a video from an SET and TE on the Maps team (Sean Jordan and Yvette Nameth) discussing their work on the Google Maps team.

The Google Students team hosted a Hangouts On Air event with several Google SETs (Diego Salas, Karin Lundberg, Jonathan Velasquez, Chaitali Narla, and Dave Chen) discussing the SET role.

Here are both:

Google’s latest Drive SDK video will show developers how to use the Application Data folder:

During this session we’ll build up on the Android quickstart application and show how to create configuration files in the cloud that can be seamlessly synced across devices using the Application Data folder and custom file properties.

In a new video simply titled, “How It Feels [through Glass],” Google shares a point of view walkthrough of how Glass will work in everyday scenarios. Check it out:

Now, I don’t think all of us will be doing anything quite as extreme as skydiving or performing barrel rolls in an air plane. What it illustrates, however, is how Glass will greatly impact sharing of information from one person to the next. A pilot can wear Glass, take off in a plane, and then have students watching a live feed from Glass on the ground. They get first hand experience in piloting a plane without having to be on board the vehicle.

Of course, Google’s views on how people will use Glass are a bit optimistic. We all know that the majority of Glass users will be using the technology to share inane statuses and irreverent jokes.

Unfortunately, the rest of us will have to wait until Google can get Glass out on the mass market. According to Google’s own Sergey Brin, that might be later this year.

While we wait, check out E.B. Studios‘ latest investigative piece into Glass and the people behind the project. The report also features a Glass mockup created on a 3D printer to better illustrate how one wears the hardware. Check it out:

To learn more about Glass from Google itself, check out this recent TED talk where Google’s Tom Chi spoke on how the company used rapid prototyping to make variations on the hardware.

Android Authority nabbed a fascinating teaser video that references a new Google project called the Chromebook Pixel. It features a 2560×1700 display. The only thing better would be the 15-inch MacBook Pro which sports a 2880×1800 retina display. Check out the leaked teaser video below:

The leaked video doesn’t tell us much about the Chromebook Pixel’s hardware, but we do know that it will sport a touchscreen. Adding to the legitimacy of the leak is that it originally came from François Beaufort, a developer who has leaked previous Google products on Google+.

Google hasn’t made any formal announcement in regards to the Chromebook Pixel yet, or even hinted that such a thing exists. The company only just recently partnered with HP for the Pavilion 14 Chromebook.

Still, the idea of a high-end Chromebook is exciting. The only thing holding the Chromebook back with power users, besides Chrome OS’s incompatibility with traditional applications, is that they’re usually underpowered devices. The Chromebook Pixel could go a long way in increasing adoption among power users, especially with that glorious screen.

This video shows how translating words from language to language can be a huge undertaking, as there are words in various cultures which simply don’t translate to others. Below you will see words from Mandarin, Hindi, and Greek.

This app will certainly be a boon to those who have a business or career that deals with a lot of various international clients and partners. Do you see yourself utilizing Google Input on a frequent basis?