New Apps for Google Glass

This week, Google announced that it is launching 11 more official apps for Google Glass, and updating a few more. In May, Google announced the addition of a suite of travel apps and in the past six months, Google said that Glassware apps have increased by 80 percent. Here are just a few of the new music, fitness and sport apps for Google Glass wearers to check out.

Music
Shazam is bringing its well-known music recognition software to Glass. While wearing Glass, say “Ok, Glass, recognize this song” and Shazam will tell you the song and the artist. Another great app for music (or karaoke) lovers is MusicXmatch. For those people who can never remember words to songs, MusicXmatch displays on-screen lyrics to millions of songs in dozens of languages.

Fitness
Runtastic is an app that guides users through workouts and tracks progress, such as distance run or the number of push-ups completed. For those that need a little more push in their workouts, there’s Zombies, Run!, an app that gamifies running by making the user run from zombies.

Sports
The 94Fifty Basketball app works with the company’s Smart Sensor ball. It gives feedback to a player’s game about their speed and shot, including arc and backspin of each individual shot. And for the fans, there’s the Goal.com app, just in time for the World Cup. Goal.com displays alerts on the Glass headset about games and goals, as well as articles.

Other new apps to Google Glass include Livestream, GuidiGO, Star Chart, The Guardian and Duolingo. More apps are sure to be coming to Google Glass, so current Explorers have a lot to look forward to. But will it be enough to convince the rest of the population to jump on the Glass bandwagon?

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