Newest Google Glass Update has a Secret Characteristic: It Can Play Tune

Newest Glass update was intended exclusively to help with your agenda and commute, you’d be incorrect. The devious devs in Mountain View silently added support for Google Play Music in the XE11 upgrade laid the groundwork for a future feature statement. After side loading the app onto Glass, a fresh “listen to” voice command appear on the hardware’s home screen, a feature that Glass head of Marketing Ed Sanders tells USA Today it is “significant to have” for the headset.

Right on time, the Glass team has posted a fresh Explorer Story video featuring music producer Young Guru explanation how Glass can assist him learn new sounds to sample, showing off playback and the obtainable Android Sound hunt feature.

By uttering the innovative phrase and talking the name of an album, artist, playlist or song, the company’s guinea pigs can snoop to tunes they’ve uploaded to Google Play Music or those obtainable through all contact provide they have a subscription.

Once a user confirm their choice and the music starts, a card with album art and playback controls (Pause, Play, Previous, Next, Stop, Radio and Volume) is pinned to the wearable’s timeline. As you might imagine, the audio excellence through the bone conduction speaker isn’t spectacular, and whereas the device’s forthcoming ear bud may offer some development, the foreseeable musical future of Glass Explorers is in mono.