Google Glass Song Lyrics App Under Development By MusiXmatch
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm.
Recently, I conducted an interview via someone else’s Google Glass.
For crying out loud.
In this live, international interview (which you can see below albeit without audio, because I didn’t manage to capture it — again, my first Google Glass interview) Massimo Ciociola, founder and CEO of the popular lyrics service MusiXmatch told me about the company’s plans to introduce a Google Glass app that will display song lyrics on Google’s heads-up display, which is still only available to a couple thousand people in the world.
In fact, MusiXmatch is already working on this app, or “Glassware” in the Google parlance, which will do at least two things for tho
se wearing the device:
- It will use Gracenote or possibly another acoustic music recognition platform to figure out what music is playing around you, and then scroll the lyrics in real time, right in front of you
r face. MusiXmatch already scrolls lyrics in real time within Spotify, so it already has the ability to do this — all it has to add are the audio recognition and the Google Glass interface, and this will be ready. - If you’re listening to music on your Android via headphones, MusiXmatch for Google Glass will display lyrics in the heads-up display, so you can see them floating by as you walk around, or into things.
Ciociola said the idea occurred to him at the Google I/O conference last week, and that Google furnished him with Google Glass in order to make the app. Interestingly, he said app developers are barred from including advertising of any kind in their own apps, and there doesn’t seem to be a mechanism for charging for them yet. So for now, Glassware has no commercial viability for third-party developers, although that will almost certainly change soon when Google launches its upcoming Glassware store.
So, will people really use Google Glass, for lyrics or anything else?
After spending some time with one of the 2,000 Google Glass units thought to be in circulation so far, Ciociola said he’s firmly in the camp that believes the average person will in fact use Google Glass, or something like it — once the price comes down.
Here’s our silent interview via Google Glass and Google Hangouts, with music by my brother’s band, Javelin (the songs are “Airfield” and “Friending”):
Wonderful app idea – I think the development will be interesting as well as the result – now e should only wait till Google glasses get more widely used – and a number of apps will float the market. But if you want to be the first – you should start developing your Google glass app now!
Hey how can I get that google glass here in Nepal.
I would love the functionality of these revelator glasses as a lyric assistant.
As an old guy trying to get the lead out and learn guitar, struggling at 61, fractured lyrics hitting dead gray matter in memory is a real buzz kill.