The pornographic app for Glass was released by MiKandi, an adult app store that has a successful Android app store for adult apps. Using the application, Google Glass wearers could look at photos and watch videos filmed using Google Glass. The company wanted to expand from first-person point of view videos to one-on-one interactions between adults who both have Glass.
Now it seems that business plan will need to be altered.
Google added a new section to its developer policies for Google Glass late last week that prohibits apps from delivering sexually explicit content.
"Our policies make it clear that Glass does not allow Glassware content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material. Any Glassware that violates this policy will be blocked from appearing on Glass," a Google spokesperson said. The same section promises harsh penalties for any app featuring child pornography. Google also bans gratuitous violence, hate speech and gambling on Glass.
The connected Glass headset features a tiny screen above the right eye that can display Internet content. The device is still in beta mode and is not expected to go on sale to the general public until late this year or early 2014.
More than 10,000 people have visited the landing page for the porn app, and a dozen Glass owners have signed up with the app, MiKandi CEO Jesse Adams said in a blog post.
He said the company made sure it was following the Google Glass developer terms when it started creating the app two weeks ago, but those rules were changed by Google just before the app's launch. MiKandi will comply with the new rules, and plans on rolling out a new app that somehow doesn't include any of the forbidden content.
"Although the app is still live and people are using it, at this point we must make changes to the app in order to comply with the new policies. Expect to see changes to the application tomorrow," Adams said in a blog post.
This is not the first time the adult company has gone up against Silicon Valley giants.
In 2011, Apple sent the company a cease and desist letter for using the phrase "app store" in its tagline. It has also had apps rejected from the iOS and Android app stores before.
MadMedico posted:Google added a new section to its developer policies for Google Glass late last week that prohibits apps from delivering sexually explicit content.
"Our policies make it clear that Glass does not allow Glassware content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material. Any Glassware that violates this policy will be blocked from appearing on Glass," a Google spokesperson said. The same section promises harsh penalties for any app featuring child pornography. Google also bans gratuitous violence, hate speech and gambling on Glass.
swirlsofhistory posted:Yeah great google, but why not block pornographic searches on your search engine right now? Maybe because it would kill your revenue, just like this decision will kill your revenue once a competitor comes along with their own brand of porn-friendly glasses.
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ChairmanMao posted:dammit i was gonna make a put em on the glass joke, i guess i have to downvote you post bro sorry
lifes hard sometimes
swirlsofhistory posted:Yeah great google, but why not block pornographic searches on your search engine right now? Maybe because it would kill your revenue, just like this decision will kill your revenue once a competitor comes along with their own brand of porn-friendly glasses.
And make them water proof too so people can use them in the shower.
god, who hasn't been there
ChairmanMao posted:ugh nothing worse than when your expensive consumer electronics touch a butt and break
god, who hasn't been there
why would anyone buy something that wont go up their butt in this day and age
This sounds nightmarish rofl
Riding on her blue Raleigh hybrid bike, Rowder pulled up Wednesday afternoon to Google's offices in Venice, located inside the Binoculars Building designed in the 1980s by famed architect Frank Gehry. Inside we were greeted by half a dozen Google employees, all wearing the glasses.
getfiscal posted:strange days squid becomes closer to reality
America, as directed by Kathryn Bigelow
- strange days
- american psycho
wasted posted:America could not kill off Reagan's legacy
bigelow started making movies in 1982 and this describes every movie she has ever made
Skylark posted:Roseweird if you keep downvoting my posts im going to get an app for my Googles that gives me the laser eye powers of Cyclops the Xman and blast you to hell.
roseweird downvotes are a sign youre doing it right. hoo rah.
Ironicwarcriminal posted:on a more serious note who the fuck still gets excited by consumer electronics developments. All this shit is just coasting off the cell phone and the internet, i can't think of anything truly groundbreaking in the past ten years.
your mom does, when its from adameve.com
Ironicwarcriminal posted:on a more serious note who the fuck still gets excited by consumer electronics developments. All this shit is just coasting off the cell phone and the internet, i can't think of anything truly groundbreaking in the past ten years.
Excuse me Ser, but do you have a moment to talk about 3D Printing?
Skylark posted:http://phys.org/news/2013-06-google-glass-eye-opening.htmlThis sounds nightmarish rofl
Riding on her blue Raleigh hybrid bike, Rowder pulled up Wednesday afternoon to Google's offices in Venice, located inside the Binoculars Building designed in the 1980s by famed architect Frank Gehry. Inside we were greeted by half a dozen Google employees, all wearing the glasses.
yeah hybrids are horrific
