Google Glass Communicating with iOS over Bluetooth Data (Wearables DevCon Glass Meetup 2014)

Quick overview of how REFLX Labs got Google Glass talking to our Bluetooth LE Boogio boards by way of iOS over Bluetooth Data.

http://reflxlabsinc.com
http://boogio.com

Additional notes and other metadata may be found here:

http://ddd.io/weardevcon14-glass-ios-bluetooth-data

Transcript

1. Communicating with iOS over Bluetooth Data Wearables DevCon March 6th, 2014 Glass Meetup at Wearables DevCon
2. Beau Simensen @beausimensen beau.io
3. boogio.com @wearboogio reflxlabsinc.com @reflxlabs
4. Our devices are Bluetooth LE
5. We currently have several iOS demo apps
6. But we wanted to experiment with using Glass as a display
7. Android supports Bluetooth LE! Hurray!
8. ... but Android Studio seemed to think the classes didn't exists?!
9. Oh.
10. 15 < 18
11. :(
12. OK, then. Regular Bluetooth?
13. Oh, right. Our devices are Bluetooth LE.
14. :(
15. Proof of concept over Wi-Fi?
16. OK!
17. How to connect? (UX is hard)
18. MDNS!
19. Oh, right.
20. 15 < 16
21. :(
22. javax.jmdns 3.4.2-SNAPSHOT
23. OK!
24. WORKS!
25. device -> ios <-> glass network wifi
26. How to demo in isolation? How about Wi-Fi hotspot?
27. WORKS!
28. What about... Bluetooth hotspot?
29. WORKS!
30. device -> ios <-> glass network wifi
31. device -> ios <-> glass network bluetooth
32. "Hotspot blue strip"
33. But it works for demos. :)
34. :)
35. Speaking of which, see our demo!
36. Questions? @beausimensen boogio.com