Details of Google Glass's first shooting game revealed

Although Google ultimately chose the relatively ordinary voice command "Ok, Glass" to activate Google Glass, instead of a gun-like shooting sound effect such as "Pew Pew Pew," early developers of the device have indeed been working on a shooting game for Google Glass. Recently, the UK's well-known media outlet, The Guardian, learned more details about this game.

An early Google Glass developer named Sean McCracken revealed some details about the first shooting game for this device on his Google+ page. It is reported that this shooting game is called "Psyclops." The game combines design elements from the 3D version of "Space Invaders" and "Missile Command," and its development has reached the final stage.

It should be noted that McCracken was actually one of the participants in the earlier #ifihadglass campaign (where applicants had to write a short paragraph on Twitter or Google+ about what they would do with Google Glass if they had it, and tag it with #ifihadglass to have a chance to win a free trial of the Explorer edition of Google Glass). He eventually became one of the winners. Therefore, since receiving his Google Glass at the end of July, he has been developing this game.

Last week, McCracken published a demo video of the game on the popular photo-sharing platform Instagram, and this week, he released a video of Psyclops running on the Kindle Fire tablet on YouTube. From the leaked screenshots, we can see that Psyclops uses a heads-up display system similar to those found in high-end cars. Users only need to use the Google Glass screen as a sight, and once aligned with the invading UFOs, it will fire to attack.

In fact, Google has been encouraging developers to use existing Android tools rather than wait for the official "Google Glass Development Kit" (Glass Development Kit, GDK) to develop applications. On the other hand, Google officially stated in June: "We are still heavily developing the GDK. In the meantime, developers can bring their creative ideas to life using the existing Android SDK. Although you may not be able to create a perfect Google Glass experience using Android tools alone, it will at least allow you to test your ideas while waiting for the GDK to be released."

It is reported that McCracken is also one of the developers behind the location-based strategy game "Swarm!" and the Star Wars-themed game "GlassBattle."