Entertainment apps could be secret to meaking Google’s wearable Glass device socially acceptable.

Google Glass faces an issue: Too most people will still see it as a threat. Despite Google’s ongoing efforts to advertise Glass as a trendy tool with practical uses, Glass recently made headlines as a suspected piracy tool: a guy wearing Glass in a film theater in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday was questioned by Homeland Security agents as a result of misplaced suspicion that he could have been recording the movie.

Such incidents could be expected to become less frequent as Glass becomes more commonplace and other people remember that the device isn’t necessarily recording regularly. But before it achieves ubiquity, Glass would require a killer app or two, something that makes it compelling in preference to merely intriguing.

Glass might find its killer app in games. Interest in computer games played a tremendous role within the development of private computers — the need to play computationally intense games figured into consumers’ willingness to buy new, more powerful PCs — and it would well become a driver within the popularization of wearable devices.

To help that happen, Google on Friday published five Glassware mini-games to illustrate how Glass can be utilized as an entertainment device.

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Tennis, as its name suggests, offers an effortless tennis simulation. It depends on the Glass accelerometer and gyroscope to trace the player’s head position for assessing side-to-side movement. The Balance game displays virtual blocks to be balanced atop what seems like the Android logo’s head. Clay Shooter is a basic skeet-shooting simulation, built with accelerometer data and simulated physics. Matcher is a shape-matching game that’s associated with the player’s head movements. And Shape Splitter borrows the interactive dynamic of Fruit Ninja, presenting moving shapes that the player can slash with a hand gesture.

If Google is eager about gaming, however, it may possibly desire to consider a way to expand the Glass display area to more fully cover the wearer’s field of view, along the lines of the Oculus Rift headset. Having game play confined to a small part of what’s visible could limit player enthusiasm, however it’d be appropriate for some situations and casual games.

Noble Ackerson, founding father of Byte an Atom Research, a software development company eager about Glass, said in an email that tumbler presents a promising gaming platform since it offers developers new how to create interactive experiences through voice, motion tracking, winking, and touch gestures.

His company’s Glassware app, LynxFit, and the recently introduced LynxCast, which links LynxFit on Glass to a Chromecast-connected TV, attempts to mix gaming with fitness.

“So now, armed with the sensors on your Google Glass device, we deliver interactive gamified fitness content at the big screen TV so that you can enjoy on your own or to challenge your pals,” said Ackerson. “Imagine playing Super Mario Brothers from Mario’s perspective, as a result of the motion tracking functionality in Glass. We wish to deliver an experience where you move through a 30-day fitness program, when you jump, dodge, duck, and high-knee run in place for your lounge, out within the park, or during your work break to your hotel room.”

Google just shipped updated Glass headsets to members of its developer-oriented Glass Explorer program. The corporate is anticipated to launch a mass-market version of Glass later this year.

Thomas Claburn is editor-at-large for InformationWeek. He was writing about business and technology since 1996, for publications comparable to New Architect, PC Computing, InformationWeek, Salon, Wired, and Ziff Davis Smart Business. Before that, he worked in film and tv. He’s the writer of a science fiction novel, Reflecting Fires, and his mobile game Blocfall Free is accessible for iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire.

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