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December 18, 2013 10:55 pm GMT

Google Glass Getting A Face Recognition App This Month, But It Wont Get Googles Blessing

Screen Shot 2013-12-18 at 10.55.44 AMGoogle Glass use cases are many, but one that inevitably comes to mind is facial recognition. Google already does a lot with reverse image searching and identifying faces in photos, so it would not be such a leap to imagine it doing something like comparing the faces of those you meet at networking events to publicly available photos from Google+ and other sources to make sure you never again forget a name. But Google has forbidden that kind of software in the official Glassware app store. Still, startup Lambda Labs and its founder Stephen Balaban are building that software anyway, for installation via sideloading.

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