With a notably large number of attendees at Google’s 2013 I/O developers’ conference having been spotted wearing Google Glass, and with sessions like ‘Developing for Glass’ witnessing overwhelming response from the attendees, the I/O event this year was a coming out party for Google’s futuristic Glass wearable-computing device.

The Glass-related proceedings at the 2103 I/O conference included the preview of Glass Developer Kit by Google, with the company also divulging some guidelines for the developers. In addition, Google also announced several new ‘Glassware’ applications from bigwig names like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, CNN, Evernote, and Elle magazine.

About the Glass Developer Kit, software engineering director Charles Mendis said that the impact of Glass in the hands of developers will be quite similar to that of the Android; and added that the Mirror API used in the newly-released third-party apps is the same as that used in all of Google's own apps.

Meanwhile, though Google Glass has been shipped to the first Glass Explorers, comprising the 2,000 people who signed up for the product at last year’s I/O conference, there has been no official disclosure about the expected timeline for the public launch of the device.

Nonetheless, noting that Google is quite hopeful that “Glass can transform how people use technology," product director Steve Lee – talking about the need to familiarize the developers with the device - said: "We need developers to innovate on the platform.”