Glide’s iPhone app hitherto enables voice and video messaging. Following the path of many mobile developers, Glide has introduced a smaller screen version of its app on the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) Apple watch. Both the Watch and the app are early and pioneering products of fully developed future offerings.
Glide’s video messages are practically real time on the iPhone. A user can start watching a video message as the sender is in the middle of recording it. Glide’s Watch app will have this feature too.
The drawback here is since the watch lacks both camera and cellular connect, users do not have the ability to capture and dispatch video Hollywood style. Video messages on the Watch have to come from a phone. However, it could well be a temporary issue. In the future, the Apple Watch is expected to come with its camera.
Technology of the future
Glide CEO Roisman is upbeat about the Apple Watch. Further, he has faith that wrist based live video messaging will quickly emerge as the most convenient method to communicate on the go. Glide’s app more than deserves its place. Users can reply to messages via text or emoji or even by speech-to-text dictated messages.
The app can leverage Apple’s “Handoff” feature by which a user can begin viewing a video on the watch and complete watching it on his phone. Glide’s team of talented engineers connected the firm’s proprietary video streaming technology with a user-friendly interface in its Watch app.
A paradigm shift
Roisman is predicting a seismic shift in the paradigm of computer interaction. Also, humans will be able to communicate with computers in natural language a scenario which previously existed only in the realm of science fiction. What the future holds in terms of wearable technology remains to be seen. What is certain is interesting and exciting times in technology. Glide’s iPhone app is only a precursor.
