Spanish developer itglass wins first prize for Google Glass in Europe

As the only Spanish company invited to the London Google Glass Design Sprint & Workshop, first event specialized in this smart device that was held in London on the occasion of its launch in the United Kingdom, The Spanish start-up has won first prize with its London tourist app.

Itglass, start-up specialized in the development of specific apps for Google Glass in all types of business sectors, It has been the only Spanish company that has participated in the Google Glass Design Sprint and Workshop, the first event dedicated to these smart glasses organized by Google outside the United States, specifically at the Google Campus in London, for marketing in the United Kingdom.

This event has had the assistance of the top managers of Google in the project of this smart device, as Timothy Jordan, Hoi Lam y Aristidis Papaioannou, inter alia. During the same, itglass has shown its strategic vision for wearable technologies and its business model, which combines the development of turnkey solutions for clients (They have already delivered apps to national and international companies from various business sectors,) with the creation of your own products or apps.

On this occasion, The event focused on delving into the principles of glassware development and programming (apps para Google Glass), last happy’s del GDK, as well as promoting the exchange of experiences between the main Google Glass developers.. The event included an application development contest (apps) para Google Glass, also called hackathon, where the participating companies have presented their projects and in which itglass has been the winner.

In this sense, the company has developed especially for this event the first London tourist guide for Google Glass, including numerous functionalities such as navigation through voice recognition, augmented reality and geolocation with GPS.

Jordi Boza, CEO of itglas, has highlighted “the importance of this award, As it is the first event organized by Google outside of the United States, it consolidates our company's leadership position in the new market of companies specialized in Google Glass., especially valuing the work of Antonio García, CTO of itglas”.

The event, dedicated to disseminating the principles of glassware development and programming, last API’s del GDK, It also allows the exchange of experiences with the main Google Glass companies and explorers., in which itglas contributes its experience as Glass Explorer and Glass Developer since its foundation, as well as its vision as a company specialized in the development of solutions for large companies..