On Monday morning, the first pornography app for Google Glass was released. A few hours later, Google updated its application policy to prohibit sexually explicit material on its newest wearable device.
Seattle-based adult entertainment application developer MiKandi created the app, responsible for a successful app store for Android, which features several adult apps. This one, made specifically for Google Glass, allowed users to look at photos and watch videos that were filmed by other Google Glass users. The company had big plans to break into the first-person point of view adult video opportunities the Glass allowed.
However, only a few hours after MiKandi's launched their app, titled "Tits & Glass" Google updated its policy to restrict pornography from its device.
"We don't allow Glassware content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material," the update said. "Google has a zero-tolerance policy against child pornography. If we become aware of content with child pornography, we will report it to the appropriate authorities and delete the Google Accounts of those involved with the distribution."
This means if MiKandi wants to continue to run an application for Google Glass, they will need to immediately and drastically redesign the way the application works in order to comply with these new policy terms. This change will come after 10,000 people have already visited the site's page and after a dozen Glass users have already downloaded it.
"Although the app is still live and people are using it, at this point we must make changes to the app in order to comply with the new policies. Expect to see changes to the application tomorrow," CEO of MiKandi Jesse Adams wrote in a blog post.
It's unclear at this point if the company will be able to alter the app to comply with the new policy update for Google Glass or whether or not they will be forced to scrap the project entirely. MiKandi has a history of trying to get around such obstacles. CNN reports in 2011 Apple sent the company a cease and desist letter for using the phrase "app store" in a tagline. In addition, has also been rejected by both the iOS and Android app stores before.
