Google Glass will be compatible with both Android and iPhone, developer version to be released soon

With Verge’s Joshua Topolsky visiting Google to get some time with Glass, he confirmed what most people thought were apparent – Glass would be compatible with both Android as well as the Apple iPhone.

That wasn’t news to many but the details weren’t necessarily given about how the company would go about making this happen.

According to experts, one of the most probable ways by which this could happen is by Glass using the phone’s Wi-Fi hotspots to go online. This would also mean that a lot of battery power would be consumed both on your phone and Glass.

Simply put, Glass will use any data connections that exist, similar to Fitbit, or other gadgets that are able to talk to your phone. But that’s not all – it looks likely that Google will offer an iOS app for Glass where one will also find a few of its third-party apps.

It’s estimated that Google Glass will enter the market in late 2013, and will sold at around $1500 a piece but before this takes place, developer versions will be shipped out to lucky contest winners and in particular, to those who had signed up at Google’s I/O conference last year.

However, when these “Explorer versions” will be shipped out is anyone’s guess but with the next I/O conference scheduled for May 15, and Glass getting a lot of attention from the media, the launch might take place in a few weeks from now – meaning to say, the first quarter of 2013.

Google Glass is a part of the Project Glass research and development project, and is a head-mounted display that can interact with the Internet using natural voice commands.