Blue, A Baseball App, Will Help Glass Reach The Mainstream

Glass has a long way to go before it captures mainstream interest.

Blue is the kind of app that seems almost certain to help Glass’ general appeal. It’s an app that pushes live data to Glass as you’re sitting at a major league baseball stadium watching your favorite team (hopefully as they’re beating the Yankees).

Here’s how developer Aaron Draczynski describes Blue:

Blue uses geolocation to figure out which ballpark you’re sitting in. It knows who’s playing and automatically starts presenting data to you as the game unfolds — stats for every player and pitch, even play-by-play descriptions. Watch a pitch fly by, then Blue will tell you its speed and type. Wondering what call the umpire just made or why that runner got sent back to first base? Blue will let you know.

If you’re a baseball fan, that sounds really, really cool. But you’ll totally geek out over the demo video:

Fantastic, right?

With the way sports is moving toward the heavy use of data and statistics — especially major league baseball — I’m betting this app will be extremely popular. And, if Glass is priced right, I think it’s the kind of app that will convince a good amount of baseball fans that they need to buy Glass and wear it to the ballpark.

The developer says he already has a backlog of interested Explorers wanting to test Blue; I’d love to be in the group, but I’m 200+ miles away from Safeco Field and don’t have plans to go to another Mariners game this season. So I’ll watch its progress for now, and enjoy Blue next season, hopefully.

And you know what would be awesome? (hint, hint, Aaron D.) A version of Blue for NFL football games. ZOMG.