Google Glass Porn Ban This Morning After 'T-ts & Glass' MiKandi Application Was Launched [Video & Pics]

The Google Glass porn ban will go into effect soon, with the first Google Glass porn app only making an appearance this morning. But Google has already changed its platform developer's policy, so it's possible it might be the only Google Glass porn offering.

This morning MiKandi, a developer of adult content apps, released "T-ts & Glass" an app for the connected glasses that allows you to browse and then, the ubiquitous, up or down vote on racy content.

Because Google Glass allows you to record and view content right above the eye, they're also allowing users to upload their own "racy" content.

MiKandi's CEO and co-founder, Jesse Adams, spoke with ABC News about the application, which is the first adult-oriented app on the Google Glass platform:

"We always try to be up to date on the latest technology. We are a mobile-first company. You are literally recording what you see and sharing it. If someone else can see a little taste of what you saw in front of their eyes, that kind of interaction is really fun.

"It's that live personalized experience that you can then see on your eyes that's really interesting."

Starting this morning, you were able to visit the apps website, view some of the pornographic images included and then install it on your own Google Glass.

Since this morning's offering, over 10,000 people have viewed the app, but only 17 Glass owners actually purchased "T-ts & Glass." Since Google has only just started offering the $1500 Google Glasses to early adopters of it's Explorer program, the low installation numbers aren't surprising.

But Google's response has been swift and obvious: they do not want pornography to infiltrate their Google Glass medium.

Google's platform developer's policy has been updated after MiKandi's launch, and it now reads: "We don't allow Glassware content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts or sexually explicit material."

A Google spokesperson who talked with ABC News, added "Any Glassware that violates this policy will be blocked from appearing on Glass."

But there's a discrepancy between MiKandi and Google. MiKandi says Google updated their developer's policy over the weekend and Google claims they did so last week.

Jennifer McEwen, co-founder of MiKandi, told ABC News:

"When we first picked up our device, we were very careful to comb through all of Google's terms, policies and developers' agreement to make sure we were playing within their rules. That was important to us to play in Google's boundaries.

"Even last week as we were gearing up to make the announcement, we took a look the agreement and there was no mention again of a ban on adult content."

The platform developer's policy states that it was last updated on Jun 1, 2013, which was this past Saturday.

Because there's no Google Glass App Store yet, they haven't been able to ban MiKandi and other possible porn apps entirely, but MiKandi plans to change to adjust to the updated platform developer's policy.

"We are going to have to be really creative. There are tasteful and artful things we can do," Adams said. "We still really want to play around the idea of having Glass users share the content, but we need to figure out ways for users to share photos, whether they are just sexy or clothed."

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