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(CNN) -- On Monday morning, the first porn app for Google Glass was announced. Unfortunately, the app violated the most recent additions to Google's developer policies for the futuristic eyewear, which ban sexually explicit material.
The pornographic app for Glass was released by MiKandi, an adult app store that has a successful Android app store for adult apps. Using the application, Google Glass wearers could look at photos and watch videos filmed using Google Glass. The company wanted to expand from first-person point of view videos to one-on-one interactions between adults who both have Glass.
Now it seems that business plot will need to be altered.
Google added a new section to its developer policies for Google Glass late last week that prohibits apps from delivering sexually explicit content.
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"Our policies make it positive that Glass does not let Glassware content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material. Any Glassware that violates this policy will be blocked from appearing upon Glass," a Google spokesperson said. The similar section promises harsh penalties for any app featuring child pornography. Google also bans gratuitous violence, despise speech and gambling upon Glass.
The connected Glass headset features a little screen above the right eye that can display Internet content. The device is nevertheless in beta mode and is not expected to go upon sale to the general public until late this year or early 2014.
More than 10,000 people have visited the landing page for the porn app, and a dozen Glass owners have signed up with the app, MiKandi CEO Jesse Adams said in a blog post.
He said the company made definite it was following the Google Glass developer terms when it started creating the app two weeks ago, but those rules were changed by Google just before the app's launch. MiKandi will comply with the new rules, and plans upon rolling out a new app that anyhow doesn't include any of the prohibited content.
"Although the app is yet 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 look changes to the application tomorrow," Adams said in a blog post.
This is not the first time the adult company has gone up against Silicon Valley giants.
In 2011, Apple sent the company a stop and desist letter for using the phrase "app store" in its tagline. It has also had apps rejected from the iOS and Android app stores before.
Google Glass is a completely new product, and the public is yet figuring out how and if it will be used. The company is working hard to avoid a sullied reputation for the wearable computer before it it is publicly released.
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