TMG builds wearable payments app for Google Glass

by TMG

by. Ryan Anderson

The audience at yesterday’s 2014 TMG Executive Summit in Lake Tahoe, Calif., was intrigued by one of the latest projects to emerge from the TMG Innovation Lab – a payments app for Google Glass we’re calling See2Pay.

TMG Senior Product Manager Brian Day, in a presentation aptly named “The Future of Payments,” gave a demonstration of how this custom-built wearable payments app works.

Built by our teams for use with Google’s smart eyewear Google Glass, See2Pay lets consumers make small-dollar purchases at the point-of-sale with a swipe of the touch pad on the eyewear frames.

The app is a product of the TMG Innovation Lab, a 12-month-old project devoted to building and testing consumer-centric digital payment solutions. The developer team leveraged an established person-to-person (P2P) network to build out the processing system behind the app. Transactions performed through See2Pay are routed through the Dwolla payments platform.

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