The Google glass project is advancing today as the company is moving it out of Google X and turning it into a standalone project within the company,
Henceforth, Glass will now be overseen by former Apple executive and Nest founder Tony Fadell. But Glass will not become part of Nest.
Google’s current version of Glass is still available for $1,500 for now until Google puts a halt to its Explorer program next Monday. Current Glass owners will still be able to use Glass as before, but they won’t receive any new software updates.
A new version of Glass will likely be released later this year, most likely around Google’s annual I/O developer conference. The whole idea behind the Explorer program was to see how people would use the technology. Now that Google has received quite a bit of feedback — both good and bad — it has decided to close the program in order to focus on future versions of Glass.
Henceforth, Glass will now be overseen by former Apple executive and Nest founder Tony Fadell. But Glass will not become part of Nest.
Google’s current version of Glass is still available for $1,500 for now until Google puts a halt to its Explorer program next Monday. Current Glass owners will still be able to use Glass as before, but they won’t receive any new software updates.
A new version of Glass will likely be released later this year, most likely around Google’s annual I/O developer conference. The whole idea behind the Explorer program was to see how people would use the technology. Now that Google has received quite a bit of feedback — both good and bad — it has decided to close the program in order to focus on future versions of Glass.
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