Google Glass killed off for a second time

What simply occurred? Google Glass is useless, once more. The AR glasses that failed as a shopper product earlier than transitioning into a device for enterprise use stopped being bought by Google on March 15. The firm says it’ll finish assist on September 15.

The unique Google Glass’ $1,500 price ticket and considerations over privateness implications meant it by no means caught on with prospects after first arriving in 2013. But Google gave it a new lease of life as an enterprise product by 2017, releasing a second-generation mannequin named Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 a couple of years later.

The $999 glasses are powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR1 platform and have a 1.7GHz clock velocity, 4 cores, and an eight-hour battery life. They additionally include a greater show than the predecessor and are extra snug to put on, making them preferrred for companies that wish to use augmented actuality, particularly as they will face up to the trials of labor environments, in accordance with the corporate. Google pushed the glasses for medical, agricultural, and manufacturing facility settings.

But the Google Glass Enterprise headsets are not any extra. 9to5Google noticed a put up on the official Glass web site that thanks prospects for “over a decade of innovation and partnership.” It confirms that gross sales ended on March 15, and assist will solely proceed up till September 15, 2023. While no software program updates are deliberate, “support” on this occasion refers to prospects receiving alternative units underneath the present applications.

The headsets will proceed to work after September 15 and builders will nonetheless be capable to make apps for the system. Google does word, nonetheless, that the pre-installed ‘Meet on Glass’ videoconferencing app that launched lower than a yr in the past might cease working after September 15.

Google instructed The Verge that the corporate remains to be deeply dedicated to AR and that it is “been building AR into many Google products and we’ll continue to look at ways to bring new, innovative AR experiences across our product portfolio.” So one other headset, probably the next-gen glasses that Google confirmed off throughout its I/O developer convention, may nonetheless arrive.

Augmented actuality has but to turn into the revolution we have been as soon as promised – a lot of the current studies on this subject are in regards to the Army’s issues with its Microsoft Hololens-based headsets. Even Meta, the one-time champion of all issues VR and AR, is not speaking in regards to the Metaverse as a lot because it as soon as did, focusing as an alternative on the brand new tech development of including generative AI to every part. CEO Mark Zuckerberg did, nonetheless, lately speak in regards to the blended actuality talents of the Meta Quest 3, which is predicted to launch in late 2023 for a value between $300 and $500.