What just happened? Google Glass is dead again. Google stopped selling augmented reality glasses that failed as a consumer product before transitioning to a tool for enterprise use on March 15. The company says it will end support on September 15th.
The original Google Glass’ $1,500 price tag and concerns about the privacy implications meant it never really caught on with customers after it first arrived in 2013. But Google gave it a new lease on life as an enterprise product by 2017, releasing The second generation model Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 was named after two years.
The $999 glasses are powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR1 platform and feature a clock speed of 1.7GHz, four cores, and up to eight hours of battery life. It also comes with a larger screen than its predecessor and is more comfortable to wear, making it ideal for companies that want to use augmented reality, especially since it can withstand the rigors of work environments, according to the company. Google pushed the glasses for medical, agricultural, and factory settings.
But the Google Glass Enterprise headset is no longer there. 9to5Google observer a mail On the official Glass website thanking customers for “more than a decade of innovation and partnership.” It asserts that sales ended March 15, and that support will continue through September 15, 2023. While no software updates are planned, “support” in this case refers to customers receiving replacement hardware under existing software.
The headset will continue to work after September 15th and developers will still be able to create apps for the device. However, Google notes that the pre-installed “Meet on Glass” video conferencing app that launched less than a year ago may stop working after September 15th.
Google said the edge The company remains deeply committed to augmented reality and is “building AR into many Google products and we’ll continue to look for ways to deliver innovative new AR experiences across our suite of products.” So there might still be another headset out there, possibly the next-gen glasses that Google showed off during its I/O developer conference.
Augmented reality has not yet become the revolution it once promised – most of the latest reports in this field are about Army problems With its Microsoft Hololens-based headphones. Even Meta, the one-time champion of all things virtual and augmented reality, doesn’t talk about the Metaverse as much as before, focusing instead on the new technology trend of add-on Generative artificial intelligence for everything. However, CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently talked about the mixed reality capabilities of Meta Quest 3Which is expected to be launched in late 2023 at a price ranging between $300 and $500.
