Google, a company that spends billions of dollars on research and development, still hasnât found a good reason for everyone to own a pair of smart glasses. But an international team of researchers is rethinking how upgraded glasses could be usefulâby turning the wearerâs nose into a remote control for other devices.
Google has officially announced what weâve known for two and a half yearsâGoogle Glass isnât dead, the company has just been redeveloping the technology for the enterprise sector and, specifically, blue-collar manufacturing workers.
Google needs to be in the hardware business. Itâs infiltrated nearly all aspects of our lives to an alarming degree. It controls our emails through Gmail, knows where we go through Maps, has a list of every person we communicate with via Android, and understands our every interest thanks to its search engine andâŚ
For better or for worse, Silicon Valley is always on the hunt for The Next Big Thing. But while tech giants like Apple and Google have bet big on developing the latest wearable technology, the real future of smart devices may have been sitting right under our noses (or is it on top our heads???) all along.
According to a new Bloomberg report, Apple is exploring making digital glasses:
It seems like it was ages ago that Google Glass was the future that nobody wanted. The wearable tech had at least one bad design flawâit seemed to get its early adopters punched in the face because people didnât like the camera being pointed at them. Now, Snapchat thinks people are finally ready for glasses-mountedâŚ
Itâs fun for the occasional tech demo, but now we know the real reason that Google Glass, and other augmented reality solutions, have failed to catch on. The future theyâve promised us will eventually turn into the same nightmare that surfing the web has becomeâa sea of intrusive ads and countless another annoyancesâŚ
Lacking a decent keyboard for password entry, itâs tricky to secure a wearable computer so that someone else canât just put it on and access your private files. But researchers have come up with a better alternative, by listening to the unique sound of the wearerâs skull.
Google Glass has thus far been a flop for regular people doing normal things. But for more boring tasks enhancing productivity and increasing profit, thereâs still promise. A report from Electrek claims that Tesla is using the new Enterprise Edition headsets at its Fremont factory.
Google Glass is dead, and the company is doing everything it can to make the world forget it ever sold the wearable experiment. It wasnât a complete disaster, though. The product had occasional moments of brilliance, like this Lego Assistant app that walks users through building a complex model, without the need for aâŚ
After many months of silence, Googleâs finally scrubbed the internet clean of its weird wearable consumer experiment known as Google Glass. Spotted by 9to5Google, Glass-related accounts on Google+, Twitter, and Instagram have been shutdown with only Google+ giving any kind of parting farewell:
Google ended its Glass Explorer program a year ago, bringing a welcome end to the experiment. But Google Glass is not dead. Instead, the device is being resurrected as a tool for workplaces, and government regulators just released images of a prototype.
Google Glass, the companyâs head-mounted wearable device could make a return as the company has put together a new group, dubbed âProject Auraâ to oversee the device and other wearable technologies.
Remember how useless Google Glass seemed when the search giant launched the geeky and invasive product? Turns out, some workplaces actually think theyâre useful. And now, Google is now distributing a new version of Glass to select businesses.
The first Google Glass mightâve died an ignominious death, but donât give up on face computers just yet. Google will most likely launch some kind of updated Glass in the future, and when it does, features like framing up pictures with your fingers could make it a whole lot better than version 1.0.
In tech journalism, rumors are like editorial gambits. Some seem like a sure thing, some just smoke and mirrors, while others still are very real but very far off. Earlier this week, I took a good guess at what I thought might pop up at Google I/O 2015. But there were a few things that were curiously missing.
Youâve probably been engulfed in the Apple Watch media maelstrom. Wondering what else happened in tech this weekend? Like how the new Google Glass will be made by a fancy Italian eyewear brand? Weâve got you covered with BitStream, our cheat sheet for tech news and rumors that mightâve slipped past your radar.
It seems that Google Glass is down, but not out: Italian eyewear maker Luxottica â better known as the company behind Oakley and Ray-Ban â has confirmed that itâs working with Google to make version 2.0 of the companyâs faceputer.
The first time around, Google Glass wasnât exactly a runaway hit. But the technology behind it will certainly be improved to the point where it can eventually be integrated into a regular pair of glasses. And for when that day gets here, thereâs now a novel and subtle way to navigate your wearable display using theâŚ
So long, Google Glass. Or at least as we know it.
