Google is pulling the plug on Glass Enterprise, the sensible glasses product it was engaged on for the final ten years. In a brief announcement posted on the corporate web site, Google stated the {hardware} can not be bought, whereas the software program will attain end-of-life in roughly six months’ time.

“Thanks for over a decade of innovation and partnership,” the announcement reads. “As of March 15, 2023, we’ll not promote Glass Enterprise Version. We’ll proceed supporting Glass Enterprise Version till September 15, 2023.”

Glass Enterprise developed from Google Glass, a sensible glasses gadget that supplied customers with a head-worn show with easy and (at the least in idea) helpful data.

Years of evolution

Google Glass was first launched in 2013 to a lot controversy. Tech fans and early adopters might purchase it for $1,500 and it got here with a small digital camera which raised main points with privateness advocates. The venture was supported by Google’s founders, Larry Web page and Sergey Brin, however it might by no means shake off the picture of each stalker’s greatest pal. 

By 2017, Google pulled Google Glass and changed it with Glass Enterprise, a B2B-oriented product whose purpose was to assist handbook laborers and manufacturing facility staff. The latest iteration, launched in 2019, was being bought for $999.

This doesn’t imply it’s sport over for the sensible glasses wearable, although. As per a CNBC report, Google previewed a brand new pair of smartglasses final summer time, one able to translating and transcribing speech in real-time. On the time, the corporate additionally stated it might proceed engaged on AR glasses and testing them in public.

Different corporations are additionally tapping into the AR potential. Fb’s mother or father, Meta, not too long ago launched a sensible model of Ray-Ban glasses, whereas Apple is reportedly engaged on a transparent-lens-kind-of product that may show outdoors movies to a digital actuality headset. 

Lastly, there’s Microsoft with its HoloLens product, though this will have been killed off by the current layoffs on the tech big. 

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