{"id":158726,"date":"2023-03-16T18:41:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T18:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=158726"},"modified":"2023-10-18T06:08:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T05:08:43","slug":"google-has-completely-shut-down-google-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/google-has-completely-shut-down-google-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Google has completely shut down Google Glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten years ago, Google began one of its first large-scale experiments with augmented reality.\u00a0The project was called Google Glass – a device with a projection display that is mounted on the head, and controlled using voice commands.\u00a0Simply put, Google Glass is smart glasses.\u00a0The idea aroused great interest among technical enthusiasts, while the device was initially inaccessible to a wide audience.\u00a0Ultimately, Google was forced to abandon its plans, and the product was left for corporate use only.\u00a0In 2019, the search giant introduced the second generation of Google Glass Enterprise Edition, but this version did not last long.\u00a0The company has now completely discontinued the production of these glasses.<\/p>\n

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Recently, Google has been developing a corporate version of its glasses, but it did not last long.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On March 15, the Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 augmented reality headset is no longer available for sale.\u00a0Google also does not plan to release any updates for the device, but will continue to support its product until September 15 this year.\u00a0After that, Google Glass smart glasses will finally become a thing of the past, and the project itself will be closed.\u00a0The only thing left is the existing software images, the company promises to keep the links until at least April 1, 2024.<\/p>\n

It’s a sad end for a seemingly promising device that once caused so much buzz.\u00a0Even despite the fact that for some business areas Google Glass turned out to be a very useful tool.\u00a0For example, in medicine – during surgical procedures.\u00a0Still, it turned out to be a very niche device and financially unviable, so Google decided to abandon it.<\/p>\n

Whatever the case, Google is investing more than ever in VR and AR.\u00a0During last year’s Google I\/O conference, the company showed off a brand new AR glasses that are somewhat of a successor to Google Glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten years ago, Google began one of its first large-scale experiments with augmented reality.\u00a0The project was called Google Glass – a device with a projection display that is mounted on the head, and controlled using voice commands.\u00a0Simply put, Google Glass is smart glasses.\u00a0The idea aroused great interest among technical enthusiasts, while the device was initially […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":158727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-158726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}