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Where did Google Glass Go?

posted by janrinok on Sunday November 16 2014, @05:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the are-glassholes-too-unpopular? dept.

Serp Kanella Gigante writes:

You might be forgiven for thinking Google Glass was a mere blip on the landscape of recent history, which raises the questions: Where is Glass? And what is its status?

Google Glass first arrived on the scene about a year-and-a-half ago, but has since been left to publicly pasture. Despite the initial troubles with battery life, a lack of apps, and even arriving to testers and developers without a particular pain point to solve, it was nevertheless widely lauded as the first major mainstream break into wearable technology.

Jump to today, and every company and their friends (and rivals) are developing wearable devices of variable shape and size, but now, according to Reuters, more than half the Glass developers it surveyed have since abandoned their projects for a number of reasons; not to mention that Glass creator Babak Parviz left Google for rival Amazon.

Wherever Google Glass is, it's not dead - yet - even though it smells funnier than usual. However, its future remains unknown.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by melikamp on Sunday November 16 2014, @05:18PM

    by melikamp (1886) on Sunday November 16 2014, @05:18PM (#116449) Journal

    And they also seem to be doing well with the k-12 education folks, especially the iPad.

    I am not disputing anything you said, and actually think you are totally spot on. But it is just fucking sad that the iPad, which is by design a device that trades games for spying on user, is even considered in education. Making students sit through commercial product ads would be a similar level of corruption, and I am sure it is happening somewhere in the US too...

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  • (Score: 1) by dlb on Sunday November 16 2014, @07:46PM

    by dlb (4790) on Sunday November 16 2014, @07:46PM (#116472)

    But it is just fucking sad that the iPad ... is even considered in education.

    The trade off for the ease of implementation and support is having the kids use a predominantly consuming device rather than one designed for producing and/or creating. Typing, graphics, video and such are painful on an iPad compared to a desktop. And then there's the whole "spying on the user" thing you mentioned. I agree, Apple is not a corporation that I trust...but no more than I trust Google and MS...and all the Oracles, Dells, HPs, and other corporations. (I don't fear falling into a police state, I fear the growing corporate state.)