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Title    Google Glass is Apparently Still Around — and Just Got its First Update in Nearly Three Years
Date    Friday June 23 2017, @07:47PM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the myopic-view dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/06/23/1136246

Both takyon and Phoenix666 wrote in with news about the first Google Glass update in three years.

Phoenix666 and takyon wrote:

Dust off your Google Glasses, those who still have them — the $1,500 face computer is back in the spotlight today with a few updates.

Today, in its first update since September 2014, Google Glass got a "MyGlass" companion app update, some bug fixes and now supports Bluetooth. That means the new "XE23" version can now hook up mice, keyboards and other Bluetooth-enabled objects to their Glass device.

The app update rolled out yesterday and, in an even bigger surprise, the firmware update for Glass came out today.

So, Glass is alive? Well, yes, but it never really died. Despite seeming to go the way of the Dodo (you can't buy it anymore and Google shut down the website in 2015), it never really left us, it just "graduated" from Google X after failing to capture consumer attention. Google then quietly moved it into the enterprise. But, apparently, someone at Google is still working on the dork-inducing consumer version.

I'm still waiting for an update to my CueCat.

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Links
  1. "Phoenix666" - https://soylentnews.org/~Phoenix666/
  2. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  3. "Dust off your Google Glasses" - https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/21/google-glass-is-apparently-still-around-and-just-got-its-first-update-in-nearly-three-years/
  4. "XE23" - https://support.google.com/glass/answer/7434728?hl=enref_topic=3284652
  5. "yesterday " - http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/06/19/myglass-app-receives-update-after-almost-three-years-of-silence-includes-proper-power-management-and-notification-syncing-without-disrupting-wear-apk-download/
  6. "website" - https://www.google.com/glass/start/
  7. "graduated" - https://plus.google.com/+GoogleGlass/posts/9uiwXY42tvc
  8. "the enterprise" - https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/04/google-glass-is-alive-and-well-and-living-in-the-enterprise/
  9. "CueCat" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
  10. "Original Submission #1" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=20915
  11. "Original Submission #2" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=20898
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