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.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 23 2017, @08:12PM
!!!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ikanreed on Friday June 23 2017, @08:44PM (1 child)
Hololens, which seems like a useful tool to enhance a working environment, if appropriately integrated, seems much more useful than something that replicates the most minimal features of a smartphone but you don't need your hands.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday June 24 2017, @12:56AM
Meh, show me a working Geordi visor and we'll discuss about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 23 2017, @08:46PM (2 children)
;-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 23 2017, @09:15PM (1 child)
I thought it was perfectly usable as a sex toy as it was, without any updates, no?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday June 24 2017, @12:58AM
PS2 can't handle enough current to power the vibration motor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford