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Google Glass Updated After Almost 3 Years

takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

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https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/21/google-glass-is-apparently-still-around-and-just-got-its-first-update-in-nearly-three-years/ [techcrunch.com]

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 [google.com]" version can now hook up mice, keyboards and other Bluetooth-enabled objects to their Glass device.

Google Glass is Apparently Still Around — and Just Got Its First Update in Nearly Three Years

Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

Dust off your Google Glasses [techcrunch.com], 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 [google.com]” version can now hook up mice, keyboards and other Bluetooth-enabled objects to their Glass device.

The app update rolled out yesterday [androidpolice.com]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 [google.com] in 2015), it never really left us, it just “graduated [google.com]” from Google X after failing to capture consumer attention. Google then quietly moved it into the enterprise [techcrunch.com]. But, apparently, someone at Google is still working on the dork-inducing consumer version.

I'm still waiting for an update to my CueCat [wikipedia.org].

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