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The Wearable Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Google Pulls Glass
For anyone who has actually worn Google Glass, the news today will not be a surprise, but as The Wall Street Journal reports, Google will stop selling the initial version of Glass to individuals after January 19th and is moving it from the Google X research lab to be a stand-alone unit reporting to Tony Fadell, a former Apple executive who heads Nest Labs. Analysts remain confident it will be a cajillion dollar business at some point in the future (along with Apple Watch).
As The Wall Street Journal reports,
Google Inc. is making big changes to its troubled Glass wearable-computing project, giving a former Apple Inc. executive oversight of the initiative as the Internet giant grapples with the best way to expand from its software roots into hardware.
Glass is moving from the Google X research lab to be a stand-alone unit led by Ivy Ross. Ms. Ross and her team will report to Tony Fadell, a former Apple executive who heads Nest Labs, the smart-home device company Google acquired for $3.2 billion in February 2014. Mr. Fadell will still run Nest, but he also will oversee Glass and provide strategic guidance to Ms. Ross.
The changes usher in a new strategy for Glass that will shun large, public tests of hardware prototypes in favor of the approach used by Apple and Nest, which develop consumer gadgets in secret and release them as fully finished products.
Google released the first version of Glass in April 2013 to people who applied to test the $1,500 Internet-connected eyewear through its Explorer program. Just over a year later, the device went on sale to the general public, but sales were small amid privacy complaints, technical shortcomings and a lack of obvious uses.
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Have no fear though...
Google plans to release a new version of Glass in 2015, but it hasn't been more specific about timing.
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ha ha Brin go fuck yourself and Eric, stick your driverless cars up your arse
There is a mile long line of lawyers waiting for that first fatal google car crash.
Oscars not gonna be televised neither because they're racist and George Soros been funding Ferguson protests.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/14/george-soros-funds-fergu...
Homestyle Ukrainian Cookin' Kids. Come and get it!
And Fuck you Google, Brin, et al, you fucking NSA peepers.
"Do No Harm" my ass
Transmute this
Good fucking riddance to that asshole product!
https://screen.yahoo.com/weekend-randall-meeks-000000711.html
AKA NSA-eyes.
Jeepers, creepers...
Anyone who wears these deserves to have them knocked right off.
WOMP WOMP
Reggie!?!?
Swim told me a laser pen will freak them out like they are stung by a bee.
Try it and you can pick up your teeth with broken fingers.
Those GG porn apps are addictingly powerful, so I've heard...
Full retard indeed .the academy knows about that shit
The money to be made will be from medical for retinal eyeball cancer.
Remember Ira Einhorn? To quote another poster (sorry can't remember), I hope these fuckers die in a grease fire & not from smoke inhalation. Got smart meters, cells, energy star appliances, 30c3? http://www.freezone.de/english/timetrack/data/psychopolitics/bowart_iw.htm
"Soros been funding Ferguson protests."
Exactly why I recently had to update my main governmnet and Zionism axiom from "Always about money and power," to "Always about money, power and division."
Those telling me who my enemy is ARE the enemy.
The banksters need to repay us.
"If a guy pulled a knife, and demanded my money, would I give a shit what two guys might somewhere be doing to each other?"
For the record, for you trolls. I loved the crown, the Catholic church, I am not a Anarchist but love the system, that i love canada, I love Great Britan but thought perhaps Scotland could do something great being independant.
http://presscore.ca/2014/cias-poison-dart-gun-murder-by-natural-cause.html
a 'sarc' woulda helped you with the greens, though I'm not sure you needed it...its a feeding frenzy today and a guy has to take that into account..
Greenhorn
well DK,
They can do it invisibly.
This is not technology, this is enslavement.
Yeah, just like the smart phone.
And Google didn't have the foresight to realize people could use a smartphone to do everything Google Glass does without looking like a dork.
Not to mention without wasting time, as that is all I see people doing with smart phones these days. Wasting time until they die.
Only if you let them......
Wait, what, internet providers to, the horror, the horror....
Stop taunting us, Big Brother!
We want our www.google.gov implants!
We DESERVE 24/7/365 tracking!
All Google Glass tm really needs is "the killer app."
My suggestion? Any attractive woman you see out and about on the street will, through the miracle of modern processing, be rendered in her birthday suit with intelligenta tm extrapolation from all available data. Breast size and shape, thigh dimensions as well as ass firmness and height will all be calculated with scientific precision. You won't need to guess anymore. And don't forget to ask about nipple enhancer tm; it costs a little more, but after you use it we think you'll agree that it's worth a little extra.
Note that Intelligenta tm may at times render the likes of Hitlery Clinton. Sorry, no refunds nor liabilities, whether explicit or implied.
I like PosterBoy.
You can basically geo-tag any location and any Explorer in the vicinity can see what you put up there. Like Banksy for douchebags.
"Like Banksy for douchebags."
Nice.
Does your app come with a Lingerie Plug-Inn ?
Again, that's an extra, but space is a limitation. Call Google for details.
Will said feature bluetooth connect to a fleshlight?
Now that's just sick, and the product of a sick mind.
Have you considered just getting her phone number?
Have you seen the POV software they put on your iPad with the "tablet fucker" appendage/docking station? It now responds to Glass with zoom and motion, making the experience ultra-realistic.
Not that I've tried it, I've only heard about it from a friend.
the killer app? http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/21/magic-leap-tech/
and their patents.... http://stks.freshpatents.com/Magic-Leap-Inc-nm1.php
They say some religious dude covers you 24/7/365, sounds like gov, differend spelling, b\dunnow
"We DESERVE 24/7/365 tracking!"
Ask any farmer how many animals they have on the farm, and they can tell you exactly, down to the number of stray cats.
Their animals are assets and are tracked.
The banksters need to repay us.
NSA needs more time to program the operating system.
They'd do better if they worked on a price tag. Lemmings would actually line up if price was around 150.
Should've called it "iWear".
#iShoveitupyourasssideways
Y'all can tell I had a really spiritual morning. During prayer and meditation, I had this vision of somebody beaten to death with a Louisville Slugger.
Just joking of course, nothing's really wrong.
After my black watermelon joke yesterday, I can't help but feel responsible.
Barnaby, I laughed my ass off. Thanks.
I'll forward my shrink's bill.
That was one of those that Mrs K asks what's so funny and she starts laughing manically. Ah life's diversions as found at The Hedge
iWar ©
fixed
because subjects are enemies ™
And Reggie Middleton gets gob smacked again.
It's a conspiracy I tells ya. Somethin out there is out to git him.
bro to bro-you been raped ober da head...
"It's a conspiracy I tells ya. Somethin out there is out to git him."
Yeah, that would be his own all consuming ego.
Perfect WB.
Lord have mercy.
Remind me to never make you mad at me Wild Bill;)
Even a brother from up north gets a red neck in the hot sun.
Haha.
How about one with Stevie Wonder Glass?
Frickin' brilliant!!!! Well done sir. I applaud you impartiality. Where is that ultra con pimping, Glass wearing Reggie? His last few post here on ZH were sooooooooo pathetic...........and un-noticed. Oh how the mighty have fallen. LOL!!!
I guess they will put the google barges up for sale now. Or sell them to the NSA as houseboats to party on
CIA might need some more Ghost Torture Ships, why not set up a meeting?
The barges are already gone. The city of San Francisco killed them with regulations because the NIMBY a-holes didn't want their view of the bay changed.
Is it compatible with my Segway?
Just like Segways, Google Glasses will wind up being used by the police.
No offense, but Glass is a little too smart for the uh, meatwagons we currently employ to enforce policy and collect rewards. Maybe this new iteration will have a dumbed-down Microsoft Bob clone version.
Leaked snapshot of the police version that's in development: http://i.imgur.com/sK99EmQ.png
Ok, Glass, deploy pepper spray and ready tazer.
With smart triggers, you may have something. "OK Glass, enable weapons."
That's actually a great idea. I love this site.
It's just so gay.
The new version will have rainbow frames so they can be worn with pride.
Mine already do. I got the Sally Jesse Raphael version of the frames and had them wrapped.
An imonocle might sell.
I wish you hadn't stripped out the Klink part. That was a LOL.
Eyeball Laudinum via Reddit Monocle app for Glass.
Do you like being the eyes of the NSA? You going to be first in line for their brain implants too?
I won't junk ya, but you only share what you want with these things. They're not like a Kinect, recording your every stroke and misfire.
Worthy of a broken nose. Such faggotry. I mean no disrespect to cocksuckers world wide who actually provide a valuable service.
Please do try. This faggot cocksucker will make you beg before I snap your fucking arm, and retain video evidence to prove my justification. I will also email to your mom the video clip of your begging.
--->Sergey Brin
--->Pajama Boy
Who's more aspirational?
If there was any research done behind the scenes during the authoring of this sensationalist headline - it would have been noted that Google is going to be releasing the next iteration of glass later this year. Holy hell. People (and headline writers) are idiots.
Alternatively, one can read the entire article, including the last couple of sentences.
Holy hell. People that only read the headlines are idiots.
Or HFT bots?
Yes.
Of course HFT bots.
And politicians.
Ouch.....Lol..... A fellow Hedger, who shall remain anonymous, once responded to a comment I made and he told me to stop reading the articles and react to the headlines like the rest of us. Best chuckle I had all day.
At last. Bury those glassholes
i hate google. i hate apple. i hate shit like this. fuck it and live life in real time.
how about a walk in the woods w/o any fucking gizzmo stapped on your body. hey try a real conversation with someone. the minute i get interrupted by a gizzmo i say "i gotta go" "have a nice day" bye...
I agree with you. I don't use it this way, though.
And how pray tell could I feed my ZeeHedge addiction if I stepped away from the screen?... But yes, I completely agree with you. The Great Outdoors trumps even ZeeHedge and is in the only antidote for the sorrow & despair ZH brings.
Ironically enough, if you had Glass you could go walk in the park, browse and post with very little effort. I'm actually sailing right now.
Yesterday I snapped a pic of a rainbow. Trouble is there was NO RAIN.
Light refracting from aluminum nano. The skies were white.
Breath deep, the gathering plumes
Watch light fade in every room
Perhaps it was the Rainbow Coalition
Or was it Gay Pride?
+10, Willy for the adaptation of Moody Blues.
Damn, we are getting old.....
Peace out
Yeah, I got to the woods a lot and think about people in bushcraft who constantly do reviews, upload photos, make videos etc. I don't get it. Maybe I'm just lazy but it seems like an awful lot of work to document my walk in the woods and all the steps I took to build a fire.
(No offense to people that do this, as some are very helpful in reteaching skills that have been lost.)
Lemme guess, they'll call it... iSee or iC?
iHole
Operation Mass Brain Cancer: DELAYED
I like my Glass, and I like being an Explorer. It doesn't mean it's been easy, but as far as making, sharing and researching, it's really a wonderful device. Essentially you get a HUD that's voice-responsive, and with additional battery support is an awesome teaching tool.
I'm glad it's getting a makeover: my damaged eye could use the interaction/training, and it will be great to see it be swappable to the left side.
Also, to play guitar or violin means to learn notes & chords, and the bone-transfer sound element makes training visual, hands-free, voice-responsive, and correct-sounding. That's just a bonus.
They seem like a good idea for recording what you see when driving.
Only Vine-length videos or it overheats. You have the option of extending it, but as Google says, it's for micro-interactions. Like looking up a wiring diagram, a map of Los Santos, a recipe, code reference and more.
Fans of the product resoundingly stated they will find other ways of being douche bags.
The phony wearable revolution is bumping into the actual demand of BIGGER screens on iPhone 6 and Samsung Note....
Making shit just because they can. Thank God not everyone is a dork. You see how popular the EarPhone is.
I'm going to wind up in jail because of this stupidity. Point your Glass my way, and Imma gonna bust 'em, right on your face. I do not consent to any searches.
My husband (who does repair work for multiple customers a day) has told me to prepare myself for this, bc his customers are already video-ing them w their phones - this would be the last straw for him and he'd probably snap.
The majority of my breadwinning for 20 years and counting is with the customer watching what I do to his/her computer or network. If you can't let them watch you, find a new line of work or retire.
Yeah...'watching'. Way to miss the entire fucking point.
Watch, record, take notes, who gives a fuck? What does your husband do, secret nuclear stuff that requires secret nuclear clearance? He must be very important.
Yeah, you go girl. Like anything you do or say is important enough to record!
Tell me Barnaby, where can one find such an exaggerated sense of self importance all the while surrenduring total control of your brain to the state?
Perhaps the damage has been done.
I don't understand your reply. My response was to someone thinking they're so important as to take up my Glass's limited storage space?
great argument Barnaby. lol
Great husband who snaps when he's held accountable. (ROFL? are acronyms still a thing?)
Thinking they're so important...
You do know emf causes cancer don't you?
God I hope so, only instead of it being "John Travolta big idea cancer" I hope it's "quick death cancer." You people are so, so intolerably stupid.
We shall see.
Just cuz I'm the nice person I is...
ZBig stated the US Embassy had the highest cancer rate in the WORLD.
Woody Woodpecker
If luck has it, we'll revisit your intolerably stupid remark in the not too distant future.
Google has become a verb that means spying.
Google is extremely dangerous to the privacy of Americans.
What the fuck were they thinking with this thing?
Has become? WTF? Stick a space between the 'o's.
It always was a company about spying and it says so right there in the name.
@css1971
It's way more than that.
http://www.freezone.de/english/timetrack/data/psychopolitics/bowart_iw.htm#XI
Perfect time for Reggie to regroup.
Just think of the stuxnet possibilities. Muahahaha.
Shit ! I haven't tried them yet . They are not available in my nation .
Stupidest shit ever. You look like a complete fucking A-hole wearing that shit on your face. It screams DOUCHEBAG. R.I.P. GLASSHOLES.
I know. And at the time I only cashed out 1.1 (self-mined) BTC to buy them.
Why does something I wear make you so angry? Are you as angry at my bowler? That guy's MuVo or GoPro? The dozens of cams in every store and on every street?
Shut it, Glassholes.
Apple made great prducts when they were designed well. Now they are just fashion statements and terribly low on design qualities. Google glass... now that's neither designed well nor much of a fashion statement. They'd sell a lot more of them if they didn't look so stupid.
The only glass I care about, my new Blackberry Passport Gorilla Glass screen.
Creepy Google Voyeurism glasses are finally shit canned. Blimey!
Can’t wait for the Crapple iWatch to launch. You can either check the time by pulling out your paired iphone device or look at your wrist. We must create NASA redundancies in our life, in case we feel like picking on the Pope regarding freedom of speech.
The Pope vs. the Queen
The Pope and Queen Elizabeth were standing on a balcony beaming at thousands of people in the forecourt below. The Queen says to the Pope out of the corner of her mouth, "I bet you a tenner that I can make every English person in the crowd go wild with just a wave of my hand." The Pope says, "No way. You can't do that." The Queen says, "Watch this." So the Queen waves her hand and every English person in the crowd goes crazy, waving their little plastic Union Jacks on sticks and cheering, basically going ballistic. So the Pope is standing there thinking, "Uh oh, what am I going to do? I never thought she'd be able to do it." So he thinks to himself for a minute and then he turns to her and says,” I bet you I can make every Irish person in the crowd go wild, not just now, but for the rest of the week, with just one nod of my head." The Queen goes, "No way, it can't be done." So the Pope head-butts her.
/sarc
So on a "cutting-edge" financial board I'm the only asshole with the means to explore Glass?
Lame.
BTW I dictated this from the gunwale of my little sloop, as I do most days.
It would appear so.
Sail on sailor.
The next iteration will be even worse for privacy. I guarantee.
Sure, because the Explorer is completely safe unless you share. It can only get less private. ???
Someone is exploring 404.
Google Glass Exits X Labs As Explorer Program Shuts Down, Team Now Reports To Tony Fadell
That's great news. Like a PS3 Fat, Glass will be among the only tech that has ever grown its value.
PS3 Fat? Please tell me you don't live in your parents basement. Glass has been around for ages. Both Ford and GM had a front windshield that would defrost snow/frost in seconds. Problem was the aftermarket cost to replace such luxury was exorbitant. One stone or nick in windshield would fuck up the entire system, you could only replace the manufacture spec glass window or skip that feature by installing a generic tinted window.
What is so special about google glass? Other than being software driven. Please explain.
Edit: One of my older cars uses a camera when placing car in reverse. Camera was built into rear view mirror (glass). All new camera's are built into console, which is stupid. Most people are looking forward and backing out. (No Glass, LCD screen). Most of us grew up without a camera, turned around to back out of a parking space.
While you're using your fingers and toes to understand the tech in your car's camera, the rest of the world does other things. Happy driving!
Correct. We are both A type personalities that disagree to agree. No harm or fowl.
We always drive safe!
BMW M3 GTS VS BMW M5 F10 Ring Taxi Nürburgring
More shit you don't need was all I ever thought.
Glassholes