Google Glass Is Dead, Long Live Google Glass

DumbSwede writes BBC reports on the demise of Google Glass as we know it: Google Glass sales halted but firm says kit is not dead. One can only assume there will be dissatisfied early adopters and developers given Google's decision. Here is to hoping Google Glass 2.0 (assuming there is one) will be better received. The Verge expands a bit on the re-org that the linked BBC article mentions, as a result of which Google Glass moves from the Google X incubator to its own division: Google's announcing today Glass is "graduating" from the Google X experimental projects incubator to become its own independent division — a division that will report into Nest's Tony Fadell. Current Glass head Ivy Ross will retain day-to-day authority, but she'll report to Fadell. Nest itself will remain separate and independent, and Tony will still be in charge there as well.

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just like slashdot beta

[slashdice]

or slashdot, for that matter. might as well just mod_redirect this shit to goatse or dice.com

Good riddance to these creepy spy glasses

[Anonymous Coward]

I won't miss them, and hopefully nobody else will either.

Re:My company bought a Google Glass

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess I can pick up a pain on eBay soon for cheap...

What's in the glass?

Pain.

Stop! I hold at your neck the Gom Jabbar, the high-handed enemy. This one tracks and monetizes only humans.

Re:the Edsels keep on coming

[Anonymous Coward]

lol @ anyone who wasted $1500 to be a guinea pig for a now utterly worthless piece of vapourware

Re:My company bought a Google Glass

[BarbaraHudson]

Or you can wait a year for Apple to release theirs. It'll be designed for hipsters. That means that it looks like an ordinary pair of mirrored shades, and can overlay either eye, or both if you want 3D without "shutters LCD glasses".

You'll even be able to wear your sunglasses at night ...

And it will be "only" $799".