TECH NEWS – No mistake, no joke: Google Glass has just ended!

If you look at Google’s product website, you are greeted with a farewell message: “Thank you for over a decade of innovation and partnership. As of March 15, 2023, we will no longer sell Glass Enterprise Edition. We will continue supporting Glass Enterprise Edition until September 15, 2023.” It is not some April Fool’s Day joke, but the wearable AR headset has survived this long, which we can reasonably believe has been dead for 7-8 years!

In 2013, Google Glass was seen as one of the company’s future products next to Fiber, Chrome, and Android OS. With this announcement, Google took away its second life in industrial and healthcare use. Glass had a heads-up display, could take pictures with it, and was essentially the basis for the Apple Watch and Fitbit concepts, as smartphone-related services were emerging at the time. But in 2015, Glass quietly disappeared from the scene, with a prolonged corporate life (such as extended support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 from Microsoft).

It is not by chance that we mentioned the Glass Enterprise Edition. One of the 2015 Bloomberg articles highlighted that Google Glass could be useful in a healthcare environment. In 2017, 9to5Google listed the specifications of this version of the device, but it seems that in the end, this did not help much in the uptake of the product.

At least it didn’t have the catastrophically rapid demise that Google Stadia showed, where less than three and a half years passed between the public launch and complete discontinuation, and Google stopped using the technology in the enterprise almost immediately. We had already given up on Stadia when the internal studio Stadia Games & Entertainment was closed down (and because of that, Jade Raymond, who had come from Ubisoft via EA Motive, ended up creating Haven Studios under PlayStation’s wings)…

Source: PCGamer