3. Google Glass was supposed to be the eyewear of the future, but that future sounds pretty grim—at least if you read Reuters' latest report on the cyborg-like eyewear. While Reuters doesn't seem to have any evidence that the Glass project has been shelved—a notion which Google denies, naturally—Reuters does paint a surpisingly compelling picture of fading interest in the technology. Nine of the 16 app Glass app makers that Reuters contacted said they'd abandoned their projects—including a guy who won $10,000 for his efforts. "The Glass Collective," a venture effort to fund apps for Glass, has quietly disappeared. Three of Google's key employees on the Glass team have left. One source tells the publication that a consumer launch has been delayed, possibly till 2015. Still, a launch is a launch, and Google says it's still happening sooner or later. "We are as committed as ever to a consumer launch.
Read full article from Is Google Glass Dying?
No comments:
Post a Comment