Google Discontinues the Glass Enterprise Edition (9to5google.com) 27
Google has announced today that it will no longer be selling its Glass Enterprise Edition 2 headsets, with support set to be discontinued later this year. 9to5Google reports: After the commercial failure of its original Google Glass headsets, the company segued the AR product into a solution for businesses and industrial customers, intended to allow workers to stay connected in a hands-free way. This lineup, dubbed Glass Enterprise Edition, received a second-generation update in 2019, which was built on the Snapdragon XR1 hardware platform.
Google has updated many of the pages related to the Google Glass Enterprise Edition to announce that sales of the headset have been discontinued as of March 15. For existing Glass Enterprise Edition customers, Google will continue to support the headset until September 15, 2023, though the company has said that "no software updates from Google are planned." Instead, "support" here means that customers will be able to receive replacement devices under the existing programs until that deadline.
After the deprecation date, all existing headsets will continue to work as normal, and third-party developers will still be able to update their applications, which are usually responsible for any business-specific tasks. One caveat, though, is that Google says the "Meet on Glass" app that launched less than a year ago is only guaranteed to work until the September 15 deadline, after which the app has the potential to break.
Google has updated many of the pages related to the Google Glass Enterprise Edition to announce that sales of the headset have been discontinued as of March 15. For existing Glass Enterprise Edition customers, Google will continue to support the headset until September 15, 2023, though the company has said that "no software updates from Google are planned." Instead, "support" here means that customers will be able to receive replacement devices under the existing programs until that deadline.
After the deprecation date, all existing headsets will continue to work as normal, and third-party developers will still be able to update their applications, which are usually responsible for any business-specific tasks. One caveat, though, is that Google says the "Meet on Glass" app that launched less than a year ago is only guaranteed to work until the September 15 deadline, after which the app has the potential to break.
Move over firehose, we need a meme gallery (Score:3, Funny)
Re: Move over firehose, we need a meme gallery (Score:1)
Re: Move over firehose, we need a meme gallery (Score:4, Interesting)
Nah I wouldn't.
There is literally Google, and then there the others. No one has a track of cancelling so many projects that people are still using, had invested in, or would like to continue possibly by having Google open source the project, but no. Google is google.
That must be why there are site like the google cemetery.
Nobody come even close, by thousands miles.
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Like this? https://killedbygoogle.com/ [killedbygoogle.com]
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Here you go:
https://killedbygoogle.com/ [killedbygoogle.com]
Risk (Score:3)
Re:Risk (Score:5, Interesting)
One thing that has been clear from Google's handling of various discontinuations is that things don't disappear. Most cases there's either a migration path, things continue to work as normal (as in this case), or there is a refund process (e.g. Stadia refunds and an update allowing the controller to work with PC).
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such as Google Groups ... oh
This was still around (Score:1)
How?
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Did it ever really launch? Sounds more like a failed beta of a failed beta from v1.
All these companies so desperately pushing ar/vr. A technology that doesn't fulfill any needs.
For a while it looked like a few porn producers were trying it out but if the porn guys can't sell a new tech like this, no one can.
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For a while it looked like a few porn producers were trying it out but if the porn guys can't sell a new tech like this, no one can.
So much this. Porn drove the VCR market, Porn was critical in advancing the Internet , and consumer personal computers and smartphones. That it failed VR, shows that it is a very big fail.
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Even for home use I'm not seeing it. My wife got our kid an "oculus quest 2" (whatever the latest greatest best version was a year or two ago).
I created a fake FB account for it and went through the setup and demo process then messed around for 10-15 minutes and gave it to her.
I never used it again or even considered borrowing it back for anything. Kiddo played around with it for a few weeks then done even though a few of her online gamer buddies had one, too. Fortunately the color hides dust because it'
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A lot of these tech companies big layoffs also come on the fact that they have been putting a lot of money and resources into the CEO's pet hobby projects. Many of which make cool Sci-fi, but often provide any meaningful benefit over the previous way.
Granted it is actually difficult to predict what is going to be a bomb vs the next big thing. For the iPhone there is a Newton, The 3D TV had failed, but watching on your phone is a big thing.
So it is hard to say if a company is pushing the next big thing, or
Apple? (Score:3)
People inside Google have enough corporate espionage access, however informal, to know what Apple is working on.
It seems like they decided it's not worth competing.
Tim seems pretty proud of actually developing a new product.
Not that anyone should ever rely on Google for business, but come September this will seem obvious in retrospect.
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Someone at Google probably realized that people wouldn't wear a device that beamed advertisements directly into their eyeballs 24/7 and they couldn't figure out another way to monetize it.
Re:One word... (Score:5, Insightful)
Ahh yes the lovely tradition of labelling someone for something they bought rather than how they act and use it. It was a fantastic word. It shows us how much of an actual arsehole people who use the word "glasshole" can be.
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Says the glasshole
I do not own nor have ever used a Google Glass. Good job making wild assumptions to demonstrate to the world your stupidity.
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Ahh yes the lovely tradition of labelling someone for something they bought rather than how they act and use it. It was a fantastic word. It shows us how much of an actual arsehole people who use the word "glasshole" can be.
The problem with the glasses was that they were an invasion of private spaces. Wear them into a bar or restaurant, and you have a consumer surveillance device.
People interact in these places. Sometimes they discuss business, hook up, sometimes cheat, sometimes someone thinks they are cheeating but only having a business dinner or happy hour drinks, and in today's world, where some people post intimate details including names of their dates, or post details and names of someone they are stalking, or che
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A big part of the pejorative "glasshole" came from was many of the supporters claiming that you need to stop doing things and you didn't have to worry about the glass wearer invading your privacy.
Not really. It turned into a generic term applied to anyone who owned a pair, very much not even remotely criticising any specific action, but rather focusing only the mere ownership alone.
You can try to re-write history all you want, but the reality is most people who used the word glasshole (including here on Slashdot) were just worthless judgmental arseholes themselves.
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A big part of the pejorative "glasshole" came from was many of the supporters claiming that you need to stop doing things and you didn't have to worry about the glass wearer invading your privacy.
Not really. It turned into a generic term applied to anyone who owned a pair, very much not even remotely criticising any specific action, but rather focusing only the mere ownership alone.
Of course it did, it was a catchy term. But I don't recall mentioning that. I wrote about the origins of the name, not individual users. More on that below.
You can try to re-write history all you want, but the reality is most people who used the word glasshole (including here on Slashdot) were just worthless judgmental arseholes themselves.
It isn't rewriting history, no matter how triggered you get, no matter how angry you get, no matter how little you read what I wrote.
Yer gonna get a diagrammed sentence now! I haven't done this in a while.
I wrote and amazingly enough, you quoted what I wrote and then tried to call it rewriting history: "A big part of the pejorative "glasshole" cam
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>"Ahh yes the lovely tradition of labelling someone for something they bought rather than how they act and use it."
Yes there are ways to use them without invading the privacy of everyone around you or just being rude or dangerous. However, when used as typically marketed (at least the personal ones), the term can be pretty appropriate. And just the act of wearing them around others can put everyone on edge, whether they are on or off or recording or whatnot.
Also, yes there are similar people with phone
Meet on glass? (Score:2)
It's a toy for publicity, this is expected. (Score:2)
Google is an advertising company that piddles with other projects to attract attention. That obviously works. Mission accomplished, toy goes away.