Onsale Google Glass – AM Newspaper

Google Goggles, as is now known, become history. On January 19, is the last day that the current model is sold. Google has decided to take the project from his laboratory of futuristic ideas, Google X, to give it its own identity and renew the current model. This center have come ideas like driverless car or contacts to monitor blood glucose diabetics, for example. The cessation of sales and production, officially, has been called to the scouting program. That is, it ceases to be an experiment.

The new team will be led by Tony Fadell, co-founder of Nest thermostats, company bought by the search for two billion dollars in January 2014, to enter in the field of home automation, and improve the perception of your appliances. Fadell was star designer at Apple, very close to his guru Jony Ive, until he decided to start his own company. In a post on Google+, the social networking giant’s Mountain View, Fadell insists it is a step forward: “We are excited to move from concept to reality.” “Seeing the way ahead, we realized that, officially, we have licensed from Google, to have and own team. We are preparing to offer new versions of Glass as they are ready. “

The intention of this movement is not clear. It may be the way to a sweet death or the last step before leaving the mass market, but strange that take more than two and a half years have a clear roadmap before going on sale. This contraption was only on sale for $ 500 thousand for developers recognized by the search engine in the US and UK applications. The only proven fact is an agreement signed in March 2014, Luxottica, the Italian company owns brands like Ray Ban, Oakley and Arnette, marketing and redesign them.

While Google maintains his silence and refers the post, Luxottica did predict that by the end of this year would come to market glasses with his seal. Intel, which last week showed how will your new processor is the company designated to supply Qualcomm chip as the main supplier of this device.

Google glasses were the punch that technology dress needed to be popular. They emerged in May 2012, as the great surprise of its developer conference. The proposal was groundbreaking, a tablet computer glasses, vision and augmented reality program management only mild voice and gestures. Since then, the expectation of the futuristic project has not ceased to wax and wane.

The real expansion of the glasses has been very limited. In the area of ​​the Bay of San Francisco is still common to find enthusiasts who use them in their daily lives, especially when doing sport. They are called, derisively, “glassholes” a game that unites glasses and silly.

Aside from the strange image projected during use, the problem they have faced since their inception has been privacy. Increasingly, local, passing places such as train stations and bus, and workplaces prohibit their use. One of the most common activities with the glasses is recording what is around in first person. Despite this handicap, and the still limited battery life, Forrester indicates that 43 percent of consumers remain interested in Glass.