Google Inc. is halting individual sales of its wearable Glass and borrowing a page from Apple Inc.’s playbook by developing the next generation of the controversial device out of the limelight that hurt the first version.
Glass is moving from the Google X research lab to be a standalone unit. Glass chief Ivy Ross will report to Tony Fadell, the chief executive of smart-home device maker Nest Labs who will oversee Glass and provide strategy guidance to Ms. Ross.
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