Mud off your Google Glasses, People who nonetheless have them — the $1,500 face pc is again Inside the spotlight right now with A pair of replaces.
Today, in its first replace since September 2014, Google Glass acquired a “MyGlass” companion app replace, some bug fixes and now helps Bluetooth. Which means The mannequin new “XE23” mannequin can now hook up mice, keyboards and completely different Bluetooth-enabled objects to their Glass system.
The app replace rolled out sureterday and, in A great greater shock, the firmware replace for Glass acquired here out right now.
So, Glass is alive? Properly, sure, However it by no means actually died. Regardless of seeming to go The biggest Method of the Dodo (You will Have The power to’t buy it anymore and Google shut down The internet website in 2015), it by no means actually left us, it simply “graduated” from Google X after failing To grab shopper consideration. Google then quietly moved it into the enterprise. However, apparently, somebody at Google Continues to be Engaged on the dork-inducing shopper mannequin.
We don’t know why Google chosen to launch these two replaces. It’s odd for an replace to pop up after almost three years — particularly one with out An extreme quantity of of a distinction from the previous mannequin. However it reveals Google has not utterly foracquiredten about its optical-mounted wearable.