Google Glass sales halted but firm says kit is not dead
 

Google is ending sales of its Google Glass eyewear.

The company insists it is still committed to launching the smart glasses as a consumer product, but will stop producing Glass in its present form.

Instead it will focus on "future versions of Glass" with work carried out by a different division to before.

The Explorer programme, which gave software developers the chance to buy Glass for $1,500 (£990) will close.

The programme was launched in the United States in 2013. It was then opened up to anyone and was launched in the UK last summer.

It had been expected that it would be followed reasonably quickly by a full consumer launch.

From next week, the search firm will stop taking orders for the product but it says it will continue to support companies that are using Glass.

New home
The Glass team will also move out of the Google X division which engages in "blue sky" research, and become a separate undertaking, under its current manager Ivy Ross.

She and the Glass team will report to Tony Fadell, the chief executive of the home automation business Nest, acquired by Google a year ago.

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I listed to a geek podcast and the host who loves glass is now on his 3rd pair due to defects.

3? Product needs a redesign.

I would buy one

the average person has no interest in that not really surprised.

There are a lot of things people would much rather spend $1500 on. Price-wise, for it to have ever caught on...I don't think it could have cost more than $299

Even at $299, I can't imagine too many people would want to wear something that makes them look like complete idiots. Oh yeah, and call themselves an "Explorer" :1orglaugh

The 1200 - 1500 price tag meant that you got every new version for free.

Glass is now out of Google X and being handled by another firm in order to get it set up for retail sales.

Stop reposting news if you don't know dick about what's even happening.

It's hard enough to get laid looking fat so why look like a fat cyborg?

As long as they keep the camera it will forever be a dead consumer product.