Google Glass still alive

Google Glass was widely presented to the public in 2012 and generated considerable interest, including as one of the products of Google. Later, a group of selected participants Explorer Edition received at its disposal for testing specimens glasses for the price of 1500 $.

Last on the Internet began to appear (probably for a reason) that the project did not come out Google Glass Explorer Edition of the stage and his fate as a whole is not enviable. Not only because the number of news about the project decreased, but also on a number of specific reasons: for example, the project founder Babak Parviz (Babak Parviz) left Google and now works in the Amazon, technical analysts Reuters утверждают, that many developers to abandon the project for Glass (including Twitter), and Glass Collective a > - a joint initiative to create applications - all quietly disappeared. A number of local bloggers have also expressed their opinion: Google Glass at best - it's something like a handy camcorder for shooting from the "first person", but the real application scenarios gadget is not visible.

According to the sources Wall Street Journal, the new version of Google Glass will receive a new, as yet unknown, the chip from Intel, which will be replaced Texas. This replacement is likely due to the fact that shortly after the release of the first points left Texas Instruments smartphone business and discontinued support for most of its products in this area. Also a serious problem became Android 4.0, devoid of at the time of release in 2011 many of the "features" such as Notification API, Bluetooth LE (Low Energy) and lower power consumption as a whole, it would be very appropriate for mobile devices, the accused just as fast Low battery.

However, the update to the latest version of Android has led to the fact that the glasses behaved disgracefully: overheated spontaneously restarts and all broke (description of the problem can be found here < / a> and here - screenshots instead of references, because the original Google Glass forum is open only to participants in the program Explorer). Thus, the hardware upgrade Glass, is supposed to solve the problems described above, at the same time providing a more memory and speed than it was done in 2011.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/242266/