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Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Re: Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Post by senttoschool »

cm277 wrote: post #65
senttoschool wrote: post #3

More than 10 years later, it's still not good enough for business adoption? Wow. When it was first released, it was really neat. I'd imagine that we'd all be wearing AR glasses by now.

There were some decent use cases I've heard off; supplier compliance got quite big during Covid and AFAIK stayed big. Instead of flying out a team to inspect a factory, just ask someone to walk around the factory wearing Glass. Zero notice, much less chance to cheat, waaaay cheaper. That and documentation lookup should have made for decent enterprise sales. Probably not big enough to satisfy the big G.

Why can't you just make the person wear a GoPro or some kind of live camera? I'm sure there are other solutions cheaper than Google Glasses for this.

Re: Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Post by largepeepee »

danpalmer wrote: post #63
throwaw12 wrote: post #25

At this point, I think issue is not about products Google build, it is about how Google put their incentives in place. - Build new shiny thing -> promoted - Support shiny thing -> it's not difficult, everyone can do it This type of culture is influencing future direction of Google products, they put together awesome team, solve problem and get from 0 to 1, then team moves on, others don't have incentive to make 1 to…

This is a meme that people love and there's some truth to it, but also a number of ways in which it's inaccurate. Sure you can get promoted for launching a new thing, but you can also get promoted for fixing a first pass implementation, for scaling something from a small user base to a large user base, and so on, as long as you can show the "impact" of the change – whether that's revenue, savings, productivity, impro…

Exactly why google sucks at it.

You get promoted for launching hot new products, quickly scaling it or fixing obviously broken ones.

The boring grind in-between them is much harder to show value so few teams are motivated to work on it.

Re: Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Post by bborud »

CharlieDigital wrote: post #56
bborud wrote: post #46

I wish they had spun it off so it wouldn't just have died within Google. It seems that any project that isn't wildly popular is just starved of talent inside Google. Outside Google with a little bit of money and a dedicated team, I don't see why this couldn't have been a success. What I would really like was a product that was developed to be affordable, fairly open so you can easily integrate it into your own system…

Check out apprentice.io The founder initially fell in love with Google Glass and went on to build an AR/VR startup around it. They are life sciences focused, but I see no reason it couldn't fit your use case.

Interesting, but I think the device is a bit too bulky and sticks too far out to work in my use case. The environment where we'd use this is essentially a giant machine shop where you have to wear a hard-hat, it is noisy and dirty and you often have to get into tight spaces with cabling and piping everywhere.

Besides it doesn't look like they are primarily focused on selling the device itself.

For a device to work for us it would either have to be so small it can be worn with a hard hat, and not stick out beyond the helmet and incorporate safety glasses, or it would have to be a lightweight helmet mounted system that can be folded out of the way when not in use so people don't have to change helmets.

With a helmet mounted device you could incorporate the camera(s) in the helmet and perhaps even include an IR camera as well. For the stuff we work on on that project, having an IR camera, would actually be of immense help. Both for on-site work (being able to see what temperature different parts of the machine are with some accuracy), for remote observation and for documenting.

Re: Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Post by rvz »

Not even a SINGLE mention of North glasses in this thread. [0] Highly likely the reason for closing this down since they already have the IP and technology.

So why would Google want to run two teams (Glass and North) in parallel when they can discontinue Glass and merge both teams into one? It would be news if they closed down their newly acquired AR glasses by North [1], but they are still in the AR glasses race.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/30/google-acquires-north-augmen...

[1] https://9to5google.com/2022/05/11/google-ar-glasses-translat...

Re: Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Post by kilroy123 »

jacooper wrote: post #85

Now watch apple trigger red alerts in Google's and Samsung's HQ by releasing their AR glasses. As much as i hate Apple products, I can't deny that most of the time they are the leaders and the rest are just copies.

It sounds like that is dead in the water for the next decade... I predict that work will continue at other startups and will be acquired in the future by Apple.

Re: Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Post by is_true »

throwaw12 wrote: post #25

At this point, I think issue is not about products Google build, it is about how Google put their incentives in place. - Build new shiny thing -> promoted - Support shiny thing -> it's not difficult, everyone can do it This type of culture is influencing future direction of Google products, they put together awesome team, solve problem and get from 0 to 1, then team moves on, others don't have incentive to make 1 to…

I think Google should create Google Spinner. A division whose only purpose is to spin off projects

Re: Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Post by hobo_mark »

is_true wrote: post #88
throwaw12 wrote: post #25

At this point, I think issue is not about products Google build, it is about how Google put their incentives in place. - Build new shiny thing -> promoted - Support shiny thing -> it's not difficult, everyone can do it This type of culture is influencing future direction of Google products, they put together awesome team, solve problem and get from 0 to 1, then team moves on, others don't have incentive to make 1 to…

I think Google should create Google Spinner. A division whose only purpose is to spin off projects

It sort of exists: Area 120.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_120

https://area120.google.com

Re: Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Post by devrand »

lynx23 wrote: post #59

Google Glass, Google Car, Google Plus... Its always the same pattern. A lot of pre-release advertisment, followed by a release of a beta version and another press release declaring the end of the product. At this point, I wouldn't adopt any Google offering because I sort of expect by default it will go away in 6 months or 12.

Isn’t that exactly not the case here? This product existed for over a decade.
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