Google stopped producing its wearable technology Google Glass in its present form earlier this year, but the company didn’t give up on the idea of developing “augmented reality glasses”. The technology, which has always generated news, will continue to do so.
New details revealed
Following a recent FCC filing discovery, 9to5Google has exposed details of the Google Glass Enterprise Edition. This next version of smart glasses will be designed to being used in the “enterprise space”, as opposed to the Explorer Edition, which was for general consumer use.
The updated Google Glass reportedly features a larger prism display, an Intel Atom processor that will be faster than existing Android Wear smart watches, increased connectivity, faster video streaming, and enhanced battery life.
The next edition seems to be tackling some of the problems that the former Google Glass had, ranging from battery life and heating issues to eyestrain complaints related to the size of the prism display.
Targeting the enterprise market
Tech-experts believe that targeting enterprise costumers instead of consumers will be a total shift in strategy that may shape the future of Google Glass. Earlier this year, in a statement posted to its Google+ account, the company had said that the Google Glass team would move out of the “Google X” incubator labs and become a separate division.
The resuscitated Google Glass project
The technology has definitely been at the centre of many cooperate storms but the Google Glass project is not dead. While the next generation of Glass is still in the embryonic stages of development, Stephen Hall posted on 9to5 that several different prototypes of a future Glass hardware revision are being tested within some Glass for Work developers.
The Glass for Work programme which kicked off in 2014, gives potential partners access to the Glass Development Kit.
Earlier this year, Google had joined forces with Italian eyewear company Luxottica – the same company behind Ray-Ban and Oakley – to design the next version of Glass fashionable and something people would like to actually wear.
Although little details have been unveiled regarding the next Google Glass, a new patent published recently gave consumers yet another peek at what it might look like. Google previously said it planned to release new Google Glass editions later this year.
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