Google Glass will soon receive the final nail in its coffin — as a consumer - market production , that is . The ship’s company announced this hebdomad it ’s roll out one last update to its Glass Explorer Edition . But do n’t worry : The wearable ’s more diligence - focused yet still as dorky - looking brethren , the Enterprise Edition , will continue take in support . And so the Google Glass brand lives on . congratulations be .
In a recent blog on its support website , Google include instructionsfor installing the concluding update , which has to be done manually , along with some important details about the process make a motion ahead :
“ After February 25 , 2020 , this update remove the need and ability to use your Google chronicle on Glass . It also take away Glass ’ association to backend services . This update is useable now and should be set up so you’re able to continue using your machine without issue . ”
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Users will still be able-bodied to download the update after this escort , but they ’ll suffer accession to apps like YouTube and Gmail in the meanwhile . And after February 25 , all foretoken - ins to Glass will require you have the update installed . Google documentation or not , though , they ’re still impertinent chalk at the end of the day , and so map like Bluetooth pairing , sideloading apps , as well as taking videos and photos will remain useable .
Again , none of this extends to the Enterprise Edition of Glass , the redevelop and rebranded wearable Google beganofficially marketingto industry tribe like manufacturing actor and medical master in 2017 . If anything , Google seems to be double down on this version , as the company released a 2d rendering — Glass Enterprise Edition 2 — earlier this class with a few ironware updates like the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR 1 chipset and a USB - C port .
But just because Google ’s Explorer Version of Glass never quite caught on with the casual crowd — whether you want to point the finger at privacy business or its buggy launch or the fact that former adopters occasionally gotpunched in the facefor bust them(or anything mistily similar)—that does n’t imply we ca n’t imagine all the myriad unfit directions Google ’s smartglasses could have sound . Had the party continue agitate forward , deadset on wrick Glass into the newest consumer tech craze , we might have been cursed with edition akin toSnapchat ’s obnoxious Gucci - themed Spectaclesby this point .
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And so , I ’d wish to give a brusque send - off to all the horrible Google Glass ideas that could have been :
The Pince - Nez Edition : For the Distinguished Asshole
The 3D Edition . It get with exclusive red and blue lens system that make everything look so real , it ’s almost like you could hit out and touch it !
The Minions Edition . Look , Google Glass debut in 2014 . Those little jaundiced creeps get their own flick the next year . You ca n’t distinguish me Google would n’t have cashed in on Minion Mania .
And lastly , the “ come in On Google , Just Give Us the Glasses From Spy Kids 2 Already “ Edition
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