AR/VR applications continue to be developed. Anyone who thinks this is going away needs to buy stock in buggy whips.
The trendy-creepy glasses flopped. Then the tech giant realized that the future of wearables was in factories and warehouses.
The original Glass designers had starry-eyed visions of masses blissfully living their lives in tandem with a wraparound frame and a tiny computer screen hovering over their eye. But the dream quickly gave way to disillusionment as early adopters found that it delivered less than it promised—and users became the target of shaming from outsiders concerned about privacy. Within three years, Alphabet (the parent company of Google and its sister company, the “moonshot factory” called X) had given up Glass for good—or so people assumed.
What they didn’t know was that Alphabet was commissioning a small group to develop a version for the workplace.
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