GOOGLE RELEASING GOOGLE GLASSES |

GOOGLE RELEASING GOOGLE GLASSES

Google is making its latest  headset, Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2, available for direct purchase, nearly a year after launching it through select workplace partners for $999 a unit. the worth remains an equivalent (or slightly more if you get the Glass “pod” attached to a band), but Google says you not need to undergo a “solution provider” to get one.

That’s especially helpful for developers who might want to tinker with Google’s heads-up display and haven’t been ready to easily do so since the device’s initial, ill-fated “Explorer Edition” launch way back in 2014.

Again, this is often an enterprise product, so it’s not designed for everyday consumer use. It’s primarily for jobs in construction and on factory floors also as within the medical field and other disciplines which will make use of an easier heads-up display which don’t (yet) require something sort of a full-blown mixed reality device like Microsoft HoloLens.

“Since Glass Enterprise Edition 2 launched last May, we’ve seen strong demand from developers and businesses who have an interest in building new, helpful enterprise solutions for Glass,” Jay Kothari, the Google Glass project lead, writes during a blog post published on Tuesday. “In order to form it easier for them to start out working with Glass, they will now purchase devices directly from one among our hardware resellers, like CDW, Mobile Advance or SHI.”

This is the second iteration of Google’s AR headset for the workplace, to not be confused with the first Google Glass device that went on sale for $1,500 six years ago. That device never materialized into a full-blown consumer product, after concerns over its viability as an actual computing platform and criticism over its design and public recording capabilities made it a logo of unwanted Silicon Valley excess.

But thanks partially to substantial growth within the AR market over the previous couple of years, pushed along by competitors like HoloLens and mobile AR technologies like Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore, Glass found a second life in 2017 as a workplace tool.

The second-generation model came to call at May 2019 with a far better processor and camera also as a USB-C port and other minor updates to its components and its design. It still features the signature translucent prism through which you view the heads-up display together with your right or left eye, and it’s designed to be affixed to the arm of a pair of eyeglasses. That way, it are often more easily worn during a setting where a worker requires eye protection or by knowledgeable who requires prescription glasses to try to to any work.

“Glass Enterprise Edition 2 is made on Android, so it’s easy for developers to figure with, and for businesses to integrate the services and APIs (application programming interfaces) they already use,” explains Kothari.