the.com/google glass
the future arrived on your face in 2013, then got beat up in a bar and never came back.
means a wearable computer shaped like eyeglasses that displayed information and took photos via voice command and a tiny prism screen.
from born in google x, the moonshot lab, unveiled with skydivers streaming live video in 2012 and sold to the public in 2013 for 1500 dollars as an explorer edition.
public backlashwearers were mocked as glassholes within months
privacy panicbars and bathrooms banned it outright
pivot to workreborn as enterprise edition for factories in 2017
quiet deathdiscontinued entirely in 2023, twenty years too early
for instance
google glass explorer edition — 2013 launch, invite only, 1500 dollars
glass enterprise edition 2 — 2019 relaunch for warehouse and surgical use
sergey brin skydive — 2012 demo streamed live from a blimp over san francisco