Googleannounced its Iris AR glassesjust over a year ago, and things have been quiet ever since.
Those specs promised real-time audio transcription, like subtitles for real life.
But now,according to Business Insider, Google has ended the project.
Antonio Cassano of Parma FC wearing Google Glass.Marco Luzzani / Getty Images
The timing seems a little coincidental.
Could it be that Google sawApple’s Vision Promixed reality headset and realized it was nowhere near that level?
Or could it be that they have decided to make a full-on AR headset?
The Vision Pro mixed reality headset.Apple
Then, in one move, Apple redefined how phones would look and work.
Since the iPhone, it’s hard to find anything else.
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The same happened withthe iPad in 2011.
Google AR glasses.Google
After the iPad, they were slim, multitouch slabs of glass with all-day battery life.
And maybe this time, it won’tbrag about the products before they are even near to being ready?
“Google is absolutely working on AR/VR, just not as publicly as before.
Vision Pro Is… Visionary
Before the Vision Pro, we had two kinds of headsets.
The thing that makes Vision Pro revolutionary isthe Spatial Computing part.
Perhaps even more so.
Google will have to start over.
Google is absolutely working on AR/VR, just not as publicly as before.
They have not ditched it.
What Meta doesn’t have isa general-purpose computer operating system, like visionOS.
