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qirex
Feb 15, 2001

Note: Google Glass died on the way back to its home planet

quote:

The fate of Google Glass has been up in the air these past few months, as developers seem to have stopped paying attention to the new-age eyewear and Glasshole sightings have decreased significantly. But Glass isn't done yet: Google's announcing today Glass is "graduating" from the Google X experimental projects incubator to become its own independent division — a division that will report into Nest's Tony Fadell. Current Glass head Ivy Ross will retain day-to-day authority, but she'll report to Fadell. Nest itself will remain separate and independent, and Tony will still be in charge there as well.

"Early Glass efforts have broken ground and allowed us to learn what’s important to consumers and enterprises alike," says Fadell. "I’m excited to be working with Ivy to provide direction and support as she leads the team and we work together to integrate those learnings into future products. I remain fully committed to Nest and am equally excited about our work there, which continues to accelerate."

Growing up means leaving some things behind, though: the Google Glass Explorer program is being shut down after two years, and there's no word on what the next Glass products might look like. Google says the Glass At Work program will carry on, but overall the company isn't giving any timelines on new products.

More broadly, taking over Glass represents the first significant expansion of Fadell's authority since Google bought Nest for $3.2 billion almost exactly a year ago. It always seemed a given that Google would try and make better use of Fadell's hardware expertise — before Nest, Fadell was in charge of the iPod and iPhone projects at Apple — and the troubled Glass project is an interesting place to use his skills to try and crack a new market. (Just think about it: Tony making the HTC- and Motorola-built Nexus phones slightly better won't do a lot, but if he can figure out Glass Google will open up entirely new ways of computing.) If nothing else, it's going to be interesting.

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triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



:firstpost:

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off

quote:

More broadly, taking over Glass represents the first significant expansion of Fadell's authority since Google bought Nest for $3.2 billion almost exactly a year ago.

lol

A Wheezy Steampunk
Jul 16, 2006

High School Grads Eligible!
more like fatdell lol

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
hard to believe google would turn its back on all those people trying to buy glasses for 1500 earth dollers

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
"Early Glass efforts have broken ground and allowed us to learn what’s important to consumers and enterprises alike," says Fadell.

translation: as anyone could predict we spy glass wearers 24/7

Kirk
Sep 22, 2003
as a youth i fantasized about having something like google glass so that i could always be browsing pornography even when i was dragged to bullshit chuch (atheist now...). but as i grow older i realize that i dont really need that anymore and i dont care if people see whats on my tablet. to be in public you need to be an adult, sorry if you cant handle reality

ate shit on live tv
Feb 15, 2004

by Azathoth

Kirk posted:

as a youth i fantasized about having something like google glass so that i could always be browsing pornography even when i was dragged to bullshit chuch (atheist now...). but as i grow older i realize that i dont really need that anymore and i dont care if people see whats on my tablet. to be in public you need to be an adult, sorry if you cant handle reality

Just-In-Timeberlake
Aug 18, 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/01/07/10-bold-predictions-for-2014

shoot all analysts into the sun

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




did someone say glasshole yet

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




welcome to the glasshole club Dur

PuTTY riot
Nov 16, 2002
ground floor

LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop
fadell has been cornered in hopes to make google glass more appealing. google's last hope for glass, but it's impossible

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
someone make a robot that shoots glass wearers on site and because it's a robot it can't be charged with murder and can roam
the streets above the law

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




I'd just emp that fucker with my emp gun :smugmrgw:

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice
countdown to kickstarted/chinesed knockoff

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

more like fatdell lol

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005


"At the beginning of each year, it’s possible to make predictions"

actually you can make them any time at all, lol

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

all of these predictions are retarded as gently caress for wildly varying reasons

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003



absolutely nothing on that list even remotely happened.

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

VR made it really big in like 200?? when everyone wanted to secondlife, and they all realzid the only future for VR is depraved porn

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

that and being like "wow it's just like in neuromancer except not"

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Citizen Tayne posted:

absolutely nothing on that list even remotely happened.

what, you mean you don't have a dna sequencer on your desk for hobbyist gene-tampering? smdh

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

id be mildly happier if the organ thing was fully viable, but

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

gibson's cyberspace was an amazing, glittering megacity

the internet is ugly so rendering it in lifelike 3d isn't going to make it less so

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

i liked the part about default/noob/poor 3d avatars being really low poly and crude

PuTTY riot
Nov 16, 2002

Citizen Tayne posted:

absolutely nothing on that list even remotely happened.

bill gaates made water from poop

Metrication
Dec 12, 2010

Raskin had one problem: Jobs regarded him as an insufferable theorist or, to use Jobs's own more precise terminology, "a shithead who sucks".
ok glass empty my bowels

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

EMILY BLUNTS posted:

i liked the part about default/noob/poor 3d avatars being really low poly and crude

that was snow crash

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

PuTTY riot posted:

bill gaates made water from poop

Blade Runner did not adequately prepare me for this dystopia

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

I liked the part about the crazy guy who would plug himself into empty spaces and just listen for god

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

rotor posted:

that was snow crash

all these cybernovels kind of blur together after a while

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

EMILY BLUNTS posted:

all these cybernovels kind of blur together after a while

same, but cyberposts

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

qirex posted:

I liked the part about the crazy guy who would plug himself into empty spaces and just listen for god

losethos jr

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

I just had a "wow I haven't read snow crash in like forever" moment but then I realized there's a good reason for that

I read the sprawl trilogy every year or two though

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe
3.8 billion for a thermostat

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

Chris Knight posted:

3.8 billion for a thermostat

also a smoke alarm that doesn't work

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
do people use the term cyberlord? they should

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe
even better!

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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
dude you could hire people to live in your house and personally let you know if it caught on fire for less

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