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Google to release first smart glasses since Google Glass flop
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More than a decade after its famed Google Glass failure, Google is going to try again with smart glasses.
Key facts
- Google Glass was launched in 2013 but pulled in 2015, seven months after its UK release, after a backlash around price and privacy
- Investor Christine Tsai of 500 Global, an early stage venture capital firm, said Google's re-entry into the glasses space is a positive development
- Developer Anil Shah, who is building an events management app called tixfix
- More than a decade after its famed Google Glass failure, Google is going to try again with smart glasses
Summary
The glasses will go on sale sometime in autumn and feature a small camera in the frames and small speakers in the arms, allowing Google's artificial intelligence (AI) product Gemini to interact with a user. Google revealed the glasses for the first time during its annual developer conference on Tuesday, offering one style designed by Warby Parker and another by Gentle Monster. Google Glass was launched in 2013 but pulled in 2015, seven months after its UK release, after a backlash around price and privacy. The new smart glasses will let a wearer "stay hands free and heads up," according to Shahram Izadi, a Google executive who spoke during Tuesday's event.