Google's Smart Glasses From Failure to New Hope

By:Mia Published 2024-05-17T14:46:38Z

TapTechNews May 17th, according to reports from BusinessInsider and CNET, Google co-founder Sergey Brin talked about smart glasses-related topics in an interview after this year's Google I/O conference ended.

Sergey Brin said that the mysterious glasses product ProjectAstra shown this time is the 'perfect hardware' for AI glasses. 'This is interesting because it's like the perfect hardware, it's like the killer application in ten years.'

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TapTechNews note: Sergey Brin first demonstrated Google Glass at the 2012 Google I/O conference, provided it to some testers in 2013, and started wide-scale sales in 2014 with a price of $1,500. This glasses can be controlled by voice commands or the touch area on the side, used to send text messages, take pictures and videos.

Reports said that this glasses is a failed product mainly due to its lack of a 'killer' application, and users also complained about its short battery life, poor camera quality, and low voice recognition accuracy.

In response, Sergey Brin said in an interview, 'Unfortunately, we got the timing wrong. I really wish the timing could be better grasped.' He believes that smart glasses products are necessary in many scenarios: 'For example, when you are cooking or doing sports, if you still have to hold a mobile phone in your hand, it would be too awkward!'

At this year's Google I/O Developer Conference, Google announced and demonstrated the ProjectAstra project and unexpectedly showed an AR glasses. In the video demonstration, the demonstrator asked Gemini: 'Do you remember where you saw my glasses?', and Gemini's answer was: 'Yes, I remember. Your glasses are on the table, next to the Apple.'