Google co-founder Sergey Brin admits to ‘errors’ over Google Glass

Earlier than augmented actuality was ever a factor, there was Google Glass: a a lot hyped experiment that was in the end a failure over points like privateness (and simply wanting like a dork). At an I/O session yesterday with Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis, Google co-founder Sergey Brin admitted that he made “errors” with Google Glass in a number of areas.

“I simply did not know something about shopper digital provide chain chains, actually, and the way arduous it might be to construct that and have it it at an inexpensive worth level and managing all of the manufacturing and so forth,” he stated throughout the session.

Brin stated that he is nonetheless a believer within the kind issue, although, including that Xreal’s latest device seems like “regular glasses” with out “that factor in entrance.” He famous that relatively than going it alone as earlier than, Google now has “nice companions” in Samsung (the Mission Moohan headset) and Xreal (Mission Aura glasses) as a part of the Android XR prolonged actuality program.

There was additionally a “expertise hole” when Google Glass got here alongside in 2013 that now not exists, in line with Brin. “Now within the AI world, the issues that these glasses can do that can assist you out with out continuously distracting you, that functionality is far larger,” he stated

Google Glass wasn’t a whole flop. It is simple to neglect that the product soldiered on for a few years after its debut, largely as an enterprise system, and was solely fully discontinued in 2023. It additionally paved a path for future VR and AR wearables just like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Meta Quest and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Come to consider it, although, none of these initiatives have precisely set the world on hearth, both.