Google stops selling its biz-grade augmented reality specs - The Register

Google has halted sales of its business-grade augmented reality specs, the Glass Enterprise Edition.

Even the Meet on Glass vid-chat app Google pre-installed on the devices won't be supported.

The Register supposes the product wasn't sufficiently profitable, or widely used, for the ads and search giant to keep it alive at a time it's ejected 12,000 workers.

But the world's most prominent use of the tech – the US Army's plan to deploy thousands of HoloLens devices – has experienced delays and had its funding pulled by Congress after it failed user acceptance testing when soldiers became physically ill using it.

Maybe Meta's Oculus is up to the job: as of two years ago Zuckerberg's baby had hit Google's target of ten million headset sales.

And the artist formerly known as Facebook continues to sink billions into metaverse research, even as it fires over 20,000 workers.