The Federal Communications Commission has just become the unwitting source of leaked news on the Google Glass platform. Alphabet Inc.'s Google Glass 2.0, as shown in the FCC website's images, display noticeable changes from its earlier version. Among these are frame foldability, relocation of the power button to the back of the device, redesign of the speaker as internal, new port for charging, 5GHz Wi-Fi support and an automatic camera light that switches on during recording.What The Glass prism is somewhat larger in size.
Originally, Google Glass was designed to be a consumer device. While the general feedback is that such technology is still too advanced, thereby unnecessary for the general population, it also came across a barrage of criticisms in its earlier outing, which interestingly focused more on form - i.e., conspicuousness, form - rather than function. Google X's Astro Teller, who led the Google Glass project shares some precious insight in relation to the project:
"[Glass] was one of those things that we had to get out into the world as soon as possible. We learned a lot of things about the tech, like the battery. It was also valuable for social testing, and I'm really grateful for all of the fearless pioneers who went on that adventure with us."
"Google X has been good at going out into the world with its projects as early as it can. If you want to make a ton of progress, you have to make a ton of mistakes."
"If you're not failing at least some of the time, you could be learning faster. It's not about going out and not having these bumps and scrapes, it's about getting full value from them."
What is good about this leak is the fact the Google Glass is still evolving and at some point Alphabet may just get Glass right. As the Enterprise version that the company promised, the technology has more invaluable potentials.
