Google co-founder Sergey Brin admits to ‘err...

Earlier than augmented actuality was ever a factor, there was Google Glass: a a lot hyped experiment that was finally a failure over points like privateness (and simply trying 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 client digital provide chain chains, actually, and the way onerous 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 mentioned in the course of the session.

Brin mentioned that he is nonetheless a believer within the type 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 Venture Moohan headset) and Xreal (Venture Aura glasses) as a part of the Android XR prolonged actuality program.

There was additionally a “know-how hole” when Google Glass got here alongside in 2013 that now not exists, in keeping with Brin. “Now within the AI world, the issues that these glasses can do that will help you out with out always distracting you, that functionality is way increased,” he mentioned

Google Glass wasn’t a whole flop. It is easy 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 fireplace, both.