Amazon wants to put Alexa on a pair of normal-looking smart glasses next, rumor has it

Amazon's consumer hardware ambitions could expand from tablets and smart speakers to smart glasses soon, all powered by the Alexa voice assistant.

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Google Glass Enterprise Edition is real, official and already in use at 50+ companies

The consumer-centric part of the "moonshot" is still on hold, at the very least, but the long-rumored Google Glass Enterprise Edition is quickly spreading.

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Google Glass is dead and kicking, getting random software updates after years of radio silence

No, we don't think Google Glass is coming back from the dead, but for whatever reason, the wearable device is still software supported.

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Unfazed by the Google Glass flop, Apple is reportedly considering its own AR smart glasses

With tablets pretty much hanging by a thread nowadays, traditional PCs stagnating after a free fall from mainstream popularity, smartphones heading for their first ever decline, and smartwatches still seeking that compelling use case, Apple is left wondering what the industry’s “next big thing” might be.

Self-driving cars? Autonomous virtual reality headsets? How about AR-based smart glasses? That latter concept is reportedly worth a revisit and second R&D try following Google’s monumental failure of getting it off the ground, sealed just last year.

Google Glass, or Project Glass, was very enthusiastically received by “explorers” back in 2013, but privacy and safety concerns, not to mention battery life shortcomings and, well, a decidedly douchey design ultimately killed the oh-so-full-of-promise wearable initiative.

Since then, many tech veterans and big fishes showed interest in VR hardware and software rather than AR, including El Goog, Samsung, HTC, Sony and Facebook. Not Microsoft though, which remains invested in mixed reality HoloLens gear powered by the Windows Holographic platform, while Apple is likely still in the early stages of any sort of development in this field.

Don’t expect an advanced Apple Glass prototype to be outed before 2018 therefore, and like other projects in Cupertino “exploration” and careful consideration, a pivot, pause or altogether cancellation are always possible.

As for what the product may do if it ever materializes, all we know is it would probably “connect wirelessly to iPhones, show images and other information in the wearer’s field of vision”, as well as “use augmented reality” technology… somehow. That’s certainly vague but also arguably intriguing.

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Snapchat Spectacles, because we all loved Google Glass

Update: Spectacles.com is live and details some of the features of the product, including that Android phones will be connected via Wi-Fi while iPhones will be connected through Bluetooth. Clips as long as 30 seconds can be recorded.The Wall Street Journal combined a feature on Snapchat‘s sharp millennial CEO, Evan Spiegel, and the empire he has built with a new product peg. A hardware peg, to be precise.Despite what many consider

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Presumed Google Glass successor for enterprise can be yours if you win this eBay auction

Nostalgic about the ingenious but highly controversial and ultimately discontinued Google Glass optical head-mounted display? Literally can’t wait to see what the new Project Aura spawns in the way of a consumer-targeted sequel?Chances are an intermediate Enterprise spin-off is ...

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Google Glass exits all social media channels, signaling imminent rebranding

Google Glass is dead, long live Project Aura! Of course, the latter isn’t a final, commercial name, much like the new augmented reality device currently being worked on behind closed doors is a long way from completion.Well, maybe not that long, based on

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Zeiss Smart Optics Hands-On (Video)

These smart glasses will not get you kicked out of a theater. At least immediately.Carl Zeiss makes glass for cameras big and small (think Lumia) and has been doing so for time eternal. But it’s 2016 and in the world of interconnected thingamajiggers with the slow-moving elephant of 

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Will the next-gen Google Glass flex to fit your head?

The grand experiment that was the original Google Glass may have come and gone, but work continues behind the scenes on a next-gen wearable that could finally help Google realize its head-mounted tech dream. We’ve already a heard a bit about where Google sees Glass going next, as well as the new Project Aura home for future development, but so far details haven’t revealed a ton as to what we can actually expect from the hardware. One recent rumor suggested

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Google Glass future prototypes include model without a screen

Google Glass is one of those products that was definitely cool, up until we learned of its crazy price tag. Surely a few people here and there were willing to invest $1,500 on a unit, but the whole purpose of the product wore off as quick as users begun to notice that it was too little product for too much money. As a result Google has decided to re-think this concept through its new Project Aura, and today we ...

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Google Glass is now Project Aura, as former Amazon employees join the program

Released to the public a little prematurely, even for a work in progress, aka Explorer Edition, Google Glass encountered a number of bumps in the road to mainstream popularity, and as such, was predictably halted early this year.But the ingenious headset’s creators insisted the end of the first Google Glass iteration wouldn’t be the death of the entire futuristic wearable ...

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Hangin’ with Dr. Cooper: an interview with “the father of the cellphone”

We’ve given him our reverence more than once around here. But it’s another thing to sit down and talk with the man who made the smartphone possible. The man who –with the help of some very talented teams– made the cellular phone possible. The man who essentially made this site, our work and your thoughts on all of it possible. And our own Michael Fisher had the privilege of doing just that.Dr. Martin Cooper, born in Chicago in 1928, graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1950. He left his first job out of school at Teletype Corporation (which would soon get ...

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New Google Glass may not be consumer-ready for at least another year

Google Glass is in the middle of a transition period. After its very public test run with the Glass Explorer Edition, Google took its vision for the wearable back to the drawing board, and has been working on a new Glass experience – one with new hardware, as well as (presumably) new software. We’ve been checking out evidence of this Glass headset over the past several weeks, while hearing rumors that the new Glass could be positioned as an Enterprise Edition

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Google Glass Enterprise Edition tipped to get folding design

Google Glass is still moving forward, even after the initial hardware failed to find broad mainstream success, and we’ve been looking forward to the introduction of a new Glass headset at some point later this year; we’ve certainly seen FCC evidence that appeared to confirm work on that very project. Now some new rumors have been ...

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Google FCC docs might just point to new Glass hardware

Google Glass managed to get plenty of people excited, and for good reason. Far more than smartwatches, the tech seemed practically right out of science fiction, yet here Google was not just developing it, but giving the public a chance to experience it for themselves. While the original Glass momentum may have seriously slowed down (publicly, at least) since its heyday, work on the project has continued, and we’ve heard that

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