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Business Wars Daily

Google Glass Returns--with New, Clearer Vision

Business Wars Daily

Wondery

News, Daily News, Business News, Business

4.6716 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Today is Thursday, May 30, and we’re looking at Google vs. Microsoft.

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One, three. From Wondry.

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I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Thursday, May 30th.

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Hey, remember Google Glass?

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Back in 2013, Google announced it had created a revolutionary product, an augmented reality headset, a wearable computer with the power to change the world.

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Alphabet, Google's parent company, launched Google Glass with all the fanfare one would

1:26.4

expect of a company racing into

1:28.4

the future. Time magazine called the soon-to-be-released Glass one of the best innovations of the year,

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and then the glass shattered. The glasses were expensive and buggy, and they solved a problem

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how to wear a computer on your face that no one had. Furthermore,

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glass featured a tiny video camera right there in the lens prompting privacy concerns. The

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glass quickly became the object of ridicule. It was parodied on The Simpsons and the Daily Show.

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