Google Glass largely went off sale to consumers in 2015, and Google has since been focusing on how the headset could be useful for businesses and deve

Google Glass Enterprise Edition is no more

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2023-03-16 00:00:16

Google Glass largely went off sale to consumers in 2015, and Google has since been focusing on how the headset could be useful for businesses and developers. But even those efforts have come to an end. The company is no longer selling Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2, Google spokesperson Patrick Seybold told The Verge. A help document spotted by 9to5Google says the company will end support for the AR headset on September 15th.

According to the company, the devices should still work after that date, but it’s not planning on releasing any software updates. The support cutoff also extends to the built-in Meet app and repair service. “The app may stop working at any time after September 15, 2023,” warns Google’s support page, before saying that “Google will continue to replace devices under the existing process” until that date.

The Glass Enterprise Edition 2 was announced in 2019 and sold for $999. The company pitched it as a way to give people working in medical, agricultural, and factory settings a heads-up display that would feed them information while keeping their hands free. It hasn’t had the cultural impact that the $1,500 consumer-focused Glass Explorer Edition did, but it added to a buzzing sense that augmented and mixed reality were the next best thing. That was around the time that Magic Leap was showing off and promoting its headset and when we were catching glimpses of Microsoft’s military-focused Hololens.