| Google Glass replacement project leader |
| Google today announced on its blog that they have graduated from the Google X labs, and will operate as an independent division within Google under the leadership of Ivy Ross. According to CBC reports, Ivy Ross will report directly to the NEST CEO Tony Fadell. In the blog, Google just said that the end of the Explorer Program, Google Glass in the direction of Industrial Research (such as in hospitals, factories) will continue to go on. At the same time, Google in January 19th to stop selling Google Glass to individual users, and those who are still working as a certified developer can still buy the device. However, throughout the blog, Google did not mention the next generation of Google Glass product specific plans. After closing the Explorer Developer program, they will focus on the development of the next generation of products. In a recent interview, Google X director Astro Teller said, chose Ivy Ross Google as head of Glass, because she is in glasses and jewelry fashion sense, industrial design and commercial market experience, she will be in someone's cooperation, to create a new product form Google Glass. And now, there is no doubt that someone refers to the Tony product was responsible for iPod Fadell. Before this, Google Glass attracted a lot of negative comments, or even banned in some public places, Google has to be at the beginning of last year launched a "user manual". I do not know in Ivy Ross and Tony Fadell together, the next generation of products how to reverse the disappointment of Google Glass to the user. |