Google reportedly cancels 'Project Iris' augmented reality smart glasses2023-06-28 18:08 by Daniela
Google reportedly won't be moving forward with plans to release a new pair of augmented reality glasses. Development efforts have been abandoned after a wave of layoffs and company restructuring, according to a recent report from Business Insider, which cited three sources who declined to be named. In January 2022, The Verge revealed details about Project Iris describing it as resembling ski goggles. However, Google employees clarified that the ski goggles were a separate AR project that was later announced as a partner product with Samsung. The actual Project Iris is a series of devices that more closely resembles eyeglasses. The remainder of Google's AR Labs division will move on to developing the software platform that'll power future XR devices - XR is the catch-all term for AR and VR - like the upcoming Samsung XR headset and XR headsets from other companies. Given that headsets like the upcoming Meta Quest 3 - and existing Meta Quest headsets - run on custom versions of Android, Google's own platform has already proven to be a boon for the XR industry. This new "micro XR" platform, as it's being called right now, could very well deliver the same experiences we saw at Google I/O 2022. The difference is that Google won't be the one making the hardware, just the underlying operating system. Read more -here-
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