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Google has decided to abandon the project in which he invested several years of work to manufacture augmented reality glasses. The glasses were known internally under the code name Iris and were discontinued earlier this year due to a series of mass layoffs, staff restructurings, and the departure of AR/VR head Clay Bavor.
The Verge portal first reported on the Iris project in January 2022, describing the device as a pair of ski goggles. However, Google employees claim that these ski goggles were actually part of an independent augmented reality project, which was later announced as a Samsung-associated product.
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Google had plans to develop and release Iris as its own product. But since the cancellation of the project, Google has focused on creating augmented reality software platforms, with the intention of licensing them to other eyewear makers. According to Business Insider, the company is working on developing an Android Extended Reality (XR) platform for Samsung glasses, and they have also been developing a micro XR platform.
Employees working on the micro XR software use an in-house prototyping platform called Betty. One employee described Google’s new vision as “Android for Augmented Reality,” focusing more on software than hardware. Google employees described Samsung’s glasses as a direct response to concerns about what Apple is developing.
Source: Elcomercio
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