Eric Schmidt Says Glass Isn’t Dead, Google Just Needs Time ’To Make It Ready For Users’
"It is a big and very fundamental platform for Google. We ended the Explorer program and the press conflated this into us canceling the whole project, which isn't true," Schmidt told The Wall Street Journal. "Google is about taking risks and there's nothing about adjusting Glass that suggests we're ending it."
It hasn't been smooth sailing for Glass. The wearable received plenty of criticism from privacy advocates due to the fact that wearers can record video and take photos on the sly. It's been banned from some movie theaters, and police have even written citations to drivers for wearing Glass while driving.
Undeterred, the last we heard about the program's future plans was that Google would release another version of Glass this year, one that will cost less and have a longer battery life, among other improvements.