Google Glass: From Skydiving Hype to Glassholes to the Operating Room

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In June 2012, skydivers jumped from a blimp over San Francisco and streamed their descent live to the Moscone Center through the glasses on their faces. Google Glass had arrived. Born in the Google X lab, the 2011 prototype weighed eight pounds. A year later it was a 36 gram titanium frame with a prism that floated a display in the wearer's view, a bone conduction speaker, and a voice command woken by tilting the head 30 degrees and saying OK Glass.

This episode follows what happened when that hardware met the public. Google sold it through a contest, charging 8,000 winners $1,500 each for the Explorer Edition and fitting them in person at pop-up shops. The exclusivity bred resentment, and the always-ready camera bred fear. Bars, casinos, and movie theaters banned it, and wearers earned a new insult. Consumer sales ended in January 2015, yet the device quietly found work in hospitals and factories.

In February 2014 a woman wearing Glass in a San Francisco bar said she was attacked and had the device ripped from her face by patrons who assumed she was recording.
University of Massachusetts researchers showed Glass could steal passcodes by tracking the shadows of fingers typing on a phone.
A driving simulator study found Glass users were cognitively impaired even when not actively using the display.
Augmedix used Glass to stream doctor visits to remote scribes, saving physicians up to 15 hours a week of record keeping.
An Australian trial let lactation consultants see a new mother's point of view from as far as 3,500 kilometers away. Google ended enterprise sales in March 2023.

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