On the heels of yesterday’s announcement that Glass was headed to the UK, Google today announced that it is bringing some hardware and software upgrades to Glass. Given that the smartglasses remains in beta, albeit an extended one now, it can continue to collect feedback from its users to make improvements before it is ready for an eventual consumer release.
The Explorer Program has been an exciting ride, and as a result of your feedback, we’ve picked up the pace on making more improvements. In the last year we’ve made over a dozen software and several hardware updates. For example, we’ve improved battery life by over 20%, made voice search 10% faster and brought you frames, shades and prescription support. With I/O about to kick off, we wanted to share some of the most recent improvements we’ll be rolling out.
On the hardware side, Google Glass will see its RAM doubled to 2GB to improve performance On the software side, the company is adding a new viewfinder to better frame pictures (“OK glass, show the viewfinder”) and two new Google Now cards to let you find your parked car and track your shipments.
According to The Verge, Google has decided not to exchange old Glass headsets for new ones for current Glass Explorers. As you would expect, the news has not been well received by early adopters.
Google did not provide a time frame as to when it would push out the latest software update to Google Glass but that information may come out over the course of the next two days at Google I/O 2014.
Sources : +GoogleGlass // The Verge