Whatever the official line, Google Glass is dead.
The search giant may be claiming that it is simply stopping selling the Explorer Edition of its smart specs and the team working on is just moving out of its blue sky X Labs to develop a successor under their own steam.
But orders will no longer be taken from the end of the week and while Glass development will be ongoing, whatever the product becomes, it won’t be getting a consumer release this year.
When it first launched, Google Glass was heralded as a kooky but cool vision of the future, a handy way to see a virtual world layered over everyday reality.
But fast forward two years and it’s easy to see why Google had to make such a bold move.