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Re:Google Glass is getting a second life in the manufacturin... by sand500 on Saturday March 18, 2017 @07:15PM (#13904006)
>Mircosoft Hololens is AR as in Augmented Reality while Glass is a UI floating on your face.

Google marketed Glass as AR but it turned out to be just a Floating UI. That is why it failed imo. Hololens is what we were promised for a relatively similar price point.

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Re:Google Glass is getting a second life in the manufacturin... by ocdtrekkie on Saturday March 18, 2017 @07:56PM (#13904168)
To be fair, Google's AR example of Glass was it's marketing concept video, but never shown or advertised as a feature of the released product.
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