Google X boss says company should have curbed Glass hype


WORK IN PROGESS: Google did not emphasise that its wearable glass was merely a prototype and not a finished product.

The Internet company did not do enough to make clear that the US$1,500 (RM5,552) computer that mounts to a pair of eyeglasses was merely a prototype and not a finished product, Google’s Astro Teller said during a talk at the South by Southwest Initiative conference in Austin.

“We allowed and sometimes even encouraged too much attention for the programme,” said Teller, whose official title at Google is Captain of Moonshots, during a talk that focused on how his group has learned from some of its failures.

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