Google co-founder explains one of the company’s most infamous failures

Google Glass, which launched in 2013, was a brand of smart glasses that enabled users to view and navigate through notifications and other smart phone functions projected in front of them. — Photo by Adarsh Chauhan on Unsplash

During a talk at Stanford for the engineering school’s centennial year, Google and Alphabet Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin recalled why Google Glass failed. He was joined onstage by Stanford president Jonathan Levin and Dean Jennifer Widom.

Google Glass, which launched in 2013, was a brand of smart glasses that enabled users to view and navigate through notifications and other smart phone functions projected in front of them. It was a breakthrough moment, but Google discontinued the product for the general consumer just a couple years later in 2015.