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The Future of Wearable Tech Glasses: Are They Coming Back?

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Wes O'Donnell
Jan 26, 2020
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In 2013, the semi-secret research and development facility Google X started selling a prototype of Google Glass. This wearable device was arguably the world’s first supplemental reality “smart eyeglasses.”

The glasses allowed users to perform a number of applications. Those uses included accessing Google Maps, translation services, Gmail, photo manipulat…

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