New Delhi: Even as the sales of the debut version of Google Glass-the controversial wearable gadget- have been stalled for now, Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has said that the company isn't abandoning the project.
Google had stopped selling its hi-tech Internet-connected eyeglass and shut down its Explorer program earlier this year and moved the experimental project into a standalone unit.
With speculations rising that the search giant may quit pursuing the ambitious project, Schmidt told The Wall Street Journal that the product has now been put under Tony Fadell, head of Google's Nest connected home division, "to make it ready for users."
The chairman said that the technology that goes behind the device is too fundamental to be scrapped. He said that closing the Explorer program doesn't mean that the company was abandoning the project.
Schmidt reiterated that like Google's self-driving car, Google Glass is also a long-term project.
The Google Glass has been embroiled into controversies even before landing into consumers' hands. Privacy advocates and security analysts have pointed to major loopholes in the product that allegedly invades people's privacy as only the wearer knows what is being recorded or captured on the device.
The Wall Street Journal report stated that work on the new and improved version of the device will happen behind the scenes.
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