Google Glass goes dark on social media - CNET

Remember Google Glass? Well, Google would apparently rather you didn't.

The tech titan last weekend erased all the social media channels dedicated to its $1,500 smart specs, which it stopped selling in January 2015. Google Glass wearers, or Explorers as they are known, are left with only a support page bearing a phone number and email address.

At the heart of the Glass community was the Glass Explorers group on Google+. This is where Google execs posted point-of-view videos of themselves jumping on trampolines and of models wearing Glass at New York Fashion Week. The page remains, but all content has been wiped. The Glass presence on Facebook and Twitter have been deleted completely.

Glass wearers may have been harmless early adopters keen to get their hands on new technology, but they also caused problems wherever they went. The main objections to the camera-equipped device were privacy-related, with many conceed about hacking, surreptitious photography and filming. The device was also banned from many movie theaters due to conces about piracy.

Glass and its wearers may have been the butt of many jokes thanks to its rather ungainly design, but that doesn't mean this is the end of Google smart glasses. Appearances suggest it has given up on the Glass name, but that doesn't mean it has given up on the concept. The Mountain View, Califoia, company is known to be working on a new version of its face-mounted technology, with photos of a new prototype appearing online last December.