Google said Thursday that it has formed a new team to create the next version of its head-worn wearable computer, Google Glass. That takes Glass out of Google X, Google’s home for quirky research, though it keeps former design and marketing executive Ivy Ross in charge of making the often-derided face computer successful.
Ross came to Google in May and already led Glass under Google X, and today’s announcement said nothing about her approach to making Glass a success. But a video of the head of Google X, Astro Teller, at MIT Technology Review’s annual EmTech conference last September offers some clues.
When our Editor in Chief Jason Pontin asked Teller why Ross was the right person to take Glass through its next stage of development, he pointed to her background in the eyewear, fashion, and retail businesses, as well as in jewelry and industrial design.
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