{"id":250202,"date":"2026-05-20T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/android-boss-reveals-the-unsurprising-reason-google-glass-ended-up-in-the-tech-graveyard\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:25:20","slug":"android-boss-reveals-the-unsurprising-reason-google-glass-ended-up-in-the-tech-graveyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/android-boss-reveals-the-unsurprising-reason-google-glass-ended-up-in-the-tech-graveyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Android boss reveals the unsurprising reason Google Glass ended up in the tech graveyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-admits-glass-fashion-failure-3669108\/\">Android boss reveals the unsurprising reason Google Glass ended up in the tech graveyard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-admits-glass-fashion-failure-3669108\/\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-admits-glass-fashion-failure-3669108\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 06:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidauthority.com\">www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lanh Nguyen \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Google executive recently admitted that Google Glass failed because it lacked a fashion appeal.<\/li>\n<li>Sameer Samat, president of the Android ecosystem, said, \u201cfashion comes first,\u201d and that it\u2019s more important than technology.<\/li>\n<li>Google has now partnered with eyewear brands Warby Parker and Gentle Monster to make its upcoming smart glasses look trendy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At I\/O 2026, Google gave us a preview of how its upcoming Android XR glasses could make our lives easier. For anyone who\u2019s followed Google\u2019s announcement for slightly more than a decade, the announcement may have summoned a sense of nostalgia. That\u2019s because Google first previewed its smart glass solution at I\/O 13 years ago. Even if you don\u2019t remember, Android\u2019s chief does, and they\u2019re grateful for what it taught them.<\/p>\n<p>Sameer Samat, president of the Android ecosystem at Google, recently spoke to members of the media, including Korea\u2019s Yonhap News, after the Google I\/O 2026 conference yesterday. While discussing the new Android XR devices Google showcased at the event yesterday, Samat spoke of the lessons Google learned from its failed Glass project from the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>The executive said the biggest lesson from the lack of commercial acceptance for Google Glass was that fashion outweighs technological appeal.<\/p>\n<p>I learned a lot. The most important thing I learned is that fashion comes first, technology comes second.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what we\u2019re also seeing with the massive appeal of the Meta Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses. According to industry analysts\u2019 estimates, Meta has likely sold over 7 million units of its smart glasses since their introduction in 2023. That is despite the fact that Meta\u2019s technology does not necessarily feel superior to what Google is expected to offer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_rg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png\"\/><img class=\"e_rg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>They added that Samsung played a pivotal role in artfully combining fashion and technology. Meanwhile, information about the internals&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-admits-glass-fashion-failure-3669108\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android boss reveals the unsurprising reason Google Glass ended up in the tech graveyard https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-admits-glass-fashion-failure-3669108\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Google-IO-2025-Android-XR-Glasses-Protoype-seen-from-front.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,86],"class_list":["post-250202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250204,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250202\/revisions\/250204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}