Google Glass, prototype model never announced to more than $ 7,000 on eBay

The news of a new Google Glass model aimed at the enterprise industry is certainly not new. Google has never announced publicly this model although it is said to have worked with some startup Google for Work on some hardware revisions of the smart glasses. According to reports the company has been working in recent years on a new model, the Enterprise Edition (EE), direct successor of the first prototype sold to the public and known as Explorer Edition (XE).

The Google Glass Enterprise Edition had appeared in late 2015 under the FCC certification and later in a patent document of the company. The company would have to work for about two years on this project although it has never confirmed to the public. Excluding FCC certification, the product has made its first appearance on the network only last weekend in an ad sales on the famous portal of e-commerce and auction site eBay.

The device should have big improvements hardware side than the first model. Inside the bar there should be an Intel Atom processor, which should ensure better performance, higher energy efficiency and a more effective thermal management, as well as support the 5GHz band for Wi-Fi. The device should be more robust and suitable for use in a professional environment thanks to the introduction of a chassis resistant to intrusion of liquids and dust.

On an aesthetic level, there are no very great upheavals, as indeed we also see on the photos published in the advertisement. Among the new features we find an LED that illuminates when the camera is active, a new port for charging, and a massive prism for the "display". The new Glass should also support a magnetic latching external battery pack to increase the operating time of the device and make it finally compatible for prolonged use.

Although the ad represents a new confirmation of the device, the future of Google Glass is still uncertain today. Google had launched the ambitious project believing it a lot, however once distributed the first Explorer Edition users have reported the pros and cons of the solution: useful in certain professional fields, the success of Google Glass was undermined by operational autonomy well below expectations and too limited versatility.

Not many developers have believed in the project, with Google Glass who had not then many destinations of use for the end user. The project was thus entrusted to Tony Fadell, iPod creator and founder of Nest, in which the task of creating a completely new version of the smart glasses was given. There is of course a lot of curiosity around the prototype appeared on eBay (avvistat0 primarily by a Google+ user): at the time of writing the auction has reached $ 7,200, and there are still two days to the listing ends.