Sales halted

The company says the Explorer program will close and it will stop taking orders for the product but it says it will continue to support companies that are using Glass. Google insists it is still committed to launching the smart glasses as a consumer product, saying it will focus on “future versions of Glass” with work carried out by a different division to before.

The Glass team will also move out of the Google X division and become a separate undertaking, under Ivy Ross.