article_snippet: Google stopped selling the first version of Glass and shut Google Explorer program in January, moving the project out of Google Google X research lab into a standalone unit.
article_snippet: The previous Google Glass headset was launched in a beta version under the firm's Explorer programme.
article_snippet: the firm's Explorer programme gave software developers the chance to buy Glass for $1,500 (£990), and was launched in the US in 2013, and the UK last summer.
article_snippet: Google announced Google was killing off the current version of Google Glass headset (pictured) last month.
article_snippet: Google Glass headset was launched in a beta version under the firm's Explorer programme.
article_snippet: the firm's Explorer programme gave developers the chance to buy Glass (pictured) for $1,500 (£990), and launched in the US in 2013 .
article_snippet: the Glass team kept on it, and when it started to come together, the Glass team began the Glass Explorer Program as a kind of 'open beta' to hear what people had to say.'
highlights_snippet: Google killed off the current version of Google Glass headset in January .
  