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Google doesn’t sell headsets anymore — but its app store is getting ready for them


Is Google nearly back in the face computer game?

None of this means Google would necessarily release its own headsets again — but despite having heavily trimmed its AR/ VR division, the company continues to make moves in the space. Those include the “micro XR” platform it’s building and wants to license to headset makers, partnerships for new Samsung mixed-reality smart glasses, and a mysterious Magic Leap deal. But there is also that unreleased Google AR glasses prototype that made a brief cameo during the company’s I/O conference earlier this year.

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