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what's up brian Tong here with your weekly serving of google issues for everything google you guys can think of let's get to the show and the latest from eric schmidt is that google isn't giving up on glass they're just going back to the labs now in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal Schmidt emphasized that glass is still a fundamental platform for google even after they shut down their explorer program and brought the project back in-house to be overseen by the head of Google's nest connected home division Tony Fadell now he compared a glass to Google's self-driving cars as a long-term project the head of google x projects Astro teller told an audience at South by Southwest than when the failures of glass with that Google encourage too much attention for the program but they weren't even close to a finished project really let's keep it real Google if glass caught on and actually gained some real traction if consumers were demanding it and developers really supported it with compelling experiences you wouldn't be saying anything like this we know you did everything in your power to promote glass as the next great platform except it wasn't it definitely has some killer uses but privacy issues and the huge social stigmas associated with it really couldn't be overcome so now it's back to the drawing board and that's what really happened also a quick update on Google self-driving car project during a Vancouver TED conference the head of the division said the team is working to launch the project in the market by 2020 Google is also working with GM Ford Volkswagen and Daimler on the self-driving tech and that target year is coincidentally the same as Apple's for their own car project all right android police reports google is rolling out a new smart lock feature called on body detection where it uses the phone's accelerometer to figure out if your device is in your hand or your pocket and locks it when it's not so if you left it at a table or forgot it somewhere your phone will auto lock it appears to be a slow rollout on devices running the most recent Play services and it's showing up on non-nexus hardware running five point 0 or higher as and since we're talking phone hardware a new report from Korea's eated a says Google is looking for LG to manufacture the next Nexus phone google engineers are said to have met with LG execs earlier this month and we know Motorola handle the Nexus 6 LG helped with the four and five and HTC built the original nexus one so this is common for Google to bounce between manufacturers we also know smartwatches are getting a big push with the latest iterations of Android wear products and apples watch coming soon so Google has pushed out this wear what you want video to showcase all the different Android wear watches that are out there it's colorful and fun but Android wear is making big moves with the recent announcement that they'll partner with tag heuer and intel to create a SmartWatch version of one of tags most popular models the carrera now they didn't give too many specifics but the watch will be a digital replica of the original tag heuer black carrera tag CEO jean-claude be there welcome the launch of the Apple watch and said Apple get young people used to wearing a watch and later maybe they will want to buy themselves a real watch and that's what we call a dig alright google invested 542 million dollars in virtual reality startup magic leap last year and the group is reportedly hard at work on an augmented reality headset this video could be a glimpse of what we can expect ranging from doing things like checking your gmail to play in a first-person shooter game in the office and yes it's purely conceptual right now but even with something like microsoft's hololens this type of stuff is becoming more real and once these platforms exist its developers that are going to make them shine alright that's going to do it for this week's show you can always email us at google issues at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong thanks watch it will see you guys next time for some more of that Google Isha's do you Lucius